I’m making a temporary tweak to my usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday comics schedule. There won’t be a Monday comic so that I can actually run this Father’s Day gag on…Father’s Day.
Yes, I know it’s shocking concept. But I thought I’d give it a try.
Happy Father’s Day to me—and all the other dads out there!
Art by Dick Giordano from Romantic Story #70, Jan. 1964.
The cover teaser caption in the upper-left hand corner is impossible to read here, but it says: The date for my marriage to Chet Dillman was set! I loved Chet and wanted to be his wife, but…I was determined to have one last fling!
Transcript:
Scene: Man and woman dancing joyously.
MAN: You’re pregnant?
WOMAN: Yup! Happy Father’s Day!
1964 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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Art by Dick Giordano from Romantic Story #70, Jan. 1964.
MAN: You’re pregnant?
WOMAN: Yup! Happy Father's Day!
1964 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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Art by Dick Giordano from Romantic Story #70, Jan. 1964.
The fertility clinic charged me an arm and a leg, but it worked.
To you and all the other “donors”
Fling her away Chet. Stay free. She should stay free as well.
The mid ’60’s are the start of good times for the birth control industry. Griswold vs Connecticut ’65, IUD’s 1968, and 1972 Baird vs. Eisenstadt.