Art by Matt Baker from Canteen Kate #2, Aug. 1952.
Transcript:
WOMAN: I’m looking for the world’s sexiest man! Are you him? Oddly, most men say “yes!”
1952 Art: Matt Baker Re-Creation: Kirsten Wilson
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Art by the Vince Colletta Studio from the story “The Barren Years” Page 5 in First Kiss #32, June 1963.
Art by the Vince Colletta Studio from the story “The Barren Years” Top of Page 6 in First Kiss #32, June 1963.
Transcript:
CAPTION: Do you have a super power? And, if so, what is it?
Super strength, super speed, the ability to see through women’s clothing…they’re all so common! So obvious! But what if your power is more obscure? For instance…
SCENE, Panel 1: A man and a woman are in their bathing suits next to a swimming pool. The man grasps the woman’s shoulder.
MAN: It’s your lucky day, doll! Your dreamboat just sailed into port! And I’m ready to drop my anchor!
WOMAN (thinking): Ugh! It’s Hal! The other girls warned me…but I never dreamed it would be this bad! I don’t want to be rude, but…
SCENE, Panel 2: Woman pushes man into the swimming pool.
WOMAN: Shove off, sailor!
MAN (thinking): <Groan!> Whatever my secret power is…it’s not super popularity! Why can’t I ever get
a date?
CAPTION: So goes the latest heartbreaking saga of Major Halitosis…the hero without a clue!
Stay tuned for the next exciting adventure…“If This Breath Mint Be Mine!”
Art by the Vince Colletta Studio
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Art by Nick Caputo from Hi-School Romance #34, Dec. 1954.
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SCENE: Woman comforting a bandaged male football player as he’s carried off the field on a stretcher.
FOOTBALL PLAYER: B-but I didn’t score!
WOMAN: That’s okay! I was rooting for the other team!
1954 Art: Nick Caputo Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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Happy Labor Day! And many thanks to my hard-working pal Mike Pascale for both the help on today’s joke and the additions to the art.
Artist unknown. Art from GREAT LOVER ROMANCE #16, 1954.
Transcript:
SCENE: Man wearing a hardhat is kissing the neck of a woman who has her eyes closed.
MAN: My Labor Day project?it’s…you!
WOMAN: Then work me, baby! Work me hard!
1954 Artist Unknown Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Hard Hat, Hard Laughs & Hard Labor: Mike Pascale
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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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