Last Kiss Featured in Forbes Article about Romance Comics
For Valentine’s Day, Forbes magazine’s Rob Salkowitz interviewed me (and my friend Sydney Heifler) about classic romance comics and included some mentions and art from Last Kiss.
—John Lustig
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Bob Powell. From the story “My Aunt Interfered With My First Romance” in First Romance Magazine #1, Aug. 1949. Published by Harvey Comics.
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↓ Transcript
SCENE: Man and woman together. Woman holding a man very loosely and looking dubiously at him.
MAN: Do you know what I like about women?
WOMAN: That they’re not men?
1949 Art: Bob Powell New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Kissed by Fate: John Lustig
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MAN: Do you know what I like about women?
WOMAN: That they’re not men?
1949 Art: Bob Powell New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Kissed by Fate: John Lustig
djp_LK741_Powell
First-Romance-Magazine-1_41_2-4
I am a little frightened of this dog bush. Is it going to attack us before we make it to the justice of the peace.
Chicks, man….
Why we like women. Oh, so many reasons. Here’s one:
https://i.imgur.com/RLWRreJ.jpeg
Here’s another….
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And at 7:45 she’ll be on a train to somewhere far away.
I believe that’s a midnight train. To anywhere. Unless you’re saying Steve Perry lied to me? To all of us?
I believe she’s gonna be on that Midnight Train to Georgia Rex.
She’d rather live in his world
then live without him\
in hers
(It’s his! His and hers alone!)
Trust me when I tell you I’m doing the dance steps while typing this.
“I won’t cry again. I mean, I would, but my tear ducts were burned out.”