EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Responding to a warehouse fire, Paramedics Gage and DeSoto discover the fire was set to cover the theft of cases of highly-radioactive radium chloride!

Unfortunately, the thieves damaged the casing of at least one of the containers, which is now leaking!
With one of the thieves captured and hospitalized, the police and paramedics have to find the thief still at large, secure the leaking containers, and treat the thief before radiation poisoning kills him and injures (or kills) any innocents he encounters!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!

(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Part 1

Before He Reached Superstardom at Marvel and DC on X-Men and Superman...

...writer/illustrator John Byrne cut his artistic teeth in the mid-1970s working on projects like Charlton's Emergency! comic, based on the TV series!

To be Concluded...Next Friday!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!

(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

EMERGENCY! "Silent Death" Conclusion

When Last We Left Los Angeles Firemen Gage and DeSoto...

...they had been trained as paramedics, but were unable to legally-use that training in life-or-death situations they encounter daily, due to legal restrictions.

That is about to change...

The story, written by Joe Gill, was adapted from an early draft of the pilot episode, "Wedworth-Townsend Act", of the 1970s TV series Emergency!
The script dealt with the then-new law allowing specially-trained firemen to administer more than basic first aid to accident victims.

The series, from producer/actor Jack (Dragnet) Webb was a companion show with his other ongoing series Adam-12.

There were several crossovers between the two series during their runs, including this pilot episode!
However, since two different comic companies had the rights to Emergency! and Adam-12, the comics themselves didn't do a crossover!

Though the series began in 1972, this b/w magazine and the companion color comic (which presented different stories) weren't introduced until the show's fifth season, in 1977.
BTW, this story from Charlton's EMERGENCY! #1 (1976) adapts the remainder of the two-hour pilot.
"Crusty Bunkers" was the nickname assigned to a varying team of artists who worked on assignments for packager Continuity Associates (who provided art for various Charlton projects including this and Six Million Dollar Man.)
This particular team consisted of Joe Brozowski, Joe Barney, Mark Rice, Sal Amendola, Carl Potts, Terry Austin, Bruce Patterson, Bob Wiacek and John Fuller with Dick Giordano and Continuity Associates owner, the recently-deceased Neal Adams, overseeing and also providing layouts.

EMERGENCY! "Silent Death" Part 1

We Have Already Seen...

...well, that pretty much summarized the situation.

Now let's see what happens to Gage and DeSoto...

To Be Concluded...
NEXT WEEK

The story, written by Joe Gill, was adapted from an early draft of the pilot episode, "Wedworth-Townsend Act", of the 1970s TV series Emergency!
The script dealt with the then-new law allowing specially-trained firemen to administer more than basic first aid to accident victims.

The series, from producer/actor Jack (Dragnet) Webb was a companion show with his other ongoing series Adam-12.

There were several crossovers between the two series during their runs, including this pilot episode!
However, since two different comic companies had the rights to Emergency! and Adam-12, the comics themselves didn't do a crossover!

Though the series began in 1972, this b/w magazine and the companion color comic (which presented different stories) weren't introduced until the show's fifth season, in 1977.
BTW, this story from Charlton's EMERGENCY! #1 (1976) adapts the remainder of the two-hour pilot.
We presented the first part HERE.
"Crusty Bunkers" was the nickname assigned to a varying team of artists who worked on assignments for packager Continuity Associates (who provided art for various Charlton projects including this and Six Million Dollar Man.)
This particular team consisted of Joe Brozowski, Joe Barney, Mark Rice, Sal Amendola, Carl Potts, Terry Austin, Bruce Patterson, Bob Wiacek and John Fuller with Dick Giordano and Continuity Associates owner, the recently-deceased Neal Adams, overseeing and also providing layouts.

EMERGENCY! "Paramedics!"

These guys sure don't look like paramedics...

And, for the record, they aren't paramedics...yet!

Confused?

Just read on...

This text piece from the same never-reprinted issue of Charlton's Emergency! Magazine #1 (1975) explains the concept.

The story, written by Joe Gill, was adapted from an early draft of the pilot episode, "Wedworth-Townsend Act", of the 1970s TV series Emergency!
The script dealt with the then-new law allowing specially-trained firemen to administer more than basic first aid to accident victims.

The series, from producer/actor Jack (Dragnet) Webb was a companion show with his other ongoing series Adam-12.

There were several crossovers between the two series during their runs, including this pilot episode!
However, since two different comic companies had the rights to Emergency! (Charlton) and Adam-12 (Gold Key), the comics didn't do a crossover!

Though the series began in 1972, this b/w magazine and the companion color comic (which presented different stories) weren't introduced until the show's fifth season, in 1977.
BTW, this story adapts only the first 1/2 hour of the two-hour pilot.
The rest of the tale will be presented soon...