Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Alex Toth & Mike Peppe from the story “Ring on Her Finger” in Thrilling Romances #24, Jan. 1954. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: Young woman is fleeing and crying as she carries books with one arm/hand while she crumbles up some papers in the other hand. A man looks on in the background,
MAN: So, you failed sex ed…again?
WOMAN: Yes! Now <Sob> I’ll never find out what a penis is!
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Graduated with Honors: John Lustig
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SCENE: Young woman is fleeing and crying as she carries books with one arm/hand while she crumbles up some papers in the other hand. A man looks on in the background,
MAN: So, you failed sex ed...again?
WOMAN: Yes! Now <Sob> I’ll never find out what a penis is!
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Graduated with Honors: John Lustig
DJP.lk492
MAN: So, you failed sex ed...again?
WOMAN: Yes! Now <Sob> I’ll never find out what a penis is!
1954 Art: Alex Toth & Mike Peppe
Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Graduated with Honors: John Lustig
DJP.lk492
I think that boy needs to be slapped.
I agree. He looks like he deserves a hearty face-slap!
In both of ‘em, the colors of the face and the hanky were so close that my first thought was, “Why is she pulling the skin off her face like that!?” Okay, that’s weird, yes, but…
Hmm. I’d assumed that she was holding a crumbled-up piece of paper. But I just took another look at the original story and there’s nothing there to fully explain what it is. Given that she’s crying, it probably is a hanky!
As for weirdness, Gale, well that’s nearly always appropriate for Last Kiss!
It may just be me,, but does an anthropomorphic head of cauliflower really need to know what a penis looks like?
Heads of cauliflower don’t need to know a lot. But if those heads are giving head? Then yes!