Friday, June 30, 2023

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "All Men are Children!"

As of this issue (DC's Young Love #51 [1965]), Mary Robin loses the cover and two-part feature status!

Wonder if the publisher was unhappy about the story's title...
Despite the title, it appears women (especially Mary Robin) are as much "children" as men!
Be back next month as a major change hits the strip!

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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)!

Friday, June 16, 2023

Pride in Post-Op GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE "My Heart Still Beats for You"

It's insanely-difficult to find a medical-themed LGBTQ+ comic story...
...but when you find one, it's well worth the hunt!
Produced by creatives Allison Paige and Amber Noelle (I don't know who did what aspect) for BedSide Press' anthology Gothic Tales of Haunted Love (2017), this tale demonstrates "true love transcends even death"

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Friday, June 2, 2023

UNCANNY TALES "Cure"

Sometimes solving the puzzle of a pandemic is worse than the disease itself...
...as this never-reprinted tale set in the then-future year of 1976 from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #45 (1956) demonstrates!
It should be pointed out that the "common cold" virus, though known to mankind since 1600 BC, has never been known to affect any other, non-human, species!
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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...