Saturday, May 20, 2023

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "Love I Never Held!" Conclusion

...RN Mary Robin is torn between romance and her duty as a nurse, believing that the two are incompatible and she would have to decide between one of the other!
This story by writer Robert Kanigher and artist John Romita Sr from DC's Young Love #50 (1965) references her first day at County General...which we saw in DC's Young Love #39 (1963) by the same creative team!
So why is it that the "flashback" doesn't match the tale shown in the earlier issue?
Different doctor (whom we never saw before) and different situation!
The only thing I can think of is that the book's first editor, Larry Nadle, who began the series, was replaced by Jack Miller as of #44 and Miller either didn't keep Nadle's files and story notes, or didn't believe the audience would remember (or care) about the previous chapters.

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Friday, May 19, 2023

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "Love I Never Held!" Part 1

I've always found it odd that, in pop culture until the 1970s...
...men could both have a career and be married, but married women were expected to become full-time homemakers, giving up their careers!
Actually, it'll continue...
Tomorrow!

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Friday, May 5, 2023

M.D. "Emergency"

How do medical personnel do their job when they can't see what they're doing?
(Cover by Johnny Craig)
That's the basis of this cover-featured tale from EC's M.D. #5 (1956)!
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Illustrated by Graham Ingels and likely written by editor Al Feldstein,
It's scary to consider how much of our medical care is dependent upon a consistent power source.
But, that's why almost every medical facility is equipped with an emergency generator!
Note I said almost every medical facility, because there are those, especially in rural areas who still don't have one!
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PICTURE STORIES FROM SCIENCE "Fighting Germs with Germs: the Story of Vaccination and Innoculation"

This comic tale from the 1940s explains the benefits of vaccination  in such a simple, graphic way... ...that even a regressive Reich-wing a...