by John | Oct 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Art by Ken Bald from Adventures Into the Unknown #21, July 1951.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman staring in horror into a mirror at a pimple on her nose. She doesn’t notice that vampire is coming towards her through a window.
WOMAN: Oh, dear God…no! I’ve got a pimple!
1951 Art: Ken Bald Restoration: John Lustig
Adventure Into the Unknown #21
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman staring in horror into a mirror at a pimple on her nose. She doesn't notice that vampire is coming towards her through a window.
WOMAN: Oh, dear God...no! I've got a pimple!
1951 Art: Ken Bald Restoration: John Lustig
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by John | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in NEW ROMANCES #14, 1952.
Transcript:
CAPTION: Death be not proud…or forever when you’re a superhero. But it sure sells comics! And here at Last Kiss, we’re anxious to give you readers what you so obviously desire: gratuitous death on an epic scale! Having a limited budget, though, we’ll have to use an old radio show trick and depend on you to supply the multi-million special effects…and most of the all-star, over-paid cast as well! Ready? Here goes!
PANEL #1: Lightning
SOUND: Zap
SOUND: Look out! It’s…
SOUND: Arrrggh!
SOUND: Yikes!
SOUND: Nooooo!
SOUND: Iiieeee!
PANEL 2: In a graveyard, a crying woman is comforted by a man. In the background, two men work with shovels to fill in a grave.
WOMAN: The entire Legion of Superfluous Heroes wiped out…in a bloody, depraved battle! Who’ll protect us from mindless carnage now?
MAN: Not the Comics Code! That’s for sure!!
CAPTION: Next: The Society of Stupid Pet Tricks gets neutered!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Right Panel Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptCAPTION: Death be not proud…or forever when you’re a superhero. But it sure sells comics! And here at Last Kiss, we’re anxious to give you readers what you so obviously desire: gratuitous death on an epic scale! Having a limited budget, though, we’ll have to use an old radio show trick and depend on you to supply the multi-million special effects…and most of the all-star, over-paid cast as well! Ready? Here goes!
PANEL #1: Lightning
SOUND: Zap
SOUND: Look out! It's...
SOUND: Arrrggh!
SOUND: Yikes!
SOUND: Nooooo!
SOUND: Iiieeee!
PANEL 2: In a graveyard, a crying woman is comforted by a man. In the background, two men work with shovels to fill in a grave.
WOMAN: The entire Legion of Superfluous Heroes wiped out...in a bloody, depraved battle! Who’ll protect us from mindless carnage now?
MAN: Not the Comics Code! That’s for sure!!
CAPTION: Next: The Society of Stupid Pet Tricks gets neutered!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Right Panel Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy Friday the Thirteen, Everyone!
Transcript:
BLACK KITTEN WITH BLUE EYES: I’m not bad luck…unless you’re a mouse! Are you a mouse? I think you are! Let’s find out!
Adapted from a photo by Erik Mclean https://unsplash.com/@introspectivedsgn
↓ TranscriptBLACK KITTEN WITH BLUE EYES: I’m not bad luck…unless you’re a mouse! Are you a mouse? I think you are! Let’s find out!
Adapted from a photo by Erik Mclean https://unsplash.com/@introspectivedsgn
by John | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Happy Halloween from me and Mike (“I’ve got the munchies!”) Pascale.
Art by Lee Elias from Witches Tales #8, 1952.
Transcript:
SCENE: The Grim Reaper—appearing as a skeleton clothed in a hooded robe and carrying a scythe—confronts a frightened woman in a grave yard. She’s tied to a large tombstone. Other living skeletons cavort around them.
GRIM REAPER: Mortal,
you committed the ultimate Halloween SIN! You gave out Candy Corn!
WOMAN: I had to! nobody would eat Candy Broccoli!
SKELETON: Watta Corny joke!
1952 Art: Lee Elias From the cover of Witches Tales #8
Tasty Text: Mike (Mounds) Pascale & John (Junior Mints) Lustig
↓ TranscriptSCENE: The Grim Reaper---appearing as a skeleton clothed in a hooded robe and carrying a scythe---confronts a frightened woman in a grave yard. She's tied to a large tombstone. Other living skeletons cavort around them.
GRIM REAPER: Mortal,
you committed the ultimate Halloween SIN! You gave out Candy Corn!
WOMAN: I had to! nobody would eat Candy Broccoli!
SKELETON: Watta Corny joke!
1952 Art: Lee Elias From the cover of Witches Tales #8
Tasty Text: Mike (Mounds) Pascale & John (Junior Mints) Lustig
by John | Oct 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Artist unknown. From Witches Tales #27, 1954.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Viewpoint from a man being buried alive. All we see of him are his hands. Another man is shoveling in dirt on top of the first man.
MAN BEING BURIED: Wait! I was just kidding! I didn’t sleep with your wife! And, if I did, it was just once...or maybe twice!
1954 Artist Unknown From the cover of Witches Tales #27
