Comics | Last Kiss

Caffeine to the Rescue

by John | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog

Many cups of java and thanks to my pal Mike Pascale for “zombifying” this art.

(I can’t remember which of us came up with the gag. Often it’s a joint effort.)

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Vince Colletta Studio from the story “Second Time Around” in First Kiss #33, Aug. 1963. Charlton Comics. The story begins on Page 23.

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PANEL #1 SCENE: A woman zombie is about the drink a cup of coffee.

SOUND EFFECT: SLURP!

PANEL #2 SCENE: The woman has drunk some coffee and is now alive and human.

WOMAN (thinking): I'm dead 'til my first cup!

I’m
dead ‘til
my first cup!

1963 Art: Vince Colletta Studio Restoration: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Zombification: Mike Pascale Caffeine Cravings: Pascale & Lustig

What Monsters Fear!

by John | Oct 10, 2023 | Blog

So, I’m officially launching the Last Kiss Halloween and horror gags for this year! Most will be brand new. A few—because I’m having cataract surgery this week and again later in the month—will be re-runs. So let the giggles (and groaning) begin!

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SCENE: A female vampire, Frankenstein's monster and a human skeleton are in a graveyard. A witch is flying on a broomstick in the sky.
VAMPIRE: Halloween used to be such good, clean fun! Murders! Blood baths! Mars bars! But now…Now we just terrorize Last Kiss readers with ghastly gags!

Frankenstein's Monster: If I wasn’t already dead, I’d die of shame!

SKELETON: Ugh! Lustig’s humor wears me down to the bone!

WITCH: Watta buncha cry babies! Don’t they know…life’s a witch!

Art: A.I. Witchcraft Monstrous Mirth: John Lustig

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