Finally! The Last Kiss version of what really happened on the Brady Bunch.
Tony Isabella
Here’s a recent newspaper interview with guest writer Tony Isabella—with considerable emphasis on the Black Lightning TV show and Tony’s March 9 appearance on the show.
The Original Art
Art by Alex Toth & Mike Peppe from the story “The Man Who Was Always On Time” in Out of the Shadows #12, March 1954.
Transcript:
SCENE: Dapper, mustached man wearing a dinner jacket smokes and speaks. He smiles slightly.
MAN: This is my story. The story of a man named Brady. But it doesn’t have a happy ending like on TV. How could it have gone so terribly wrong? It was Alice. Crafty, seductive Alice…
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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SCENE: Dapper, mustached man wearing a dinner jacket smokes and speaks. He smiles slightly.
MAN: This is my story. The story of a man named Brady. But it doesn’t have a happy ending like on TV. How could it have gone so terribly wrong? It was Alice. Crafty, seductive Alice...
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk494 & Out of the Shadows12_10_3
MAN: This is my story. The story of a man named Brady. But it doesn’t have a happy ending like on TV. How could it have gone so terribly wrong? It was Alice. Crafty, seductive Alice...
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk494 & Out of the Shadows12_10_3
The Brady Bunch on TV had a happy ending.
Everybody was happy when it was over.
Well, I certainly wasn’t sad when it ended. (I did like Ann B. Davis, though, the actress who played Alice. But that was more from her role on the “The Bob Cummings Show.” Yes, I’m old enough to remember that show—although somewhat dimly.
I remember “The Bob Cummings Show” also. That probably would not fly on today’s television. IMDb says it was from 1955-1959.
Another Tony hit…silly sophistication perfectly paired with Toth’s similar art! Great article too…so happy for him to finally be recognized as well as immortalized on the screen!
Her bright smile masked the darkness within….