by John | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
My thanks to Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella for this alternative take on Riverdale’s red-headed heartthrob.
Art by Dick Giordano from Secrets of Young Brides #36, 1957.
Transcript:
SCENE: Diego and a crying red-head Archie look back wistfully at something off-screen.
CAPTION: As she took a last wistful look at Riverdale…she knew Diego had been right. About her and about what she felt for him. Diego mused that his life with Archie had certainly taken a wonderful turn.
CAPTION: Love is Love.
1957 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Diego and a crying red-head Archie look back wistfully at something off-screen.
CAPTION: As she took a last wistful look at Riverdale…she knew Diego had been right. About her and about what she felt for him. Diego mused that his life with Archie had certainly taken a wonderful turn.
CAPTION: Love is Love.
1957 Art: Dick Giordano Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I only had time to dig out and post one of the two panels of original art. Here it is, Princess…
Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in New Romances #14, 1952.
Transcript:
CAPTION: Sure, you’re a superhero! But that doesn’t mean you’re invulnerable to
super embarrassment!
How many times have you defeated a crazed villain and then–just moments before plunging to his death–the creep ridicules you because you don’t have a college degree?
MAN: I know it hurts…worse than an atomic wedgie! But now you can earn the respect of the scumbags you battle…with a real degree from the greatest diploma mill in the universe! Comicstown University!
SCENE: Young woman in a commencement graduation cap & gown is embraced by her father (the man from the first panel.) In the background, two older women are talking.
YOUNG WOMAN: With a degree in psychology, I can bash bad guys…and psychoanalyze them!
OLDER WOMAN #1: Wow! Fists of Fury and flaming Freudian philosophy!
OLDER WOMAN #2: That’s a super-powered combo that’ll make any villain cringe!
CAPTION: Comicstown University: We guarantee you’ll get a super education–even if you’re super dumb!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe
Color–Left Panel: Diego Jourdan Perira Right Panel Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptCAPTION: Sure, you’re a superhero! But that doesn’t mean you’re invulnerable to
super embarrassment!
How many times have you defeated a crazed villain and then--just moments before plunging to his death--the creep ridicules you because you don’t have a college degree?
MAN: I know it hurts...worse than an atomic wedgie! But now you can earn the respect of the scumbags you battle...with a real degree from the greatest diploma mill in the universe! Comicstown University!
SCENE: Young woman in a commencement graduation cap & gown is embraced by her father (the man from the first panel.) In the background, two older women are talking.
YOUNG WOMAN: With a degree in psychology, I can bash bad guys…and psychoanalyze them!
OLDER WOMAN #1: Wow! Fists of Fury and flaming Freudian philosophy!
OLDER WOMAN #2: That’s a super-powered combo that’ll make any villain cringe!
CAPTION: Comicstown University: We guarantee you’ll get a super education--even if you’re super dumb!
1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe
Color--Left Panel: Diego Jourdan Perira Right Panel Color: Allen Freeman
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by John | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
1963 art by Luis Dominguez from the story “Reckless Romance” in First Kiss #30. (Scanned from the publisher’s black & white photostats of the color comic.)
Transcript:
PANEL #1 SCENE: Young woman talking to her parents as they start to leave the house.
CAPTION: While waiting to win the lottery, Bella Bylotta is having a hard time affording the basic necessities–rent, food, Netflix and comics! So Bella decides she either has to get a job or…
YOUNG WOMAN: …move back in with you and Mom!
DAD: Great! We’ll just sleep in the driveway so there’s room for all your comics!
MOM: After we die of hypothermia, bury us in the flower beds!
PANEL #2 SCENE: Medium closeup of the distressed daughter after her parents leave.
YOUNG WOMAN (thinks): Anger! Guilt! Sarcasm! That’s so sweet! It’s just like I never left!
1963 Art: Luis Dominguez Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptPANEL #1 SCENE: Young woman talking to her parents as they start to leave the house.
CAPTION: While waiting to win the lottery, Bella Bylotta is having a hard time affording the basic necessities--rent, food, Netflix and comics! So Bella decides she either has to get a job or...
YOUNG WOMAN: ...move back in with you and Mom!
DAD: Great! We’ll just sleep in the driveway so there’s room for all your comics!
MOM: After we die of hypothermia, bury us in the flower beds!
PANEL #2 SCENE: Medium closeup of the distressed daughter after her parents leave.
YOUNG WOMAN (thinks): Anger! Guilt! Sarcasm! That’s so sweet! It’s just like I never left!
1963 Art: Luis Dominguez Color: Allen Freeman
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by John | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Art attributed to George Tuska from the “Glory Forbes” story in Rangers Comics #22, April 1945.
Transcript:
CAPTION: At first, Shirley Smelmoor was just a hardworking deodorant model–testing the olfactory limits of the latest pit protection devised by Dismal Hygiene, Inc! But then a new, experimental deodorant is accidentally mixed with radioactive ore! (Don’t ask how! It doesn’t make sense to us either!) And Shirley becomes Ms. Sniff–the Maid of Malodorous Might!
PANEL #1: Ms. Sniff is undressing on a dock.
MS. SNIFF (thinking): Stopping that bank robbery left me smelling worse than a skunk in a cesspool!
PANEL #2: Ms. Sniff dives off the pier into the water as a bystander comments.
BYSTANDER: Hey! What reeks? Did something die?MS. SNIFF (thinking): A quick bath in Lake Fetid should do the trick!
PANEL #3: Ms. Sniff is hiding in the water below the pier as she hears voices from above.
BYSTANDER: No! It’s worse! It’s Ms. Sniff…The siren of stench!
BYSTANDER #2: Again? That putrid pariah oughta be run out of town!
MS. SNIFF (thinking): Th-that voice! It’s my date…Paul!
CAPTION: What happens next? Find out in our next sinus-scorching adventure: “I’ll love you forever…as long as you’re downwind!”
1945 Art by George Tuska Color by Lustig
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↓ TranscriptCAPTION: At first, Shirley Smelmoor was just a hardworking deodorant model--testing the olfactory limits of the latest pit protection devised by Dismal Hygiene, Inc! But then a new, experimental deodorant is accidentally mixed with radioactive ore! (Don’t ask how! It doesn’t make sense to us either!) And Shirley becomes Ms. Sniff--the Maid of Malodorous Might!
PANEL #1: Ms. Sniff is undressing on a dock.
MS. SNIFF (thinking): Stopping that bank robbery left me smelling worse than a skunk in a cesspool!
PANEL #2: Ms. Sniff dives off the pier into the water as a bystander comments.
BYSTANDER: Hey! What reeks? Did something die?MS. SNIFF (thinking): A quick bath in Lake Fetid should do the trick!
PANEL #3: Ms. Sniff is hiding in the water below the pier as she hears voices from above.
BYSTANDER: No! It’s worse! It’s Ms. Sniff...The siren of stench!
BYSTANDER #2: Again? That putrid pariah oughta be run out of town!
MS. SNIFF (thinking): Th-that voice! It’s my date…Paul!
CAPTION: What happens next? Find out in our next sinus-scorching adventure: “I’ll love you forever…as long as you’re downwind!”
1945 Art by George Tuska Color by Lustig
by John | Jul 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “The Girl Next Door” in First Kiss #3, May 1958.
