MY GREATEST ADVENTURE "Cure Our Robot Ruler--or Die"

Yes, This is a Weekly Blog about Doctors, Nurses, and Other Medical Personnel...

Art by Lee Elias

...but nobody said the patients had to be human!

Ever see the movie Crisis (1950)?

Cary Grant plays a doctor vacationing in a South American country, where a revolution is brewing.

He's grabbed by the dictator's (Jose Ferrer) police to operate on him since they don't trust any of the surgeons native to the country to keep the secret of the ruler's infirmity!
The sadly-unknown writer of this never-repinted story from DC's My Greatest Adventure #77 (1963) obviously based his script on is, adding a cybernetic variation of that concept!

Interesting that the whole story comes down to "turn off the device and reboot", which was all-but unknown back in 1963!

What Do LOVE PROBLEMS & ADVICE ILLUSTRATED and PRIVATE LIVES AND LOVES OF GIRLS IN WHITE Have in Common?

In both cases, the cover art had nothing to so with the stories inside!

The art by Lee Elias for McCombs' Love Problems and Advice Illustrated #1 (1949) was a generic piece and none of the characters nor the situation shown appeared in any of the book's tales!

Note: Harvey Comics purchased McCombs' inventory when the company went out of business in 1950, and continued the Love Problems comic for 42 more issues until 1957.

And here's the weirdest thing...

...the cover art was re-used for Harvey's Private Lives and Loves of Girls in White, which appeared as part of Harvey's Comic Hits anthology (#58 in 1952), an issue about romances involving doctors and nurses!

BTW, it still didn't have anything to do with any of the stories in the book!