by John | Oct 19, 2025 | Blog
Curious to see more of the vintage art?
Click the link to read the entire vintage comic book for free on ComicbookPlus.
↓ TranscriptWOMAN: Sure! You can paint me nude! But...aren’t you going to be chilly?
1955 Artist: Unknown Restoration & color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
All the Nudes Fit to Print: John Lustig
Original Art: From "You Can't Make Believe!" in Bride’s Secrets #9
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by John | Jan 21, 2025 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Man kissing the side of a woman's neck. She has her eyes closed in rapture.
MAN: This is the best honeymoon I’ve ever had!
WOMAN: Same here. But next time let’s try...marrying each other!
Artist Unknown Restoration & Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
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by John | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by John Tartaglione from the story “Paris Interlude” in Brides in Love #8, June 1958. Published by Charlton.
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↓ TranscriptWOMAN (thinking): Oh, no! I forgot to marry...uh, what's-his-name?
1958 Art: John Tartaglione Re-Creation: Diego Jourdan Pereira
What’s My Name: John Lustig
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by John | Aug 22, 2024 | Blog
More Last Kiss fun byTony Isabella & Diego Jourdan Pereira!
Original Vintage Art & Text

Art by H.B. Gordon from Romantic Illustration magazine, 1922. (No link available to the original magazine.)

↓ TranscriptBRIDE TO GROOM: Oh, darling. I’m so gosh darn happy to be married at last...I’d totally consummate our bond...if only we could do it...without mussing our makeup!
1922 Art: H. B. Gordon New Color: Diego Jourdan Pereira
Pretty Words: Tony Isabella
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by John | Sep 26, 2023 | Blog
More fun from fan “fine jams and jellies since 1982!”
Original Vintage Art & Text

Artist unknown. From the story “The Love that Failed” in First Kiss #25, 1962.
No link because this issue isn’t available online.
↓ TranscriptSCENE: Bride and groom about to kiss in a church.
BRIDE: And, best of all, we have so much in common!
GROOM: Yeah. We’re both sleeping with the best man!
1962 Artist Unknown Color: Allen Freeman
Writer: “fine jams and jellies since 1982”
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