Abby Meets Her Mystery Man—at Last!

Abby Meets Her Mystery Man—at Last!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.

Past episodes of Abby Amour:

The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.

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LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour


CAPTION: Abby meets with the mystery man...


CAPTION: ...who brought her flowers...


CAPTION: ...while she was comatose!


ABBY: Joe Cupid! It was you?


ABBY: And why am I just now noticing...


ABBY: ...how much you look like...


ABBY: ...that creep Johnny Sacko?


ABBY: This better be one heck of a plot twist!


CAPTION: To be continued next Friday!
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The Colonel’s Story

The Colonel’s Story

No more dramatic pauses! From here, we move into high gear as the final six episodes unfold. Next week…a big, big reveal. And a plot development that will make your jaw drop!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.

Past episodes of Abby Amour:

The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.

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LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour

COLONEL: My house is all I kept from my marriage.



COLONEL: My wife took my heart and our only child.

COLONEL: …and changed his name when she remarried.



COLONEL: I thought I could find love with you.



COLONEL: AN old man’s folly.



COLONEL: Though I care for you, Abby, it wasn’t me...



COLONEL: ...who brought you flowers every day.



COLONEL: But it was someone you know...



ABBY (thought): These dramatic pauses are gonna...



ABBY (thought): ...put me back in a coma!



CAPTION: To be continued next Friday!


It Was You!

It Was You!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color.

Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.

Past episodes of Abby Amour:

The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.

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SCENE: Abby looks at a photo of the Colonel's home as Colonel Bluster looks on.

LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour



ABBY: Colonel Bluster! It was you!



ABBY: I recognize those lovely flowers...


ABBY: ...from this photo on your desk!


COLONEL: The flowers did come from my house.


COLONEL: But I wasn’t who gave them to you.


ABBY (thought): I sense a dramatic pause.


ABBY (thought): I hate dramatic pauses.


CAPTION: To be continued...next Friday!

1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Lovable Lettering: John Lustig
Writer: Tony Isabella

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Holy Honeysuckle Rose! That’s a Lot of Flowers!

Holy Honeysuckle Rose! That’s a Lot of Flowers!

Tony Isabella’s script for today’s episode called for Abby to be “looking at lots of flowers” in her hospital room. But no such panel existed in the original, published Frank Frazetta story. So I had to get creative.

For the background, I created a room full of flowers via A.I. using Midjourney. You’d think that’d be be easy. But—sheesh! it took me at least 20 gazillion tries to get something that I thought looked right. And even then, I had to add an image of flowers (taken from a photo) to go over the doorway.

Then I clipped a copy of Abby from art we’d already used. Then I placed Abby’s image in a layer over the background of the flowers–carefully positioning her so that she’d block out parts of the art that didn’t fit the script.

Then I added a tint to the overall image to make everything blend together. And then…voila! Done!

Here’s a raw version of the full A.I. art:

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color.

Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.

Past episodes of Abby Amour:

The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.

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ABBY AND THE FLOWERS

IMAGE: Abby is looking at lots of flowers.

LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour

CAPTION: It’s Abby’s last day at the base hospital!

CAPTION: I remember two things from my coma.

CAPTION: There was a man who came to visit every day.

CAPTION: He never gave the nurses his name.

CAPTION: He always brought fresh-cut flowers.

CAPTION: OMG! I think I know who he is!

CAPTION: To be continued next Friday!

1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Background Art: A.I. Magic
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella

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We Read Abby’s Diary

We Read Abby’s Diary

Original Vintage Art & TextThe original art (above) is unusual. Portions of real newspaper columns were apparently pasted onto the art board and then partially whited out. So I’m also posting the published version of the panel (below) so that you can see how it turned out.Art by Frank Frazetta in the story “A Love of My Own” in Personal Love #24, 1953. Published by Eastern Color. Curious to see more?

Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus. The story begins on Page 11.

Past episodes of Abby Amour:

The Abby Amour miniseries runs every Friday. Dialogue by Tony Isabella with re-purposed art by Frank Frazetta. Color by Diego Jourdan Pereira! Lettering, crazy layout and special effects by John Lustig.

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LOGO: The Loves of Abby Amour


COPY: Dear Diary...


COPY: I’m alive. 


COPY: I beat food poisoning and a coma...


COPY: ...and an piece of stinky testosterone...


COPY: ...who nearly ran me over in a jeep.


COPY: PFC Johnny Sacko suggested he could bring me out of my coma with his “little soldier.”


COPY: Nurse Josie kicked the private in the privates.


COPY: She’s a problem solver.


COPY: But there was someone else...


CAPTION: To be continued next Friday!

1953 Art: Frank Frazetta
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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