by John | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Young African-American woman looking up at a night sky.
CAPTION: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
--Maya Angelou
Image modified from aphoto by Jessica Felicio
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by John | Jun 16, 2024 | Blog
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Closeup of a worried looking tabby cat.
CAT: Of course you should get the dog neutered! But not me...‘Cause I’m gay! So, so gay!
Art: A.I. Magic Feline Friend: John Lustig
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by John | Jun 15, 2024 | Blog
Happy Father’s Day!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Lou Fine. From The Ray story in Smash Comics #26, Sept. 1941. Published by Quality Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: We see Bucky--a young, red-headed boy--in front of a sky scene. In the background we see the silhouette of a stork delivering a baby.
BUCKY: Thanks, Dad! Mom says, if you hadn’t made the stork visit her...she’d have married Uncle Jack! And I’d be my own cousin!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Proud Papa: John Lustig
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by John | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A zillion kids (several carrying American flags) are in a field Uncle Sam. Together they are fighting a terrorist or criminal gang. Each of the gang members are wearing leather jackets with a skull and cross bones insignia on the back.
CAPTION: National Comics #9 10 cents.
CAPTION: A Typical Flag Day in Comic Books!
CAPTION: Patriotism: It’s not for wimps!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Flag Pole Polisher: John Lustig
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by John | Jun 11, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art attributed to John Celardo from the Tiger Man story in Rangers Comics #30, August 1946. Published by Fiction House.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Very fit, heavily-muscled man who looks like a bodybuilder is standing on the beach.
CAPTION: After working out for two hours straight, the world’s strongest man suddenly realizes…
MAN: That’s too much straight for me!
1946 Art: John Celardo Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
In Great Shape--Someday: John Lustig
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