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.
by John | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Art by Nick Cardy from “Good-Time Girl” in My Real Love #5, 1952.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman holding her right hand, forefinger to her temple.
CAPTION: Medium Rare Maid (aka “The Clairvoyant Cutie”) must use her mysterious, mental powers to catch the craven culprit who killed Colonel Mustard in the
library with a “cattle prod!”*
CAPTION: *It wasn’t a sex toy–honest!
WOMAN: I sense the suspect’s obsessed with sex! So that narrows it down to…
WOMAN: <Gulp>
WOMAN: …everyone!
1952 Art: Nick Cardy New Inking & Color: Allen Freeman
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↓ TranscriptTranscript:
SCENE: Woman holding her right hand, forefinger to her temple.
CAPTION: Medium Rare Maid (aka “The Clairvoyant Cutie”) must use her mysterious, mental powers to catch the craven culprit who killed Colonel Mustard in the
library with a “cattle prod!”*
CAPTION: *It wasn’t a sex toy--honest!
WOMAN: I sense the suspect’s obsessed with sex! So that narrows it down to...
WOMAN: <Gulp>
WOMAN: …everyone!
1952 Art: Nick Cardy New Inking & Color: Allen Freeman
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by John | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
For those of you who don’t read comics (or minds), Charles Xavier is “Professor X”—the telepathic leader of Marvel’s mutant X-Men.
Not that this is a test, but—bonus points if you know why the woman in today’s Last Kiss comic can’t be writer Tony Isabella’s Marvel character Misty Knight.
Pencils by Mike Sekowsky from the story “Date with Scandal” Pencils in Intimate Love #28, Aug. 1954.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman holding her hand up to her forehead.
WOMAN (thinks): What an incredible telepathic booty call! Maybe this long-distance thing…with Charles Xavier…can work out after all!
1954 Art: Mike Sekowsky Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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Pencils by Mike Sekowsky from the story “Date with Scandal” Pencils in Intimate Love #28, Aug. 1954.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman holding her hand up to her forehead.
WOMAN (thinks): What an incredible telepathic booty call! Maybe this long-distance thing...with Charles Xavier...can work out after all!
1954 Art: Mike Sekowsky Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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Pencils by Mike Sekowsky from the story "Date with Scandal" Pencils in Intimate Love #28, Aug. 1954.
by John | Dec 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Art by Lee Elias for Hi-School Romance #23 – Oct. 1953.
Transcript:
SCENE: A woman is crying in the background as another woman and a man sit and kiss on the grass in the foreground.
CRYING WOMAN (thinking): I’ll never give up on my dream! Someday I’ll be in the fore-ground…of a Last Kiss cartoon!
1953 Art: Lee Elias Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: A woman is crying in the background as another woman and a man sit and kiss on the grass in the foreground.
CRYING WOMAN (thinking): I’ll never give up on my dream! Someday I’ll be in the fore-ground...of a Last Kiss cartoon!
1953 Art: Lee Elias Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Guest Writer: Tony Isabella
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