by John | Feb 4, 2025 | Blog
More Last Kiss fun from Tony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art possibly by Murphy Anderson. From the story “All Aboard for the Moon” in Rangers Comics #64, April 1952. (Fiction House.)
Curious to see more? Click the link above to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicBookPlus.com.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: 1950s-early 1960s. Mom, Dad and Buck are in their TV room. Mom is trying to use a remote control--which clearly didn't exist back then--to change the channel on the old TV. Dad is reading the newspaper. Bucky's face is on the TV screen. Meanwhile the real life Bucky is playing with a train set on the floor.
MOM: Why can’t I change the channel? I want to watch the Golden Bachlorette!
DAD: Sorry, dear, Bucky has the parental controls.
BUCKY: It’s for your own good. I can’t let my mom...watch brain-draining reality TV shows.
Bucky created by Jack Enyart & John Lustig
1952 Art: Murphy Anderson Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Writer: Tony Isabella
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by John | Mar 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the plus side: You didn’t just lose an hour. You traveled forward in time!
Transcript:
SCENE: Harold Lloyd is hanging (barely) onto the minute hand of a large clock that is high above a city street.
Harold: I forget. Do I spring Forward? Or Fall… back?
CAPTION: Daylight Saving Time? Don’t Fall for it!
Image: Harold Lloyd in the 1923 film, Safety Last.
New dialogue by John Lustig
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Harold Lloyd is hanging (barely) onto the minute hand of a large clock that is high above a city street.
Harold: I forget. Do I spring Forward? Or Fall... back?
CAPTION: Daylight Saving Time? Don’t Fall for it!
Image: Harold Lloyd in the 1923 film, Safety Last.
New dialogue by John Lustig
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by John | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve watched (and loved) a lot of silent films over the years. And adding silent movie images to the Last Kiss mix isn’t as unlikely as it might first seem.
In fact, it was the old TV show
Fractured Flickers—which added silly, dubbed dialogue to silent movies—that partially inspired my creation of Last Kiss. It was funny stuff—and no wonder.
Fractured Flickers was created by
Jay Ward, the genius behind the
Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
I’ve got at least one more of these silent screen sillies coming up soon in Last Kiss. I hope people enjoy ’em. I’ve love to do more.
Transcript:
Theda Bara as Cleopatra: Someday my prince will come! But waiting for him is a royal pain…in my plump patrician posterior!
Image: Theda Bara from the 1917 film, Cleopatra.
Dialogue by John Lusig
↓ TranscriptTheda Bara as Cleopatra: Someday my prince will come! But waiting for him is a royal pain...in my plump patrician posterior!
Image: Theda Bara from the 1917 film, Cleopatra.
Dialogue by John Lusig
by John | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized

Art attributed to Jack Kamen from the story “Dangerous Deception” in First Romance Magazine #51, 1958.
Curious about the story this art comes from? You can read the entire story and the rest of the vintage comic book here on the free comics site, ComicBookPlus.com.
Transcript:
SCENE: Woman sitting on couch looking somewhat sad as she holds a newspaper that has a photo of her and a man. The headline under the photo says: Engaged!
WOMAN: No! Of course, I’m not urging you to cheat on me! But, if you do, my agent says he can get us a reality TV show!
1958 Art: Jack Kamen? Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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↓ TranscriptSCENE: Woman sitting on couch looking somewhat sad as she holds a newspaper that has a photo of her and a man. The headline under the photo says: Engaged!
WOMAN: No! Of course, I’m not urging you to cheat on me! But, if you do, my agent says he can get us a reality TV show!
1958 Art: Jack Kamen? Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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