Medical Comics and Stories: history

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Friday, January 31, 2025

CoronaVirus Comics REAL HEROES "Plague Vanquished"

Not all comic book heroes wear capes...

..as this tale of Edward Jenner, the doctor who saved us from smallpox, proves!

Who says comics ain't educational?

Not me, kiddo!

This never-reprinted story from Parent Magazines' Real Heroes #15 (1946) was one of several graphic dramatizations of Dr Jenner's achievement which has saved countless lives since its' introduction!

Depending on how long the Covid-19 lockdown continues, we may have time to run all of them!

Sadly, both writer and illustrator(s) are unknown!

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Rabbit and Cat's CoronaVirus Jokes for Such a Time as This

Volume One

Friday, January 6, 2023

CororonaVirus Comics WONDER WOMEN OF HISTORY "Bethenia Owens"

As Covid returns to threaten us all in the New Year...

...let's look at a pioneer woman who was also a medical pioneer!

Written by Julius Schwartz and illustrated by Paul Reinman, this tale from DC's Wonder Woman #37 (1949) was part of an ongoing non-fiction feature, "Wonder Woman of History" which ran in both Wonder Woman and Sensation Comics (which featured Wonder Woman, just as Action Comics features Superman and Detective Comics features The Batman)!
Interestingly, when these shorts were reprinted, it was only in the back of romance comics or in Superman's GirlFriend Lois Lane!
For example, this particular feature was re-presented in DC's Secret Hearts #35 (1956)!

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M.D.

Volume 1

The First Newsstand Comic Dedicated to the Medical Profession!

Friday, February 4, 2022

Classics Illustrated NEGRO AMERICANS "Daniel Hale Williams"

A Black doctor was the first to do a then-radical surgical procedure that changed medical history!

...and this is his story!

Illustrated by Norman Nodel, this story is from the never-reprinted Classics Illustrated #169 (1969), subtitled Negro Americans: the Early Years!

Dr Williams is on the cover (also by Norman Nodel) along with Harriet Tubman, Booker T Washington and other historical Black figures...

...though, sadly, he's still the least famous of all of them...and the smallest one on the cover!

Curiously, this was the final issue of the legendary title's original run!

We can only speculate as to why...

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Blacks in Medicine
Clinical, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Correlations

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Coronavirus Comics SCIENCE COMICS "Theobald Smith and Texas Fever"

We had a month of weird and way-out fantasy...

...but now it's time to (sadly) return to reality, where a pandemic continues to threaten our very existence!

Note: Theobald Smith was, in fact, an MD (degree from Albany Medical College), though he didn't practice!

Whether the anonymous writer of this never-reprinted tale from Ace's Science Comics #5 (1946) didn't know that or ignored it for expediency is unknown.

In addition, artist Warren Kremer left out Smith's rather bushy beard!
Texas Fever has been all but eliminated, thanks to Smith's pioneering work!

Next Week:

The Return of
Dr Pat!
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M.D.

Volume 1

The First Newsstand Comic Dedicated to the Medical Profession!

Friday, September 11, 2020

CoronaVirus Comics SCIENCE COMICS "Walter Reed: the Man Who Conquered Yellow Fever"

We told this tale once before...

...but here's another version of true events, with a somewhat different emphasis...

Rudy Palais, one of the more gruesomely-graphic artists of the Golden Age illustrated this never-reprinted tale from Ace's Science Comics #2 (1946).

In fact, some of Palais' work is excerpted in Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent!

And, yes, the subject of the story is the Dr Walter Reed the hospital in Washington DC is named after...and this is why it's named after him!

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