by John | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Young African-American woman looking up at a night sky.
CAPTION: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
--Maya Angelou
Image modified from aphoto by Jessica Felicio
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by John | Jun 15, 2024 | Blog
Happy Father’s Day!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Lou Fine. From The Ray story in Smash Comics #26, Sept. 1941. Published by Quality Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: We see Bucky--a young, red-headed boy--in front of a sky scene. In the background we see the silhouette of a stork delivering a baby.
BUCKY: Thanks, Dad! Mom says, if you hadn’t made the stork visit her...she’d have married Uncle Jack! And I’d be my own cousin!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Proud Papa: John Lustig
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by John | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A zillion kids (several carrying American flags) are in a field Uncle Sam. Together they are fighting a terrorist or criminal gang. Each of the gang members are wearing leather jackets with a skull and cross bones insignia on the back.
CAPTION: National Comics #9 10 cents.
CAPTION: A Typical Flag Day in Comic Books!
CAPTION: Patriotism: It’s not for wimps!
1941 Art: Lou Fine Flag Pole Polisher: John Lustig
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by John | May 11, 2024 | Blog
Happy Mother’s Day!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Alice Kirkpatrick & Bill Ward from the story “Never Marry for Love” in Diary Loves #5, May 1950. Quality Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Young, red-headed woman is in bed writing in a journal .
WOMAN (thinking): Mom, come quick! I stuffed Silly Putty up my nose...and I can't get it out!
Have a Happy, Relaxing Mother’s Day!
Art: Alice Kirkpatrick & Bill Ward Re-ink & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Not a Mother of Invention: John Lustig
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by John | Apr 25, 2024 | Blog
Happy Arbor Day from me and my frequent partner in hilarity Mike Pascale.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Tartaglione from the story “Elopement” in First Kiss #4, July 1958. Charlton Comics.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: A woman with a small suitcase is leaving a home's courtyard.
VOICE FROM OFF PANEL: You’re celebrating Arbor Day? How?!!
WOMAN: Isn’t it obvious? I’m leaf-ing you!
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Dan McConnell
Have Puns, Will Babble: Mike Pascale & John Lustig
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