Showing posts with label doctor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doctor. Show all posts

Friday, August 29, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "9 Lives Has Dr Dazzler"

One of the Weird Things About This Series...

...is that it reads like a series of one-shot stories about different doctors!



In the tale from the previous issue of Ben Casey, Dr Dazzler is shown to have acrophobia!
Yet here he is, merrily prancing around the building's superstructure without a care in the world!
Considering the same writer, Carl Memling, wrote all the Dr Dan Dazzler stories, the only way I can attribute this inconsistency is that they were initially-scripted as different doctors at the same hospital, but the (unknown) editor decided to make the feature about one doctor and just had whatever name was in the script relettered!
I'd also point out that, in every story, "Dr Dazzler" is drawn with different hair and facial features ranging from a callow 20-something with a full head of hair, to a middle-aged guy with a receding hairline!
It's a 'medical' mystery that'll never be solved...

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Friday, July 25, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Open and Shut Case!"

Let's return to the adventures of the "interne" who changes appearance with every story!

...and take note of the decidedly-different art style on this story by a "guest" artist!



What you've just read is the first of two never-reprinted Doctor Dan Dazzler stories penciled and inked by Gene Colan from Dell's Ben Casey Comics #6 (1963)!
He also did a couple of one-page fillers about real-life doctors!
You'll see those (and the other Dan Dazzler story) soon!
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Friday, June 6, 2025

Military Medicine SHIP AHOY "Navy Air Medic"

Before the Air Force Became a Separate Branch of the Military...

...all three of the services (Army, Navy, Marines) had their own, distinct air services...and unique ways of doing things tailored to their specific needs!





Now, this isn't to say they didn't share results of research between the branches, but there were aspects applicable only to each service.
This never-reprinted feature from Spotlight Publication's one-shot Ship Ahoy (1944) was likely checked by the government so that no critical/secret info was inadvertently published!

Friday, May 30, 2025

ROMANCES OF NURSE HELEN GRANT "Unmasked Heart!"

Unlike Our Previous Nurse Soap Opera...

...the long-running Private Diary of Mary Robin R.N." this series ran only one issue!
We'll go into the likely reasons at the end of this story!







A series about a totally-loyal, lovestruck nurse obsessed with a Handsome Young Doctor whom every female who walks through the Emergency Room doors lusts after!
Unlike Nurse Mary Robin who wavered in her loyalty to her Dr Love Object, eventually ending up with a different doctor, Helen Grant seems determined to be by Dr Brian Clark's side...obviously as close as possible, until Death Do Them Part!
Was that the reason there wasn't an issue #2?
We'd have to ask plotter/editor Stan Lee, inker Vince Colletta, and the likely "ghost" penciler, Matt Baker, what they had in mind after this premiere issue of Atlas' Romances of Nurse Helen Grant #1 (1957).
But since they've all passed away, we'll never know!

Friday, May 23, 2025

DOCTOR DAN DAZZLER "Deadly Playmates"

It's fascinating to see what, in the 1960s...

..."internes" had to do, including, serving as "physician-on-duty" when a circus comes to town!



Actually, I believe the esteemed interne is royally-pissed in this never-reprinted story, illustrated by John Tartaglione from Dell's Ben Casey #5 (1963)

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Friday, May 9, 2025

OMNI "Kinesthetic" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

(and yes, this kool Dave Johnson cover is symbolic!)

A disguised Dr Cobbina arrives at a migrant detention center where now-superpowered children, separated from their parents, have thrown out their captors!
She assesses the situation, and tries to keep the kids calm...but they are children, and tend to over-react...










Written by Devin Grayson and illustrated by Alitha Martinez, this first Don da Con administration-era issue cleverly took a real-world issue and inserted it into the series' sci-fi-oriented universe without seeming out-of place!

Doctor Cobbina aka Omni Will Return!

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Friday, May 2, 2025

OMNI "Kinesthetic" Part 1

When Last We Left the MD with a Mind That Operates Faster Than Light...

I love it when the comic does my work for me!
Now let's get to it...









MAGA's greatest nightmare: undocumented immigrants with super-powers...willing to use them to protect themselves!
Written by Devin Grayson, illustrated by Chris Eliopoulos (intro.synopsis) & Alitha Martinez, this tale from Humanoids' Omni #3 (2019), set during Don da Con's previous administration, takes a timely topic and adds twists and turns aplenty to a real-world situation!
To Be Concluded...One Way or Another...
Next Week!

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HARVEY "Raquel in 'Socking It to Uncle' "

We Ran Medical-Themed Archie Comics Stories HERE & HERE ... ...and though this tale looks like an Archie comic, it ain't ! This ...