by John | Feb 13, 2025 | Blog
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
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptWOMAN: 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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by John | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog
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.
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: 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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by John | Jan 30, 2025 | Blog
Phone sex without the phone?
Original Vintage Art & Text

Inks by Dick Giordano from the story “Heartbreaker” in First Kiss #12, 1960.
Synopsis of original 1960 story “Heartbreakers) courtesy of https://comicbookplus.com/:
Jill is the “campus queen,” who flirts with boys and breaks their hearts. She becomes interested in new student Ron and thinks she’s found true love at last. However, Ron says he’s taking someone else to the prom, and now Jill has “learned my lesson…the hard way!”
↓ TranscriptMAN #1 (to woman sitting at a booth having an ice cream soda): What if I pretend to flirt with you?
WOMAN: Then I'll pretend to sleep with you!
MAN #2 (sitting beside woman): Gosh! You only pretended to kiss me!
1960 Inks: Dick Giordano Color: Allen Freeman
Pretending to Be Awake: John Lustig
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by John | Jan 12, 2025 | Blog
The readers have spoken. Reaction–both here and on GoComics–to Friday’s He-She comic–was overwhelmingly positive. You folks want more comics with the original, vintage dialogue–as long as those comics are truly weird.
I need to search my archives and plan this out. But more weirdness is coming sometime in the next few weeks!
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More Last Kiss fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art possibly by Robert Webb. From Secret Romances #13, 1958. Superior Comics. (No link because the original comic is not online.)
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MAN: Goll-ee, that lady’s hair is as blue as my balls!
MAN: Maybe you gals can help me out with that?
WOMAN: Put on the brakes, slick!
WOMAN: But if you can keep it in your pants…
WOMAN: ...we might let you watch!
1958 Art: Robert Webb? Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Jan 5, 2025 | Blog
More Last Kiss fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Murphy Anderson from the story “All Aboard for the Moon” in Rangers Comics #64, April 1952. (Fiction House.)
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Three male scientists are working in a lab. One is looking through a microscope. One is carrying some beakers in the background. The scientist in the foreground is holding a test tube.
MAN: This is the biggest breakthrough in romance chemistry since Love Potion #9!
MAN: Sugar-Free Love Potion #9!
MAN: All the passion, fewer calories!
MAN: And we’re on the verge of creating Sugar-Free Love Potion #9 Wild Cherry…
MAN: ...and Super-Free Love Potion #9 Mango Madness!
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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