Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia from the story “Don’t Lie to a Loved One” in FIRST KISS #11, 1959. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man calling after crying woman who’s running away from him.
MAN: It’s not my fault! your sister looks just like you…in bed!
1959 Art: Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia Color: Allen Freeman
11.2.5.5
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SCENE: Man calling after crying woman who’s running away from him.
MAN: It’s not my fault! your sister looks just like you…in bed!
1959 Art: Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia Color: Allen Freeman
11.2.5.5
MAN: It’s not my fault! your sister looks just like you…in bed!
1959 Art: Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia Color: Allen Freeman
11.2.5.5
“Wait Elsa! Wait for me!..
…I haven’t finished seducing you yet!”
…You still have my penis in your hand bag!”
…Wow. That’s the first time I’ve ever said that to a woman. Mostly I say stuff like “Sorry. I usually last much longer than that”.”
…I haven’t finished making fun of your outfit yet!”
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“I ran…I was ashamed for Danny to see my tears! But, luckily, he ran faster than me! And he forgave me!
“Trust me! That’s exactly how it happened! We didn’t show it here because…it wasn’t all that important! I mean, who needs an action scene?!? Or a scene where lovers reconcile?!? What is this? A romance comic?
“It’s just much better to kind of hand wave all that stuff through, right? Who wouldn’t want the climax to happen off panel? Readers love having stuff like that left to their imaginations. Right? Sure. Of course they do!
“Stop judging me!”
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Hilarious stuff—as always, Jams. Your riffs about the action happening off panel is something that was particularly prevalent in Charlton romance comics. Action takes longer to draw and the Charlton artists were getting bottom-of-the barrel page rates. So they had to be fast.
Although none of them were as fast as the guy who scripted most of the Charlton romance stories–Joe Gill. Joe would start writing and when he reached the end of his page count, he’d just quickly wrap the story up and end it. (Or just stop period.) So, I’m guessing he reached the end of this one and there was no room for an action sequence.
(For the record, I really liked Joe personally. I interviewed him a couple of time about romance comics—and his life. He was a funny, crusty and very salty old guy!)
A lot of authors do this. Or at least used to do this. Publishable mass market length for a novel was often 175K words, give or take. Story could go on but it was time to wrap it up. Robert Heinlein juveniles were like that more often than not.
I love the idea of a crusty old salt scripting romance comics. That’s awesome
Year, Lazarus Long, having done every conceivable job including open air oral recitation/retelling of Shakespeare, probably wrote and illustrated romance comics at some point in his first few hundred years.
My understanding is that Heinlein was indeed a crusty old salt. Last couple of his books were put ’em down about a third in with a thought of, “glad I didn’t spend money on that”.
Really funny, Jams! No sarcasm from me in saying so!!
And thank you, John, for giving more detail to the development and personalities behind the development of other kinds of comics than I ever thought would be out there. Yeah, I say this as a woman! (No, no penises in *my* handbag… that I’ll admit to!!)
Thanks
Texas rodeo sex – remark that her breasts feel smaller than her sister’s, then try to stay on for 8 seconds
Yee Haw!
That’s how I broke my leg…
And that kind of action is nothing compared to when you bring her mother’s into it!
He should try it rodeo style. Start of in the doggie position. Tell here that her sister loves it that way. Hang on for eight seconds.
The comments on Texas rodeo sex put me in mind of a TV crime drama, maybe 15 or 20 years ago. The husband fell to his death from the balcony of their high-rise apartment while the wife was giving him an oral massage. She claimed he got dizzy and went over the railing accidentally; a witness (Peeping Tom with telescope, watching from his own nearby high-rise) testified that he saw her push him over. She was more believable and was found not guilty.
After the trial, she stopped in to thank her attorney for the successful defense, and she told him the last thing her husband had said to her: “Your sister does this so much better than you.”
Famous last words. YOUR SISTER DOES IT BETTER (or mother)could go on one of the tombstones in a Non Sequitur comic.
Curious– the link to the original access point?
The original comic book is here. You have to go to Page 17 to find the story:
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=20181
Dave Dell, the statement about Robert Heinlein and 175K words was spot on!The first time I read “Stranger in a Strange Land” in paperback, it was at 175K on the words. Years later, the original, unedited version came out, at 250K words. I saw that at my favorite old bookstore in Syracuse and snapped it up. The unedited version is so much richer! Another of Heinlein’s books that got the same treatment was “The Puppet Masters”. You can tell I’m somewhere between a fan and a fanatic about RAH.
A man asks his wife to make him feel both good and bad at the same time.
She says “Your penis is bigger than your brother’s”.