Monkeying Around

Monkeying Around

If you enjoyed today’s Last Kiss, check out Alter Ego #19. That issue of the magazine features several Last Kiss jungle-themed comics that I’ve done. It’ll be in comic shops Dec. 18, 2024.

Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by Dan Zolnerowich from the cover of Jungle Comics #19, July 1941. Published by Fiction House.

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SCENE: In the jungle, a Tarzan-like man is punching an ape as an upset woman looks on.

MAN: Simian, sex fiend! How dare you paw her?

APE: Hey! We were just monkeying around!

WOMAN: Stop hitting him, you brainless baboon! He’s more of a man than you’ll ever be...‘though, I admit, he does turn into a real beast......whenever
I eat a banana! But then...most men do!



Tzarzan vs. the Savage Simian Suitors

Tzarzan vs. the Savage Simian Suitors

 

Art by Will Eisner from the cover of Jungle Comics #5, May 1940, published by Fiction House.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Beautiful seductress in a slinky dress is standing in front of a skull cave as her subjects (armed ape men) fight with and menace Tzarzan—a Tarzan-like man in a leopard loincloth. In the background, a young woman is held captive by another ape man.

SEDUCTRESS: Prove your love, Tzarzan! Defeat my savage simian suitors! And I’ll go to second base with you!

TZARZAN: Lady, you’ve got a strange idea of foreplay!

1940 Art: Will Eisner Art Clean Up & Dialogue: John Lustig

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SCENE: Beautiful seductress in a slinky dress is standing in front of a skull cave as her subjects (armed ape men) fight with and menace Tzarzan---a Tarzan-like man in a leopard loincloth. In the background, a young woman is held captive by another ape man.

SEDUCTRESS: Prove your love, Tzarzan! Defeat my savage simian suitors! And I’ll go to second base with you!

TZARZAN: Lady, you’ve got a strange idea of foreplay!

1940 Art: Will Eisner Art Clean Up & Dialogue: John Lustig

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Cruella de Sheena

Cruella de Sheena

I’d love to add a laugh track to this consisting entirely of hyenas guffaws. Hyenas love a good joke—or even a mediocre one.

Art by Joe Doolin from the cover of Jumbo 105 (Fiction House), Nov. 1947.

 

 

Transcript:

SCENE: Wearing a skimpy, leopard skin outfit, Sheena battles what appears to be a native woman who is either a priestess or chieftess. The native woman—who like Sheena—wears a skimpy outfit. She’s holding a spear that Sheena is trying to wrest away from here. Meanwhile a pack of angry and apparently hungry hyenas are rush towards a man who is tied to a stake in the background.

NATIVE WOMAN: You can’t stop me…or my hyenas, Sheena!

SHEENA: I don’t want to stop them! I want to wear them!

CAPTION: Watch for Sheena in Disney’s new, laugh-filled masterpiece:101 Hyenas

1947 Pencils: Joe Doolin
Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig ©2020 Last Kiss Inc

ART: Jumbo 105 Cover

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SCENE: Wearing a skimpy, leopard skin outfit, Sheena battles what appears to be a native woman who is either a priestess or chieftess. The native woman---who like Sheena---wears a skimpy outfit. She's holding a spear that Sheena is trying to wrest away from here. Meanwhile a pack of angry and apparently hungry hyenas are rush towards a man who is tied to a stake in the background.

NATIVE WOMAN: You can’t stop me…or my hyenas, Sheena!

SHEENA: I don’t want to stop them! I want to wear them!

CAPTION: Watch for Sheena in Disney’s new, laugh-filled masterpiece:101 Hyenas

1947 Pencils: Joe Doolin
Restoration & New Dialogue: John Lustig ©2020 Last Kiss Inc

ART: Jumbo 105 Cover