Happy Halloween!
And many thanks to my pal Mike Pascale for the ghastly—I mean—great gag and the amazing art transformation!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “A Moment to Remember” in FIRST KISS #21, 1962. Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A female ghoul and a male ghoul talking outside—perhaps in a graveyard!
CAPTION: Gertie was the talk of the graveyard! Everyone said she was a real man-eater! But, alas for poor Ed, he wasn’t much of a man anymore!
MALE GHOUL: Don’t you want to be my ghoulfriend?
FEMALE GHOUL: Sorry, I…I think we should eat other people!
1961 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
Monster Makers: Mike Pascale & John Lustig
21.1.3.3_MP_Halloween2022
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SCENE: A female ghoul and a male ghoul talking outside---perhaps in a graveyard!
CAPTION: Gertie was the talk of the graveyard! Everyone said she was a real man-eater! But, alas for poor Ed, he wasn’t much of a man anymore!
MALE GHOUL: Don’t you want to be my ghoulfriend?
FEMALE GHOUL: Sorry, I…I think we should eat other people!
1961 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
Monster Makers: Mike Pascale & John Lustig
21.1.3.3_MP_Halloween2022
CAPTION: Gertie was the talk of the graveyard! Everyone said she was a real man-eater! But, alas for poor Ed, he wasn’t much of a man anymore!
MALE GHOUL: Don’t you want to be my ghoulfriend?
FEMALE GHOUL: Sorry, I…I think we should eat other people!
1961 Art: Vince Colletta Studio
Monster Makers: Mike Pascale & John Lustig
21.1.3.3_MP_Halloween2022
“For Heaven Sakes Jan…What did I do?”
“You…You’re a truck driver!”
“Oh! HA HA! You’re so silly! See, when I said I have a Big Rig, what I meant was…”
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So she’s upset because he has a job?!?
And the Winner for Dumbest Ass Character in a First Kiss story is…
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To be fair, she has truck related trauma related to her last boyfriend…
…His pet name for her was “Wide Load”…
…The first time they tried Reverse Cowgirl, he suddenly yelled out, “Don’t forget to go “Beep Beep” so any pedestrians know you’re about to back up!”…
…He refused to take her jogging because her shorts didn’t come with mud flaps…
…when they were driving on the highway, and they came to a bridge with a low clearance sign on it, he’d ask her how tall she was again.