While her on/off romance with Dr Ames enters another "off" period, Nurse Mary Robin is assigned a new patient, actor Val Stevens, star of the Young Doctor TV series.
The thespian steals a kiss from the RN...but he has an ulterior motive in doing so...
The thespian steals a kiss from the RN...but he has an ulterior motive in doing so...
Trivia: we mentioned yesterday that the splash page (and the cover) of this tale offered a clue as to what was going on!
Read about the transition HERE.
In 1964 (when this story was published in DC's Young Love #49), all the daytime soap operas were recorded on videotape and broadcast in b/w.
So the splash and cover show the Young Nurse TV series characters as they were recorded and transmitted!
Note: As of this posting, we're decreasing frequency to bi-weekly for the foreseeable future.
Though this is the only ongoing blog about medical-related comic books and comic strips in existence, it isn't drawing the audience our other RetroBlogs pull.
There will still be periods (like October for our annual Halloween Hospital Horrors blogathon) when we'll return to weekly posting.
We're watching the hit count, and, if numbers tick up, we'll happily return to weekly status.
Please recommend to your like-minded friends/family/fellow lurkers that they have a look at this blog.
We thank you and we believe they'd thank you as well!
- 1) "Dr Val" is a totally-new character who never appeared before.
- 2) The dialogue was overwrought even for this series!
- 3) The coloring showed what was supposed to be a black-and-white video image!
Read about the transition HERE.
In 1964 (when this story was published in DC's Young Love #49), all the daytime soap operas were recorded on videotape and broadcast in b/w.
So the splash and cover show the Young Nurse TV series characters as they were recorded and transmitted!
Note: As of this posting, we're decreasing frequency to bi-weekly for the foreseeable future.
Though this is the only ongoing blog about medical-related comic books and comic strips in existence, it isn't drawing the audience our other RetroBlogs pull.
There will still be periods (like October for our annual Halloween Hospital Horrors blogathon) when we'll return to weekly posting.
We're watching the hit count, and, if numbers tick up, we'll happily return to weekly status.
Please recommend to your like-minded friends/family/fellow lurkers that they have a look at this blog.
We thank you and we believe they'd thank you as well!
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...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 (not in color, as we're doing, but in black-and-white)!
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