by John | May 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
June is Gay Pride Month. So this seemed like a good way to start off the month. I’ll be running other LGBTQ-themed gags about once a week during June.
By the way, this is the first time I’ve posted this comic on the web. But I actually created it last year and turned it into a fridge magnet for the San Diego Comic-Con. Sales at the Prism Comics booth were…well, super!
Art by Gill Fox from the cover of Crack Comics #26, Nov. 1942.
Transcript:
SCENE: Superhero in short pants, cape and boots is holding an American flag in front of a rainbow-colored background.
CAPTION: Truth, Justice & Fabulous!
1942 Art: Gill Fox Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Superhero in short pants, cape and boots is holding an American flag in front of a rainbow-colored background.
CAPTION: Truth, Justice & Fabulous!
1942 Art: Gill Fox Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Art by Fred Schwab [as Watt A. Mugg] in the Red Rocket story in Phantom Lady #3 (Ajax), April 1955.
Transcript:
SCENE: A masked male superhero with a Last Kiss logo on his check is talking. In the background are many roles of toilet paper.
SUPERHERO: Good news! Toilet paper is back in stores! So, it’s safe to have bean burritos again! Best of all, I’m no longer needed…at the Last Kiss Emergency Wipe Service…Now that demand has bottomed out!
Fred Schwab [as Watt A. Mugg] Re-Creation: Dan McConnell
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A masked male superhero with a Last Kiss logo on his check is talking. In the background are many roles of toilet paper.
SUPERHERO: Good news! Toilet paper is back in stores! So, it’s safe to have bean burritos again! Best of all, I’m no longer needed...at the Last Kiss Emergency Wipe Service...Now that demand has bottomed out!
Fred Schwab [as Watt A. Mugg] Re-Creation: Dan McConnell
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by John | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
More fun from Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella.
Art by Al Avison in the story “Runaway” from Hi-School Romance #54, Aug. 1956.
Transcript:
SCENE: Crying woman carrying a suitcase as she runs.
WOMAN (thinking): *Sob* He got almost everything in the divorce! But I kept what was important to me! A suitcase full of clean underwear…and my scrapbooks of Last Kiss cartoons!
1956 Art: Al Avison Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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Art by Al Avison in the story “Runaway” from Hi-School Romance #54, Aug. 1956.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Crying woman carrying a suitcase as she runs.
WOMAN (thinking): *Sob* He got almost everything in the divorce! But I kept what was important to me! A suitcase full of clean underwear...and my scrapbooks of Last Kiss cartoons!
1956 Art: Al Avison Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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Art by Al Avison in the story "Runaway" from Hi-School Romance #54, Aug. 1956.
by John | Feb 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
More fun from Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella.
Sorry no original art this time!
Transcript:
SCENE: Close up of a red-headed woman wearing a gold bracelet, necklace and earrings.
CAPTION: Glorie knew exactly how to think Richie for this lovely solid gold Fitbit. She’d show the Poor Little Rich guy some steps he’d never even dreamed of!
1957 Artist Unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Close up of a red-headed woman wearing a gold bracelet, necklace and earrings.
CAPTION: Glorie knew exactly how to think Richie for this lovely solid gold Fitbit. She'd show the Poor Little Rich guy some steps he'd never even dreamed of!
1957 Artist Unknown Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Feb 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
More whimsy from Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella—who is confronting “ghostly evil” in real life by running for office!
Art by John Prentice from the story “Bedeviled” in First Love Illustrated #69, Oct. 1956.
SCENE:
SCENE: Woman in a costume (trapeze artist or superhero, take your pick!) is on a stage. She appears to be doing a shimmy with a bunch of cloth behind her posterior. An appreciative audience looks on.
CAPTION: By day, Marissa’s the host of HGTV’s hit series Haunted House Renovation.
CAPTION: By night, she dons her mystic drapery to confront ghostly evil as…
CAPTION: Drapery Doll, the Material Girl Who Closes the Curtains on Evil!*
CAPTION: *Okay, well, she’s still working on her hero name. All the good ones have been taken.
1956 Art: John Prentice Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
Art by John Prentice from the story “Bedeviled” in First Love Illustrated #69, Oct. 1956.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman in a costume (trapeze artist or superhero, take your pick!) is on a stage. She appears to be doing a shimmy with a bunch of cloth behind her posterior. An appreciative audience looks on.
CAPTION: By day, Marissa’s the host of HGTV’s hit series Haunted House Renovation.
CAPTION: By night, she dons her mystic drapery to confront ghostly evil as…
CAPTION: Drapery Doll, the Material Girl Who Closes the Curtains on Evil!*
CAPTION: *Okay, well, she’s still working on her hero name. All the good ones have been taken.
1956 Art: John Prentice Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
Art by John Prentice from the story "Bedeviled" in First Love Illustrated #69, Oct. 1956.
