Playboy#5
Playboy #5
“Exotica”
"Exotica" is a striking, intimate short story from 1968, written, drawn, and inked by Bob Zahn, capturing a moment of quiet tension as two strangers—each fleeing their own domestic entanglements—find themselves suspended on a narrow ledge between apartments. The story unfolds with a rare, grounded intensity, focusing on the fragile connection formed in a single, charged instant.
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writer, artist, inker Bob Zahn
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writer, artist, inker Bob Zahn
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A man and a woman meet on the building ledge between adjacent apartments. The man is outside because his lover's husband came home, the women is outside because her lover's wife came home.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).