It’s Easy to Be Difficult

It’s Easy to Be Difficult

I hate it when women beat me with rolling pins. Make pies, not wars.

Art by Matt Baker from Anchors Andrews #1, January 1953. Click image to enlarge.

Transcript:

SCENE: Angry woman with rolling pin.

WOMAN: You think I’m easy? Mister, you’re about to find out how difficult I can be!

1953 Art: Matt Baker Re-Creation: Kirsten Wilson

Art Code: KW.lk14

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SCENE: Angry woman with rolling pin.

WOMAN: You think I’m easy? Mister, you’re about to find out how difficult I can be!

1953 Art: Matt Baker Re-Creation: Kirsten Wilson

Art Code: KW.lk14

Nude Picnic

Nude Picnic

I’m trying to decide what not to wear today.

Art by Art Saaf & Mike Peppe from the story “Kiss and Run” in NEW ROMANCES #14, 1952.

 

Transcript:
SCENE: Woman in front of a picnic-style checkered pattern.

WOMAN: A nude picnic? B-but I don’t have anything nice to not wear!

1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

Art Code: DJP.lk310

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Transcript:
SCENE: Woman in front of a picnic-style checkered pattern.

WOMAN: A nude picnic? B-but I don’t have anything nice to not wear!

1952 Art: Art Saaf & Mike Peppe Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

Art Code: DJP.lk310

Movie Quotes: All The King’s Men

Movie Quotes: All The King’s Men

Is he a jerk? The answer is staring you in the face!

Art by Nick Cardy from the story “Good-Time Girl” in My Real Love #5, 1952.

 

Transcript:
WOMAN: Was she pretty?
MAN: How should I know? I wasn’t looking at her…face!*

1952 Artist: Nick Cardy Figure Restoration & Color: Allen Freeman
*Dialogue adapted from the 1949 movie All the King’s Men

Art Code: MyRL5.18.2

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Transcript:
WOMAN: Was she pretty?
MAN: How should I know? I wasn't looking at her…face!*

1952 Artist: Nick Cardy Figure Restoration & Color: Allen Freeman
*Dialogue adapted from the 1949 movie All the King’s Men

Art Code: MyRL5.18.2

More Amor

More Amor

Art by Matt Baker from the cover of CRIME REPORTER #3, 1948. Click image to enlarge.

 

Transcript:
Startled/Afraid Woman in a slinky cocktail dress: Oh, no! it’s my boyfriend! And he’s with my girlfriend! And my other boyfriend! And is that… one of my husbands?

1948 Art: Matt Baker Re-Creation: Kirsten Wilson

Art Code: KW.lk18

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Transcript:
Startled/Afraid Woman in a slinky cocktail dress: Oh, no! it’s my boyfriend! And he’s with my girlfriend! And my other boyfriend! And is that... one of my husbands?

1948 Art: Matt Baker Re-Creation: Kirsten Wilson

Art Code: KW.lk18

Do I Smell…Love?

Do I Smell…Love?

Sometimes love stinks.

Art by Al Avison from the cover of Hi-School Romance #24, December 1953.

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Man and woman embracing and kissing passionately.

MAN (thinking): I’d kill for a breath mint!

WOMAN: (thinking): Does he know…I farted?

1953 Art: Al Avison        Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira

Art Code: DJP.lk462

↓ Transcript
SCENE: Man and woman embracing and kissing passionately.
MAN (thinking): I’d kill for a breath mint!
WOMAN: (thinking): Does he know...I farted?
1953 Art: Al Avison Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Art Code: DJP.lk462
Art by Al Avison from the cover of Hi-School Romance #24, December 1953.