POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroic Doctors...

...despite the foolishness of using himself as a guinea pig, Dr Bobbs has taken the stricken Dr Higgans' work and completed it!

Huzzah!

To provide closure to this plotline, here's the opening page of the next chapter...

Interesting how the kid refers to her as "Miss Luana", not "Doctor Luana" or "Doctor Higgans"!

Does Doctor Luana Higgans ever re-appear?

Wouldn't you like to know?

Unlike most of his comic contemporaries, Dr Bobbs never had a b-movie, a radio series, or even a Big Little Book!

Besides the short run in Dell's Popular Comics anthology title from which this continuity wais re-presented, the good doctor had a one-shot in Dell's Four Color Comics series.

But, since the strip ended in 1949, he hasn't been seen by the public...until now!

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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 3

We Have Already Seen...

...please note the AMA is against using yourself to test potential cures~

Huzzah!

Huzzah!

A cure is found!

To be Concluded...
NEXT WEEK!

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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 2

When Last We Left Doctors Bobbs and Higgans...

...don't worry, you will be seeing Dr Higgans in action again!

What is it with fictional doctors willing to be their own guinea pigs?

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POPULAR COMICS "Doctor Bobbs Battles the Bubonic Plague" Part 1

One of the first "socially relevant" medical-themed comic strips... 

 ...was created by writer Elliot Caplan (brother of Lil' Abner creator Al Capp) and illustrator Jim McArdle in 1940.

The strip was reprinted in comic book format a year or two after appearing in newspapers, combining newly-colored dailies (originally in black and white) with Sunday color strips.

(This was a popular method of reprinting used by almost every strip from Dick Tracy to Blondie to Flash Gordon!)

This chapter from Dell's Popular Comics #94 (1943) introduces the strip's second storyline...

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Tales Twice-Told YOUNG DOCTORS "Star Patient"

What Do You Do When the Two Hottest Doctors on TV are Licensed to Another Comics Publisher?

Why, you put out a book about two doctors who look and sound just like them, of course!

Dr Kildare...excuse me, Dr Landon, treats his latest beautiful female patient...

Written by Joe Gil, inked by Vince Colletta, and penciled by someone whose name is, sadly, lost to the mists of time, this (sort of) never-repinted tale from Charlton's Young Doctors #3 (1963) was designed to lure unwary Ben Casey and/or Dr Kildare fans into buying what appears to be a team-up of the two incredibly-popular TV medicos!

It lasted six issues, after which Drs Landon & Burke disappeared from comics forever!

Ha!

Fooled You!

There's a reason this entry is classified "Twice Told-Tales", and you'll find out why...tomorrow!

HOPE SHIP Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Arriving in the earthquake-ravaged Asian city of Jahira, the medical staff of the hospital ship S.S. Aid jump into action, providing much-needed medical care to the injured and sick.

But when a young boy arrives and tells of his injured brother who can't be brought to the ship and others in similar straits, Dr McDanger resolves to go inland and help them.
But they're in a crime-ridden slum called "Black Alley" where even the local police and military refuse to go...

Thus concludes the tale of Dr Roger McDanger, a man of violence who learned to embrace the way of peace, though his every instinct was against it, to heal and protect the innocent!

BTW, remember we mentioned that a statement by the current American President about sending a hospital ship to Greenland inspired us to run this multi-part post.
As of this date, three weeks later, no such ship has left an American port for Greenland!
Just thought you'd like to know...