Writer/artist John Stanley is noted for a number of fascinating, unique, comic book series...
...including, most famously, the comic book version of the newspaper strip Little Lulu!
But he also dabbled in non-humor material creating the ongoing horror anthology Ghost Stories and the one-shot, oversized, Tales from the Tomb, along with this rather unique nursing series which played fast and loose with the genre's cliches and tropes...
With illustrator and co/creator John Tartaglione, John Stanley begins subverting the nursing strip genre from this never-reprinted introductory tale in Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961) onward.
She's hyper-competent, and actually has a (relatively) normal life outside the hospital!
During her eight-issue run, she was a student nurse, then a registered nurse (in just one issue)!
She also solved crimes, traveled into danger in foreign lands, appeared in a medical TV series...and became the first American woman in space!
Even when they did a story involving her former high school sweetheart who had become a doctor, the story didn't go quite like you'd expect!
And, she'll be replacing Doctor Dan Dazzler, whose series ends in November, as our ongoing feature!
But next week, it's the return of our annual...
Halloween Hospital Horrors Blogathon!
There's never a dull moment around here!
