Penciller unknown. Inked by Dick Giordano. From the story “My Foolish Heart” in FIRST KISS #21, 1961.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman sitting on the grass as a man broods in the distance.
WOMAN (thinking): So many men! So few who can afford me!
1961 Art: Inked by Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
21.5.6.5
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SCENE: Woman sitting on the grass as a man broods in the distance.
WOMAN (thinking): So many men! So few who can afford me!
1961 Art: Inked by Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
21.5.6.5
WOMAN (thinking): So many men! So few who can afford me!
1961 Art: Inked by Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
21.5.6.5
I love the shoe breaking the box! Was this a 60’s thing?
It wasn’t a common ’60s technique (and it was extremely rare at Charlton Comics where this story was published.)
I do think the technique was used a little more often in the late ’60s—possibly popularized when Neal Adams started doing it. (This story, though, is from 1961!)
Thanks for the perspective, John. Of current strips, I am most impressed by Brooke McEldowney’s Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn for non-traditional use of boxes and speech bubbles to tell a story in a much better sense of time.
Got a message I’ve never seen before: “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”
Exceedingly strange.
Really? That is odd. If it happens again let me know. You’re certainly not commenting too quickly or too often for me, Dave!
As I mentioned before, you are using the Tribune’s lousy blogging platform, which also does that. System clock must have a screw loose.
I don’t know about The Tribune, but my website is done via WordPress—which is a very popular (you might even say “mainstream” blogging platform.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it isn’t going to have some bugs or problems!
And she’s showing how much she loves him by spreading her legs. Fortunately, this was a couple of years before the miniskirt.
…especially your money. I love that just bunches
..especially bunches of it, minimum $100 denominations.