I couldn’t find anything in my archive that quite fit what I wanted to do with this gag, (The woman with the gun was perfect, but the guy in the original image looked just a little too smug.) So I took portions of two panels from different stories and put them together. See below.
Pencils by Alice Kirkpatrick from the story “I Played with Fire” in Diary Loves #8, 1951.
Art by Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia from the story “One Too Many Heartbreaks” in FIRST KISS #39, 1964.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman pointing a handgun at a man.
WOMAN: You don’t believe in divorce? Me either!
1951 Art (left figure): Alice Kirkpatrick
1964 Art (right figure): Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia
Re-Creation & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk153JustWoman_DJP.lk417JustGuyFlat
WOMAN: You don’t believe in divorce? Me either!
1951 Art (left figure): Alice Kirkpatrick
1964 Art (right figure): Charles Nicholas & Vince Alascia
Re-Creation & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk153JustWoman_DJP.lk417JustGuyFlat
I like what you did there. It would have been a stretch to get Matt Randall to look fearful. Lecherous, maybe, but not fearful.
Thanks, Dave. Yeah, ol’ Matt just wasn’t right for the job–at least this job.
“Give me back my panties, Matt. Now.”
“Uhhh,sure, Toots! But you may not want ’em back. Now.”