Vintage Art & Text:
Art by Dick Giordano from the story “My Secret” in FIRST KISS #27, 1962.
Transcript:
SCENE: A man and woman are dancing. The woman leans into him and smiles.
WOMAN: Silly me! I thought you forgot my birthday!
MAN (thinking): Her
Birthday? Oh…crud! Now she’ll expect me to pay for dinner!
1962 Art: Dick Giordano Foreground Color: Allen Freeman
Everything Else: John Lustig
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↓ Transcript
SCENE: A man and woman are dancing. The woman leans into him and smiles.
WOMAN: Silly me! I thought you forgot my birthday!
MAN (thinking): Her
Birthday? Oh…crud! Now she’ll expect me to pay for dinner!
1962 Art: Dick Giordano Foreground Color: Allen Freeman
Everything Else: John Lustig
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WOMAN: Silly me! I thought you forgot my birthday!
MAN (thinking): Her
Birthday? Oh…crud! Now she’ll expect me to pay for dinner!
1962 Art: Dick Giordano Foreground Color: Allen Freeman
Everything Else: John Lustig
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Plot twist: Steve brings the ‘Dutch Elm Disease’ to Elmdale and becomes rich owning a tree service business. She likes it because he never lacks for wood.
Ha! Nicely put, Dave. A man with wood? Oh, yes, he would surely please her.