by John | Nov 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new tale of comic lust from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Art Cappello from Secret Romance #21, Oct. 1972. Charlton Comics. (No link this time. I can’t find a copy of the comic online.)
Transcript:
SCENE: A man dressed as Green Arrow (or Robin Hood) and a woman dressed up as Black Canary are kissing.
GREEN ARROW: Oh, Bleak Canary, why is your kiss so cold?
BLACK CANARY: Oh, Lean Arrow, it’s because your shaft…always reaches its target…before I do!
1972 Art: Art Cappello Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A man dressed as Green Arrow (or Robin Hood) and a woman dressed up as Black Canary are kissing.
GREEN ARROW: Oh, Bleak Canary, why is your kiss so cold?
BLACK CANARY: Oh, Lean Arrow, it’s because your shaft...always reaches its target...before I do!
1972 Art: Art Cappello Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Yes, there were western-themed romance comics back in the 1950s. Actually, quite a few. It was a fairly popular hybrid of the two genres!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Transcript:
SCENE: Photo of a cowboy and cowgirl holding and examining a lasso together.
COWBOY: After you tie me up, I’ll be a helpless slave…to your wildest, sexiest fantasies! So let’s set up a “safe word!” After all, you don’t want to hurt me!
COWGIRL (thinking): Wanna bet?
Photo from the cover of Romantic Secrets #19, 1951.
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Photo of a cowboy and cowgirl holding and examining a lasso together.
COWBOY: After you tie me up, I’ll be a helpless slave...to your wildest, sexiest fantasies! So let’s set up a “safe word!” After all, you don’t want to hurt me!
COWGIRL (thinking): Wanna bet?
Photo from the cover of Romantic Secrets #19, 1951
Dialogue & Lettering: John Lustig
by John | Nov 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “His Future Bride” in Brides in Love #10, Nov. 1958. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: A smiling woman walks away from a stunned man.
WOMAN: I’ve learned to love myself! And frankly I do a better job of it than you!
1958 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writing & Lettering: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A smiling woman walks away from a stunned man.
WOMAN: I’ve learned to love myself! And frankly I do a better job of it than you!
1958 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writing & Lettering: John Lustig
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by John | Nov 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Today’s art comes from Pin-Up Pete, a one-shot comic that collected many of the Pin-Up Pete pages that appeared in various early 1950s comics published by Toby. The feature was nominally about a soldier with the moniker “Pin-Up Pete” who told tales about his encounters with various vivacious fems. But, as you no-doubt guessed, it was mainly an excuse to post some pin-up drawings.
Because it may be hard to decipher the text in the original art, I’ve re-typed it below:
When the Earth is harder than a pawnbroker’s heart…when the icicles hang from a man’s nostrils like lace from a Spanish shawl…when the words freeze in a Marine’s throat before the first syllable is formed…
What’s to do about it?
Pin-up Pete has the answer. “Gather around yer Uncle Pete,” he calls out to his half frozen buddies, “an warm the cockles o’ yer hearts wit’ the hamburger-hot details o’ me adventures wit’ the opposite sex—-dames to you—-which make their livin’ doin’ men’s jobs in the daytime…but who, at night, is one hunnert percent female!!
Art by Jack Sparling from Pin-Up Pete, 1952. Published by Toby. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
Three male soldiers in combat gear. Two of them are smoking. One of the soldiers blows out a puff of smoke that is in the form of a shapely woman.
CAPTION: Sometimes even a wisp of smoke can stir the imagination and lift weary hearts!
SOLDIER #1: Wow! so many curves! reminds me of my girlfriend!
SOLDIER #2: Keep your pants on, Junior! That’s my mom!
Happy Veterans Day
1952 Artist: Jack Sparling New Dialogue: John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptThree male soldiers in combat gear. Two of them are smoking. One of the soldiers blows out a puff of smoke that is in the form of a shapely woman.
CAPTION: Sometimes even a wisp of smoke can stir the imagination and lift weary hearts!
SOLDIER #1: Wow! so many curves! reminds me of my girlfriend!
SOLDIER #2: Keep your pants on, Junior! That’s my mom!
Happy Veterans Day
1952 Artist: Jack Sparling New Dialogue: John Lustig
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by John | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “I Chose Heartbreak” in FIRST KISS #37, 1964. Click link to read the entire vintage comic book for free.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman in a nightgown sitting at her breakfast table drinking coffee.
WOMAN: I’m not addicted to coffee! But some mornings I like to have a little in my first whiskey!
Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman in a nightgown sitting at her breakfast table drinking coffee.
WOMAN: I’m not addicted to coffee! But some mornings I like to have a little in my first whiskey!
Art: Vince Colletta Studio Color: Allen Freeman
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