POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroic Doctors...

...despite the foolishness of using himself as a guinea pig, Dr Bobbs has taken the stricken Dr Higgans' work and completed it!

Huzzah!

To provide closure to this plotline, here's the opening page of the next chapter...

Interesting how the kid refers to her as "Miss Luana", not "Doctor Luana" or "Doctor Higgans"!

Does Doctor Luana Higgans ever re-appear?

Wouldn't you like to know?

Unlike most of his comic contemporaries, Dr Bobbs never had a b-movie, a radio series, or even a Big Little Book!

Besides the short run in Dell's Popular Comics anthology title from which this continuity wais re-presented, the good doctor had a one-shot in Dell's Four Color Comics series.

But, since the strip ended in 1949, he hasn't been seen by the public...until now!

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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...please note the AMA is against using yourself to test potential cures~

Huzzah!

Huzzah!

A cure is found!

To be Concluded...
NEXT WEEK!

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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 2

When Last We Left Doctors Bobbs and Higgans...

...don't worry, you will be seeing Dr Higgans in action again!

What is it with fictional doctors willing to be their own guinea pigs?

To be Continued...
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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 1

One of the first "socially relevant" medical-themed comic strips... 

 ...was created by writer Elliot Caplan (brother of Lil' Abner creator Al Capp) and illustrator Jim McArdle in 1940.

The strip was reprinted in comic book format a year or two after appearing in newspapers, combining newly-colored dailies (originally in black and white) with Sunday color strips.

(This was a popular method of reprinting used by almost every strip from Dick Tracy to Blondie to Flash Gordon!)

This chapter from Dell's Popular Comics #94 (1943) introduces the strip's second storyline...

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Not Who You Think WILD "Florence Nightgown"

Almost everyone in medical practice (especially nursing) knows of, and is inspired by...

...the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, OM/RRC/DStJ.

However, our tale today sure as heck ain't about her...

Illustrated by Al Hartley, this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Wild #3 (1954) was typical of the four MAD comic clones (Riot/Snafu/Crazy/Wild) the company had out at the same time!

Each one had a parody of a historical figure, a spoof of a current movie/tv/radio show, a humorous look at a genre like horror/Western/romance/crime, and a couple of 1-2 page features about almost anything!

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