No More Honeymoons
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Runaway Bride
More Last Kiss fun from Jenny Blake & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
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LAST KISS DJP.lk9—This and all below this are lettered.
BLURB: Coming soon to the Learning Channel…
LOGO (open): RUNAWAY BRIDE: THE SERIES!
BLURB: Every week a new broken heart!
BLURB: Every week a new sexy gown!
BLURB: Starring some Kardashian as “The Bolting Bride”
BLURB: Starring Dean Cain as this week’s “Poor Sap”
BLURB: Featuring Danny DeVito as the “Ring Boy”
BLURB: It’s a race for romance and the crashes…
BLURB: ...will be spectacular!
1962 Art: Joe Sinnott & Vince Colletta Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Jenny Blake
Original Art: From Brides in Love #29
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BLURB: Coming soon to the Learning Channel…
LOGO (open): RUNAWAY BRIDE: THE SERIES!
BLURB: Every week a new broken heart!
BLURB: Every week a new sexy gown!
BLURB: Starring some Kardashian as “The Bolting Bride”
BLURB: Starring Dean Cain as this week’s “Poor Sap”
BLURB: Featuring Danny DeVito as the “Ring Boy”
BLURB: It’s a race for romance and the crashes…
BLURB: ...will be spectacular!
1962 Art: Joe Sinnott & Vince Colletta Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Jenny Blake
Original Art: From Brides in Love #29
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Naked Innocence
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WOMAN: Sure! You can paint me nude! But...aren’t you going to be chilly?
1955 Artist: Unknown Restoration & color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
All the Nudes Fit to Print: John Lustig
Original Art: From "You Can't Make Believe!" in Bride’s Secrets #9
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1955 Artist: Unknown Restoration & color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
All the Nudes Fit to Print: John Lustig
Original Art: From "You Can't Make Believe!" in Bride’s Secrets #9
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Bridal Oops
Behind the Scenes
Funny romance comic covers are rare. This one from 1956 was published without any dialogue. And it’s a great sight gag–even without dialogue.
But since this is Last Kiss I added text anyway to try and ramp up the joke. As often happens, I went through several rewrites before I was satisfied.
For the fun of it, here’s my first attempt at the gag (See below.) I thought it was too wordy and not quite twisted enough!
My first attempt at this gag–a little too wordy and not quite twisted enough.
Original Vintage Art & Text
Pencils by Dick Giordano? Inks by Dick Giordano from the cover of Brides in Love #1, Aug. 1956. Published by Charlton Comics.
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SCENE: Bride and groom are leaving when her small luggage opens and we see a photo of another man spilling out.
GROOM: That’s...my best man!
BRIDE: Yours? Can’t we share him?
1956 Inks (& possibly pencils too): Dick Giordano
Picture Perfect: John Lustig
Brides in Love #1.0.Cropped
GROOM: That’s...my best man!
BRIDE: Yours? Can’t we share him?
1956 Inks (& possibly pencils too): Dick Giordano
Picture Perfect: John Lustig
Brides in Love #1.0.Cropped
Leap Year Love
Original Vintage Art & Text
Art by Vince Colletta from the story “Involuntary Bride” from First Kiss #40, 1965. Charlton. The story begins on Page 24.
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SCENE: An woman (the bride's mother?) is helping a young bride with the bride's wedding dress.
BRIDE: I want to be ready! I’m proposing today! And he might say, “yes!”
1965 Art: Vince Colletta Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Said Yes: John Lustig
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BRIDE: I want to be ready! I’m proposing today! And he might say, “yes!”
1965 Art: Vince Colletta Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Said Yes: John Lustig
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FK40.6.4.4
