A Valentine’s Day Difference

A Valentine’s Day Difference

Happy Valentine’s Day! May your sweetheart be sweet and your heart full of love!

Many thanks to my frequent partner in hilarity Mike Pascale for the wild Valentine’s Day gag!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Artist unknown, but might be Matt Baker. From the story “His Face Before Me” in Romance Stories of True Love #51, Sept. 1958. Published by Harvey Comics.

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WOMAN: Let’s do something different for Valentine’s Day!

MAN: Sleep with another man?

WOMAN: You wouldn't mind?

MAN: I meant both of us!

1958 Artist Unknown New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Thinking Outside the Candy Box: Mike Pascale & John Lustig

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A Mind-Blowing Valentine’s Day

A Mind-Blowing Valentine’s Day

Original Vintage Art & Text

Pencils by Charles Nicholas. From the story “Crime that Didn’t Occur!” in Zaza the Mystic #10, April 1956. Published by Charlton.

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SCENE: A woman fortune teller looks shocked.

WOMAN: I predict mind-blowing sex on Valentine’s Day! And best of all...chocolate!

1956 Pencils: Charles Nicholas Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira

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Suitor Survival

Suitor Survival

Original Vintage Art & Text

Inks by Dick Giordano from the story “Heartbreaker” in First Kiss #12, Jan. 1960. Charlton. The story begins on Page 12.

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SCENE: A disgruntled man looks on from the background as a woman and man talk in the foreground.

WOMAN: ...and whoever wins the fight gets to be my Valentine!

1960 Inks: Dick Giordano New Color: Allen Freeman
Referee: John Lustig

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2025

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2025

You can quibble with the wording. In retrospect, it should be “brothers AND sisters.” But the basic message is timeless. Let’s be kind to each other.

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We must live together as brothers...or perish together as fools.

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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Her Declaration of Independence

Her Declaration of Independence

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani from the story “Honeymoon Continued” in First Kiss #24, Jan. 1962. Published by Charlton.

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SCENE: Two women talking. Younger woman is holding a tea cup. (Or small coffee cup.)

YOUNGER WOMAN: My new year’s resolution is to be more independent!

OLDER WOMAN: What does your HUSBAND think about that?

YOUNGER WOMAN: You mean my soon-to-be-ex husband? He didn’t like it!

1962 Art: Charles Nicholas & Sal Trapani Color: Allen Freeman
Independent Dependents: Mike Pascale & John Lustig

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