by John | Apr 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Happy Easter!
(And big thanks to pals Allen Freeman and Mike Pascale for the art.)
Transcript:
SCENE: Beautiful woman in a costume that resembles the Playboy bunny outfits.
BUXOM BUNNY: The
Easter Bunny
can’t make it. So I
got out this costume from my Playboy
days! Now where’s
your wife and
kids? I can’t wait to surprise them!
2010 Art: Allen Freeman Bunnification: Mike Pascale
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Beautiful woman in a costume that resembles the Playboy bunny outfits.
BUXOM BUNNY: The
Easter Bunny
can’t make it. So I
got out this costume from my Playboy
days! Now where’s
your wife and
kids? I can’t wait to surprise them!
2010 Art: Allen Freeman Bunnification: Mike Pascale
AF010.1.Allen.Easter.MP.TallFlat
by John | Apr 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Happy Easter!
Transcript:
SCENE: Five Easter Island statues.
STATUE #1: Linus lied! The Great Pumpkin isn’t coming!
STATUE #2: We were blockheads to wait for him instead of our true lord!
STATUE #3, 4 & 5 (shout): All hail the Easter Bunny!
CAPTION: The Rocky History of Easter Island
Based on a photo by Yoko Correia Nishimiya
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Five Easter Island statues.
STATUE #1: Linus lied! The Great Pumpkin isn’t coming!
STATUE #2: We were blockheads to wait for him instead of our true lord!
STATUE #3, 4 & 5 (shout): All hail the Easter Bunny!
CAPTION: The Rocky History of Easter Island
Based on a photo by Yoko Correia Nishimiya
by John | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s a day early, but Happy April Fool’s Day.
(By the way, if you hurt yourself laughing at Tony Isabella‘s gag then please seek medication attention—stat!)
Original, Vintage Art & Text:

Art by Dick Giordano from The Young Doctors #6, Nov. 1963. Charlton Comics
Transcript:
SCENE: Doctor in a hospital acts like he’s having sudden, overwhelming pain as a patient in a bed looks on in alarm.
CAPTION: Dr. Kevin thought his “Alien chest buster” reenactment
was hilarious…just the thing to relax his surgical patients. He never grasped the correlation between this…and the rising cost…of his malpractice insurance.
1963 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Doctor in a hospital acts like he's having sudden, overwhelming pain as a patient in a bed looks on in alarm.
CAPTION: Dr. Kevin thought his “Alien chest buster” reenactment
was hilarious...just the thing to relax his surgical patients. He never grasped the correlation between this...and the rising cost...of his malpractice insurance.
1963 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Mar 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original, Vintage Art & Text:

Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “The Gay Deception” in FIRST KISS #8, 1959.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman putting on makeup as another woman looks on in the background.
WOMAN #1: I don’t have to be good…if I look good!
WOMAN #2 (thinks): She’s evil, but %$#@! I want to be her!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman putting on makeup as another woman looks on in the background.
WOMAN #1: I don’t have to be good...if I look good!
WOMAN #2 (thinks): She's evil, but %$#@! I want to be her!
1959 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
8.1.6.2
by John | Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original, Vintage Art & Text:

Art by Luis Dominguez from the story “Reckless Romance” in FIRST KISS #30, 1963.
Transcript:
MAN: Look! I tattooed
your face on my chest. so you’ll always be close to my heart!
WOMAN: I had yours inked on my rear–so I can always sit on it!
1963 Art: Luis Dominguez
New Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptMAN: Look! I tattooed
your face on my chest. so you’ll always be close to my heart!
WOMAN: I had yours inked on my rear--so I can always sit on it!
1963 Art: Luis Dominguez
New Color: Allen Freeman
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