HOPE SHIP Part 1

With Don da Con's Proclamation About Sending a Hospital Ship to Greenland...

...(Lord only knows why), it reminded me that there actually was a comic about such a vessel (albeit fictional) from the 1960s!

To Be Continued Next Friday

Produced in 1963, Dell's Hope Ship (1963) was a weird combination of historical fact and hysterical fiction!

While the history of previous medical practices on civilian and military vessels was fairly accurate, the situations the fictional U.S.S. Aid encountered were anything but accurate!

Apparently-inspired by the exploits of the S.S. Hope, the worlds first civilian hospital ship, which had just competed three assignments to international acclaim, this tale, illustrated by Edd Ashe, wasn't sponsored by any medical organization, nor sanctioned by any government department.
It's one of those unusual projects that pops up from time to time, then disappears into obscurity!