Showing posts with label George Evans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Evans. Show all posts

Friday, April 25, 2025

M.D. "Worried Sick"

Perhaps the Last Thing You'd See a Comic Book Story About...

...is something that affects hundreds of thousands of people, but is rarely-discussed in public!






Writer Carl Wessler and artist George Evans tell this tale from EC's M.D. #4 (1955) in a calm, non-hyperbolic manner.
It's an example of the restraint EC was doing (and perhaps slightly overdoing) after the Comics Code took effect!

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Friday, August 30, 2024

M.D. "Shock Treatment"

Did you know electroshock therapy was once an automatically-approved method?

But some medical professionals realized the technique had its' limits...and some "off-book" uses!
Illustrated by George Evans and likely scripted by the book's editor Al Feldstein, this shocking (sorry, couldn't resist) story from EC's M.D. #3 (1955) showed the publisher could still sneak something past the extremely-restrictive Comics Code Authority!

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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...