Showing posts with label Doctor Dan Dazzler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctor Dan Dazzler. Show all posts

Friday, August 29, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "9 Lives Has Dr Dazzler"

One of the Weird Things About This Series...

...is that it reads like a series of one-shot stories about different doctors!



In the tale from the previous issue of Ben Casey, Dr Dazzler is shown to have acrophobia!
Yet here he is, merrily prancing around the building's superstructure without a care in the world!
Considering the same writer, Carl Memling, wrote all the Dr Dan Dazzler stories, the only way I can attribute this inconsistency is that they were initially-scripted as different doctors at the same hospital, but the (unknown) editor decided to make the feature about one doctor and just had whatever name was in the script relettered!
I'd also point out that, in every story, "Dr Dazzler" is drawn with different hair and facial features ranging from a callow 20-something with a full head of hair, to a middle-aged guy with a receding hairline!
It's a 'medical' mystery that'll never be solved...

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Friday, July 25, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Open and Shut Case!"

Let's return to the adventures of the "interne" who changes appearance with every story!

...and take note of the decidedly-different art style on this story by a "guest" artist!



What you've just read is the first of two never-reprinted Doctor Dan Dazzler stories penciled and inked by Gene Colan from Dell's Ben Casey Comics #6 (1963)!
He also did a couple of one-page fillers about real-life doctors!
You'll see those (and the other Dan Dazzler story) soon!
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Friday, May 23, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Deadly Playmates"

It's fascinating to see what, in the 1960s...

..."internes" had to do, including, serving as "physician-on-duty" when a circus comes to town!



Actually, I believe the esteemed interne is royally-pissed in this never-reprinted story, illustrated by John Tartaglione from Dell's Ben Casey #5 (1963)

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Friday, April 4, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "One Heartbeat from Death"

We Return to Our Monthly Installment of Dr Dan Dazzler...

...the interne (as they spelled it back then) who never looks the same two issues in a row!
Written by Carl Memling and illustrated by Norman Nodel, this third tale of Dr Dan Dazzler from Dell's Ben Casey #4 (1962) shows us a different visual for the character than his previous appearance HERE!
Then, he's under 25, with a full head of blond hair!
But in his premiere tale HEREhe looks as he does now...early-30s with receding brown hair!
I wonder if this was meant to be a feature about a group of doctors working at a given hospital like "Internes of Central Hospital" or somesuch.
But they decided, after the art was rendered, to just change the name and the captions and make several doctors just one doctor, with, easily, the silliest name they could think of!
But they didn't modify the art to give the character a consistent look!
It's just a theory, and we'll never know the answer.

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Friday, December 27, 2024

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Rumble..!"

We Close Out December and 2024 with Our Monthly Feature...

...about a young "interne" who may look too youthful for his own good!
Written by Carl Memling and illustrated by Norman Nodel, this second tale of Dr Dan Dazzler from Dell's Ben Casey #3 (1962) shows us a different visual for the character than his first appearance HERE!
In this strip, he's under 25, with a full head of blond hair, but in the previous strip, he looked like early-30s with receding brown hair!
I wonder if this was meant to be a feature about a group of doctors working at a given hospital like "Internes of Central Hospital" or somesuch.
But they decided, after the art was rendered, to just change the name and the captions and make several doctors just one doctor, with, easily, the silliest name they could think of!
But they didn't modify the art to give the character a consistent look!
It's just a theory, and we'll never know the answer.

We're Taking Next Friday Off, But We'll be Back on January10th, 2025!

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Friday, November 22, 2024

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Dial EMERGENCY..."

Tucked behind the comic book adventures of TV's Ben Casey...

...was a strip about a young interne (as they spelled it back then)!
This premiere appearance from Dell's Ben Casey Comics #2 (1963) was scripted by Carl Memling and illustrated by Norman Nodel who did several chapters before moving on to other assignments.
BTW, Doctor Dan Dazzler is our new ongoing feature, appearing monthly.

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Marvel Comics, The American Cancer Society and the Story So Nice, They Told it Twice!

Actually, it wasn't a "nice" tale, but we wanted an alliterative title... In 1982, Marvel and the American Cancer Society  c...