by John | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog
More Last Kiss fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Matt Baker (and possibly inked by John Forte) from the Tiger Girl story in Fight Comics #50, June 1957. Published by Fiction House.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptLAST KISS DJP.LK759_fight_lores
MAN: Way back in the Golden Age of Comics…
MAN: ...we didn’t go for the sexy stuff!
MAN: Before every manly fight, the artists would take…
MAN: ...an xacto knife and white-out to my nipples.
MAN: We didn’t want to distract our young readers…
MAN: ...from the kicking and the punching!
1957 Art: Matt Baker New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=21779
djp_LK759_Fight
by John | Dec 15, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Pencils by Dick Giordano (with inks by either Giordano or Vince Colletta) from the story “Letter from Long Ago” in First Kiss #6, Nov. 1958. Published by Charlton Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptCAPTION: “Our love was dying! Jim had stopped showering me with gifts! In fact…I think he stopped showering at all! He was always too busy...rushing off to work…staying late…and coming home later. I knew he was having an affair! Oh, how had we come to this? In the beginning, everything had been so perfect! He’d buy me wonderful gifts! Flowers! Chocolate! Key issues of Silver Age comic books! And now…nothing! Surely, our love was doomed! Or so I thought, until…”
SCENE PANEL #1: Man's hand holding an engagement ring out to a crying young woman.
MAN: Surprise! I’ve been working extra hours to buy you...this!
WOMAN: An engagement ring? But I thought…
SCENE PANEL #2: Man puts engagement ring on the wedding ring finger of the woman.
MAN: Oh, honey! don't be silly! You don't have to think ever again! You're marrying me!
WOMAN: OH...Of course, darling! But still...I can’t help wondering…
“If we return this ring…can you image how many great comics we can buy?”
1958 Pencils: Dick Giordano Inks: Giordano or Vince Colletta Gift Exchange: John Lustig
FK06_03_3-4Less Dialogue
by John | Oct 15, 2024 | Blog
This is an adaption of a two-parter that I originally did for Comics Buyer’s Guide back in 2004. It appears here in color for the first time and with a new opening caption and some minor edits. Part 2 will appear this Friday.
–John
Original Vintage Art & Text
Inked by Dick Giordano. From the story “My Foolish Heart” in First Kiss #21, July 1961. Charlton Comics.
Inked by Dick Giordano. From the story “My Foolish Heart” in First Kiss #21, July 1961. Charlton Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptCAPTION: "Hello, I’m Mildred Inksplat--sexy scholar of comic book wisdom! I'm here today to discuss Batman’s most famous utterance: “Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot!”*
MILDRED: What did Batman really mean by that? My research shows that Most criminals are... men! So obviously batman is saying......men are more likely to be cowardly, superstitious and dishonest than women! Oh, No! Does that offend you? I’m sincerely sorry! And do you know why? Because I’m a woman, you clod! I’m considerate! I care! if I was a man I'd never be this %$#@ sensitive!
Friday, In Part 2 of 2: Mildred Gets Even More %$#@ Sensitive!
1961 Inks: Dick Giordano Silly, Sensitive & Slightly Superstitious: John Lustig
21.5.4.2SingleWoman-gigapixel-cgi-3.7x
21.5.2Short.Clear
FK21.5.2.5
FK21.5.4.2-3
by John | May 21, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art possibly by Jill Elgin. From the Blonde Bomber story in All-New Comics #9, Jully 1944. Published by Harvey Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man and a woman are tied up in front of a huge, stone fireplace. Books in a bookcase are nearby. Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane?
JIMMY: Groan! How many times this week have we been abducted and tied up by super villains, Lois?
LOIS: Beats me, Jimmy! I can’t count that high!
JIMMY: Me either!
CAPTION: Next: Our heroes are captured by the sinister sorcerer Deja Vu Doo...again! And again! And again!
1944 Art: Jill Elgin? Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Bound for Glory: John Lustig
djp_LK740_Lois&Jimmy
by John | May 19, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “The Girl Next Door” in First Kiss #3, May 1958. Published by Charlton. The story begins on Page 8.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman talking to a man and woman.
WOMAN: I’m not a golddigger! I’d marry your dad Even if...he was down to his last million dollars!
1958 Art: Vince Colletta Studio New Color: Dan McConnell & John Lustig
Poor Writer: John Lustig
3.2.3.2DM.RevClear
