Yes, this is the third Tony Isabella gag I’ve used in a row! Not enough Tony for you? On Wednesday let’s make it four!
Art by Dick Giordano from Secrets of Young Brides #37, 1963. (Scanned from a photostat of the original black & white line art.)
Transcript:
SCENE: In the foreground, U.S. dollar bills of various denominations fly through the air. In the background, a man speaks angrily to a woman.
MAN: Are you insane? You sold my comic-book collection and this was all you got? Those comics were worth millions! Thousands! Hundreds! I’m just going to go to the comic shop, okay?
1963 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk605 Secrets of Young Brides #37
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SCENE: In the foreground, U.S. dollar bills of various denominations fly through the air. In the background, a man speaks angrily to a woman.
MAN: Are you insane? You sold my comic-book collection and this was all you got? Those comics were worth millions! Thousands! Hundreds! I'm just going to go to the comic shop, okay?
1963 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk605 Secrets of Young Brides #37
MAN: Are you insane? You sold my comic-book collection and this was all you got? Those comics were worth millions! Thousands! Hundreds! I'm just going to go to the comic shop, okay?
1963 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk605 Secrets of Young Brides #37
I can explain; just one more nose job and then I’ll stop, OK?
That nose is going to disappear after one more nose job. Then there’ll be a need for nose augmentation surgery to build it back up. A vicious cycle of destruction and renewal.
This just gave the shudders to everyone that collected comics as a young boy who came home to discover that Mom had thrown everything away!
Mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!
The horror…..
Yeah. At one point my Mom wanted all my comics out of the house. (She hated them.) Fortunately my grandmother let me store my collection at her house until my mom related and let them back into the house.
By the way, over on my GoComics page, I’m hearing lots of horror stories about moms and significant others getting rid of readers’ comics:
https://www.gocomics.com/lastkiss/2020/12/07
She sold them at a profit over what he TOLD her he paid for them.
Wow! Dave, that’s oddly re-assuring and disturbing at the same time!