Hot Dog HARRY HOTDOG "Pink of Condition"

Yes, this is a "funny animal" story.

And, no, it's not about veterinarians!

Despite the anthropomorphic animals, the "physical exam required for a job" plot for this never-reprinted story from Magazine Enterprises' Hot Dog #1 (1954) could easily have been used (and likely was) in any humor comics starring human characters!
Note: Writer-artist George Crenshaw started as an animator for Walt Disney and MGM, but switched to print media in the late 1940s, doing comic books, gag cartoons and illustrations for magazines, and advertising art for the rest of his career.
I wanted to do something a little different for the final post of the year..
What do you think?

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "Cry for Love!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Favorite RN...

Note: this scene hasn't happened...yet!

Nurse Mary Robin has just flashbacked to some of her most traumatic romantic encounters since taking a job at the hospital!

But, if that's not depressing enough, fellow nurse Connie cries on her shoulder about her own problems of the heart...

If Mary and Connie are "typical" of the nurses at County General, does anyone else out there think the entire nursing staff needs intensive therapy, STAT?

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Young Love

...which reprints the complete first part of the comic's run from 39 to 56, including the entire Private Diary of Mary Robin R.N. strip (in B/W, not color, as we're doing)!

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "Cry for Love!" Part 1

Once more, we peek into Nurse Mary Robin's diary...
...to see what our favorite neurotic/obsessive compulsive/nymphomaniac RN is up to!




Actually, this tale from DC's Young Love #47 (1965) continues tomorrow!
Interestingly, though the flashbacks reference previous stories, there are no footnotes listing which issues they appeared in!

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Showcase Presents
Young Love

...which reprints the complete first part of the comic's run from 39 to 56, including the entire Private Diary of Mary Robin R.N. strip (in B/W, not color, as we're doing)!

Military Medicine G.I. COMBAT "Medic in the Dark"

Though medics are supposed to be non-combatants...

...there are times when, to protect life, you have to take life!

Written by Robert Kanigher under the pen-name "Bart Regan" (who was a DC Comics character!) and illustrated by Ric Estrada, this never-reprinted story from DC's G.I. Combat #186 (1976) does pose an ethical dilemma...should a non-combatant defend himself and his helpless charges with lethal force?

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Our Artists at War

Best of the Best American War Comics

Featuring tales from DC, Timely/Atlas/Marvel, EC, Harvey, Fawcett, Quality, Warren, etc.

CoronaVirus Comics NELLIE THE NURSE "Busman's Holiday"

Before teen books like the Archie line dominated humor comics...

...there were...I suppose you'd call them..."young adult" humor comics like this one!

BTW, this opening panel's situation does not appear in the story...

In many ways, these comics are the screwball comedy b-movies / TV situation comedies of their era, as this never-reprinted tale from Timely's Nellie the Nurse #2 (1946) demonstrates!

Nellie had a healthy 36-issue run from 1945 to 1954.

She also popped up as a back-up feature in Willie Comics, Comedy Comics, and Millie the Model from time to time.

BTW, we mentioned Archie Comics earlier in this post.

When Nellie was revived in the late 1950s by Timely's successor, Atlas Comics, guess what style she was drawn in?

Saw that one coming, didn't ya?

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Nurse Nellie's Belly Laughs

CoronaVirus Comics: Medical Comics You SHOULD Know About...

Last week we presented No Ordinary Flu by co-writer Meredith Li-Vollmer...

After appearing at a San Diego Comic-Con panel in 2016...

I’ve been developing public health comics since 2008, when award-winning Seattle comics artist David Lasky and I created No Ordinary Flu, a comic book that evolved from my work trying to raise awareness of the potential catastrophic nature of a severe influenza pandemic.
It’s hard to interest people in health warnings about an illness that comes around every year, and presenting the information in a standard fact sheet did little to raise their awareness.
But by using comics to tell the story of a family living through the influenza pandemic of 1918, the issue takes on emotional weight and urgency.
A narrative grounds the information in what happens to the characters.
Suddenly, a crisis that seemed abstract and distant becomes much more concrete and human.

David and I have since done a number of other projects for the health department, including Survivor Tales, a comic book series featuring real-life survivors of disasters telling their stories, and shorter comic strips such as Home with Flu.
Outside of the health department, I collaborated with a group of local comics artists and scholars on Comics 4 Health Coverage, project that invited people to tell why health insurance matters in four comic panels.
Yes, I’ve done some comics for kids, Ready Freddie and Disaster Buddies.
And we aren’t alone in our quirky endeavors. Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Emergency Medical Services has developed a comic book for the Chinese community about how to call 9-1-1. King County’s Local Hazardous Waste program and 4Culture worked with comics artist Edie Everette on a HazMatters comic book.
The Annals of Internal Medicine regularly features comics that detail the experiences of medical providers.

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Dr Yolandra Landry, Pharm. D

Crescent City Chronicles: Part 2

CoronaVirus Comics NO ORDINARY FLU

Just over a century ago, a terrible pandemic swept through the world...

...but the response by Americans was far, far different than in 2022!

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Published in 2008, this comic was distributed for free throughout the state of Washington.

As co-writer Meredith Li-Vollmer explained after appearing at a San Diego Comic-Con panel in 2016...

I’ve been developing public health comics since 2008, when award-winning Seattle comics artist David Lasky and I created No Ordinary Flu, a comic book that evolved from my work trying to raise awareness of the potential catastrophic nature of a severe influenza pandemic.
It’s hard to interest people in health warnings about an illness that comes around every year, and presenting the information in a standard fact sheet did little to raise their awareness.
But by using comics to tell the story of a family living through the influenza pandemic of 1918, the issue takes on emotional weight and urgency.
A narrative grounds the information in what happens to the characters.
Suddenly, a crisis that seemed abstract and distant becomes much more concrete and human.

There's more to the story, as you'll see next Friday!

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Dr Yolandra Landry, Pharm. D

Crescent City Chronicles: Part 2