Santa’s My Favorite Mensch

Santa’s My Favorite Mensch

Happy Hanukkah!

Original Vintage Art & Text

Pencils by Dick Giordano? Inks by Vince Colletta. From the story “This Gamble Called Love” in Brides in Love #9, Sept. 1958. (No link this time. The original comic isn’t posted online.)

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SANTA: Actually, I don’t mind working on Christmas! I’m Jewish!

WOMAN: Happy Hanukkah!

1958 Art: Dick Giordano? & Vince Colletta
Santafication: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Santa Scribe: John Lustig

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Dreidel Dilemma

Dreidel Dilemma

Happy Hanukkah from me and my frequent Last Kiss collaborator Mike Pascale!

Art by John Tartaglione from the story “To Stella with Love” from First Kiss #3, 1958.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: A man and a woman kissing.

MAN: The dog ate our dreidel! What can we spin?

WOMAN: The bottle!

CAPTION: HAPPY HANUKKAH

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke: Mike (The Mensch) Pascale

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SCENE: A man and a woman kissing.

MAN: The dog ate our dreidel! What can we spin?

WOMAN: The bottle!

CAPTION: HAPPY HANUKKAH

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke: Mike (The Mensch) Pascale

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Menor, Ah Amour

Menor, Ah Amour

My thanks to Merry Mike Pascale (Last Kiss’s Master of haberdashery) for the addition of the snazzy yarmulke.

Art by John Tartaglione from the story “My Confidence Man” in FIRST KISS #5, 1958.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Man wearing a yarmulke, kissing a woman.

WOMAN (thinking): he can light my menorah anytime!

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke Salesman: Mike Pascale

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SCENE: Man wearing a yarmulke, kissing a woman.

WOMAN (thinking): he can light my menorah anytime!

1958 Art: John Tartaglione Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Yarmulke Salesman: Mike Pascale

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