KEEN DETECTIVE FUNNIES "Doctor's Revenge"

Here's a short comic story with enough of a plotline to fill a b-movie!

(Today, it would probably be a four-issue mini-series!)

This never-reprinted story from Centaur's Keen Detective Funnies V2N12 (1939) was written and illustrated by Clair S Moe, one of the few women working in the pre-World War II comics industry.
(During the war, a number of women entered the business due to so many male writers and artist serving in the armed forces!)
You'll note some of the pages are black and white, while others are only two-color.
In order to save money on books that might not have been selling well, sections of some comics were four-color (usually the ones with the popular, ongoing series), while others with one-shot tales like this were two-color/black and white.
It really didn't save much money, and the practice was discontinued industrywide around 1940.

CAUGHT "Man Who Followed"

Would a doctor betray the Hippocratic Oath and allow someone to die...

...or fulfill the oath...even at the cost of his career?

Rather...convenient...that the would-be blackmailer just dies, eh?

Sadly, we don't know who scripted this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Caught #4 (1957), but the art (both pencils and inks) is by Don Heck, who, a few years later, would be one of the primary artists at Marvel Comics in the Silver Age, co-creating Iron Man, The Black Widow, Hawkeye, and The Wasp!

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Halloween Hospital Horrors DR MERCY "Monster of Medicine"

No, not the hot (in many ways) dermatologist currently appearing on The Learning Channel and Discovery+...

...but a Golden Age of Comics MD fighting evil in any form!

(BTW, he's not disabled.

He's just using the wheelchair to sneak up on the baddies!)

Despite the opening paragraph's proclamation of "many errands of mercy" and "many eternal enemies", Dr Mercy (yes, "Mercy" is the character's last name) only appeared three times before being regulated to the Home for Retired Comics Characters without even a single reprint since!

This tale from Rural House's one-shot Merry Comics (1945) shows off his attributes to best effect.

No costume, no gimmicks, no unique weaponry.

Just medical knowledge and an extreme sense of outrage against evil.

Y'know, we could use a few more doctors like him...for example, Dr Pat! whose complete series is available HERE!

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Sensation Comics DR PAT "Fatal Decoy!"

Once more, Dr Pat steps heroically "into the breach"...

...with her usual moxie and grit and other things nobody born after 1960 would recognize!

Sadly, this never-reprinted tale by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Bob Oksner from DC's Sensation Comics #106 (1951) marks the end of Dr Pat's adventures!

The book was revised into a mystery/fantasy title without any female lead charaters, including Wonder Woman who lost her equivalent to Superman's Action Comics and Batman's Detective Comics!
Except for reprints of the first two Dr Pat tales in the back of Lois Lane, Superman's Girl Friend during the early 1970s, Pat Windsor MD hasn't been seen by anybody in over a half-century!
We hope you've enjoyed her adventures as the first female doctor with an ongoing series in comic books.

As our new ongoing monthly series, we introduced the never-reprinted Tramp Doctor HERE.

Check him out when he returns in August!

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