9-11 WORLD'S FINEST COMIC BOOK WRITERS & ARTISTS TELL STORIES TO REMEMBER "The Job"

25 Years Ago Today, Our World Changed...

...and Americans, particularly first responders/medical personnel, rose to the challenge and dealt with it!

Writer Josh Kratch, penciler Scott McDaniel, and inker James Pascoe tell a tale of two determined EMTs/paramedics on-site at the Twin Towers, helping mo matter what the cost, in a story published in the DC Comics charity benefit comic World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember (2002).
All the creatives, as well as the printers, donated their time and materials (including printing ink, paper stock and presstime) to the project.
Interestingly, copies of this comic are available on-line and in comics shops from $2.50 to $75 each, but none of the price you'd pay now will go to charity...

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Responding to a warehouse fire, Paramedics Gage and DeSoto discover the fire was set to cover the theft of cases of highly-radioactive radium chloride!

Unfortunately, the thieves damaged the casing of at least one of the containers, which is now leaking!
With one of the thieves captured and hospitalized, the police and paramedics have to find the thief still at large, secure the leaking containers, and treat the thief before radiation poisoning kills him and injures (or kills) any innocents he encounters!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!

(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Part 1

Before He Reached Superstardom at Marvel and DC on X-Men and Superman...

...writer/illustrator John Byrne cut his artistic teeth in the mid-1970s working on projects like Charlton's Emergency! comic, based on the TV series!

To be Concluded...Next Friday!

Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!

(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

9/11 Tributes to Medical Personnel

Many consider EMTs (Emergency Medical Techs) to merely be glorified ambulance drivers!

Those idiots couldn't be further from the truth!

Full-page art from Marvel's Heroes #1 (2001) Art by Phil Winslade.

The story below is from DC's 9-11 The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember #2 (2002).

Both comics were "benefit books" whose creatives, production staff, printers and distributors took no payment for their services!

Even the cost of the paper and ink was absorbed by the publishers!

All money earned went to 9/11 relief funds!

Written by John Krach, penciled by Scott McDaniel and inked by James Pascoe.