A tale of time-traveling fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Dick Giordano from I Love You #53, Oct. 1964. Charlton Comics. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman sitting in front of a typewriter, staring into space.
CAPTION: Staring vacantly around the room, accidental time-traveler Dora wondered why this computer…was taking so long to connect to the Internet.
1964 Art: Dick Giordano
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
Comic God: John Lustig
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SCENE: Woman sitting in front of a typewriter, staring into space.
CAPTION: Staring vacantly around the room, accidental time-traveler Dora wondered why this computer...was taking so long to connect to the Internet.
1964 Art: Dick Giordano
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
Comic God: John Lustig
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CAPTION: Staring vacantly around the room, accidental time-traveler Dora wondered why this computer...was taking so long to connect to the Internet.
1964 Art: Dick Giordano
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
Comic God: John Lustig
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“Comic God”? Is that a god of comics, or God of Comedy? Anyway, moving on….
This reminds me of another comic,sorry Comic God: they want a genius to devise something unhackable, so he reinvents the typewriter.
Jokes are funny when they’re overexplained, right? Guys? Right?
“Is that a god of comics, or God of Comedy?”
Is there any reason it can’t be both? No, of course not.
You’re right! Silly me! 😉
My advice to the lovelorn consisted of “Don’t ask, don’t get.” No one, including me, followed that advice. Excellent results are also obtained with ‘Don’t be a creep’.
The last typewriter I used (irregularly) was almost a computer. Had a backspace erase key that would white out the last several words you’d typed. Loved that IBM ball smacking the paper – none of that not having pressed the mechanical key hard enough or typing too fast and getting jammed. A marvelous piece of office machinery.
Then I spent the next decades of my working life trying to get a page printed correctly.
This sounds like my last typewriter too: a IBM Personal Wheelwriter Typewriter. I had such hopes for it. And it was an improvement over a non-electronic typewriter. Just not as big of an improvement as I was hoping for!
Yes, I’d accidentally hit a key too hard or a micro-second too long and it’d fire off a string of unwanted letters or just jam up completely.
Dave Dell – I can relate to all of that. Thanks (??) for stirring bad memories. 🙂
The fact that the “computer” has a keyboard but no monitor should have been a give away.