Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story Love’s Lovely Mirage” in FIRST KISS #36, 1964. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Doctor talking to a woman patient.
WOMAN: B-butI like… everyone!
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Medical Malpractice Insurance: John Lustig
36.1.8.2
↓ Transcript
SCENE: Doctor talking to a woman patient.
WOMAN: B-butI like... everyone!
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Medical Malpractice Insurance: John Lustig
36.1.8.2
WOMAN: B-butI like... everyone!
1964 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
Medical Malpractice Insurance: John Lustig
36.1.8.2
“Young men rarely write poems to girls with runny noses!
They’ll sometimes write them if the girl strikes sexy poses!
And every so often if the girl wears nothing but roses!
But never, never, ever to girls with runny noses!”
“But Doctor I can’t strike sexy poses!
Why, it hurts something fierce when I try to touch-a my toes-es!
And I break out in hives when I get near the roses!
So all I got left is my runny ol’ noses!”
“You can’t do poses or roses and only got noses?
The guys will treat you
Like the Egyptians did Moses!
At best you might get a line or two of proses!
You must, oh you must, find something other than noses!”
“Maybe if I took off all of my clothes-es?
Showed them my these-s and my that-s
and especially my those-es?”
“I think that is the best diagnosis!
They’ll drown you in verse for a glimpse of your those-es!
Oh, I knew you could, knew you would
Find something other than noses!”
There’s a rumor, my friend, that Dr. Seuss is gone.
After eating bad green eggs and ham, he decomposes.
And then was buried by Sneetches with bulldozes!
But now the truth is out, Mr. Oh, so Fine Jam!
He lives on still. He is you–I proposes.
And, with that, I confess–I closes!
(Bravo and thanks as ever for the fun, Jams!)
Bravo number 2!! Fantastic, I say, and I’m not trying to help the spread of runny noses (or runny anythings, for double truth be told!!).
I think I read this in GENT magazine back in the day
“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses
So Dorothy Park has said
I think it’s quite likely,
They’re very unsightly.
But no-one wears glasses to bed.”
Nice!
Make passes at girls who wear glasses? Depends on their frames…
So real talk: was this how illness was framed back in the day, by how unattractive to men it made you look?