A new Last Kiss by Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by John Celardo from the story “Stand-In for Love” in Intimate Love #24, Sept. 1953. Curious to see more? Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book.
Transcript:
SCENE: A woman is packing a suitcase. In the background, an old-fashioned rotary telephone rings.
WOMAN: What is that thing?!
WOMAN: Why does it making that awful sound?
CAPTION: Thus the rotary dial phone…
CAPTION: …fades from human memory.
SOUND EFFECT: BR-RRRINGG!
1953 Art: John Celardo Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk646
With Ukrainian Flag
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SCENE: A woman is packing a suitcase. In the background, an old-fashioned rotary telephone rings.
WOMAN: What is that thing?!
WOMAN: Why does it making that awful sound?
CAPTION: Thus the rotary dial phone...
CAPTION: ...fades from human memory.
SOUND EFFECT: BR-RRRINGG!
1953 Art: John Celardo Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk646
With Ukrainian Flag
WOMAN: What is that thing?!
WOMAN: Why does it making that awful sound?
CAPTION: Thus the rotary dial phone...
CAPTION: ...fades from human memory.
SOUND EFFECT: BR-RRRINGG!
1953 Art: John Celardo Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
DJP.lk646
With Ukrainian Flag
My grandparents had that model of phone.
If it wasn’t for old movies, the candlestick phone which took two hands to hold and operate would be totally gone by now. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Candlestick_phone.JPG
In my first apartment in the early 70’s I was able get a candle stick phone. Kind of a PITA on long calls.
In the 70s most people round here had Ericofon:
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/1151
Kind of surprised you don’t see them in comic strips…