First recorded instance of someone cosplaying a TSA agent?First recorded instance of someone cosplaying a TSA agent?
A new Last Kiss (starring a Roger Moore lookalike)—by Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Art Cappello & Sal Gentile from the cover of Romantic Story #121, Aug. 1972. (No link to the original comic this time. Sorry.)
Transcript:
LOGO (1940s style): The Adventures of…TESSIE THE TSA AGENT
TESSIE: Are you…you are wearing some kind of girdle!
TESSIE: Hey, Bruno! Got a strip search for you!
TESSIE: And while you’re at it…
TESSIE: ..take a few photos for me!
1972 Art: Art Cappello & Sal Gentile
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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LOGO (1940s style): TESSIE THE TSA AGENT
TESSIE: Are you...you are wearing some kind of girdle!
TESSIE: Hey, Bruno! Got a strip search for you!
TESSIE: And while you’re at it...
TESSIE: ..take a few photos for me!
1972 Art: Art Cappello & Sal Gentile
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
LOGO (1940s style): TESSIE THE TSA AGENT
TESSIE: Are you...you are wearing some kind of girdle!
TESSIE: Hey, Bruno! Got a strip search for you!
TESSIE: And while you’re at it...
TESSIE: ..take a few photos for me!
1972 Art: Art Cappello & Sal Gentile
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
His hair completely turns me off
“Bryl-CREAM, a little dab’ll do ya…”
No, that is definitely hair spray or mousse. Brylcreme is too 50s and did not become a helmet.
On the plus side, I understand that his hair is impervious to both wind and bullets.
At first glance (revised) they look like fraternal twin tag team televangelists.
The 70’s styles. Both gone and, hopefully, forgotten.
Hardly forgotten. But let’s try!
All this and a full figure portrait poster of David Cassidy!