Friday, November 28, 2025

Best of Medical Comics & Stories DR PAT: The First Female Doctor to Have Her Own Comic Series!

Debuting in DC's Sensation Comics #94 (1949)...

...Dr Pat was a radical concept for the era, an independent female doctor equal to any male MD, and not obsessed with romance!
In fact, romance was usually the last thing on her mind!
She was too busy battling crime...
...Commies...
...even rampaging robots!
And when she did get involved in romantic situations, it was usually to assist someone else!
Created as part of the rebooting of Wonder Woman's original home, Sensation Comics into an all-female series book!
She lasted longer than any of the other secondary features including Romance: Inc, Headline Heroines, Astra: Girl of the Future, and Beautiful, But Not Dumb!
When Sensation Comics was rebooted again, this time with an entirely-new line-up in #107 (1952), Dr Pat and Wonder Woman both lost their strips...though Princess Diana continued in her own book!
Except for a couple of reprints in the back of Superman's Girl Friend: Lois Lane, almost the entire comics world forgot all about Dr Pat!
But we didn't!
In fact, she was our very first post, and our first ongoing series!
So, when you have a moment, check her her out!
She's a bit of comics history who doesn't deserve to be forgotten!

Friday, November 21, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "I Can't Breathe"

Here's Dr Dazzler's Final Improvised Medical Miracle...

...illustrated by returning artist Gene Colan!


It's odd that this never-reprinted story from Dell's Ben Casey #8 (1963-4) and the previous Dr Dan Dazzler tale illustrated by Gene Colan (shown HERE) feature the same basic plot...Dr Dan desperately needs rest, but circumstances keep him on his feet, heloping people!
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Friday, November 14, 2025

I AM LEGEND: AWAKENINGS "Losing Voice: Ethan's Story"

 When the post-apocalyptic pandemic movie I Am Legend opened in 2007...

...this comic, which combined both new material and adaptations of several motion comics from the film's website was distributed to comic stores and movie theaters!
Written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz, this was the first of four prequel stories set in the movie's universe.
It was not part of the animated series.
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(But not the 1960s Vincent Price adaptation.
That one, you can get here...)

Friday, November 7, 2025

CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Man in My Past!"

Warning: the story under this Ken Bald-illustrated cover is about an incurable disease...
...but it's not the incurable disease you'll think it is after the first few pages!
So he's not cured, but in remission, though the doctor says the operation was a "complete success"!
Written by editor Richard E Hughes and illustrated by Howard Alexander, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the LoveLorn #57 (1955) tries to make Alan honorable, even noble!
But instead of being honest with his wife, he all-but-abandoned her and then returned years later expecting her to take him back!

Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween Hospital Horrors DRACULA "Invasion"

Disease Takes Many Forms...

...as this rather bizarre one-shot feature demonstrates!
Kool, eh?
Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's DrĆ”cula V1N5 (1971)!
It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine, and as a standalone tale in full-color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!
So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!
Trivia: Despite being named "Dracula", the magazine had no Dracula content, except for a one-page humor strip on the back cover without captions or dialogue!
Ironically, it was the one strip not reprinted in the British or American editions...despite not needing translation!
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(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)
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Best of Medical Comics & Stories DR PAT: The First Female Doctor to Have Her Own Comic Series!

Debuting in DC's Sensation Comics #94 (1949)... ... Dr Pat was a radical concept for the era, an independent female doctor equal to an...