Post-Halloween Hospital Horror Humor MAD "New Movie Monsters from the Medical World!"

We're Enjoying the Halloween Season So Much...

...We Just Can't End Our Celebration Without One More Entry,This Time, to Tickle Your Funny Bone!

Written by E Nelson Bridwell and illustrated by Jack Rickard, this short from EC's MAD #144 (1971) hasn't been seen since a reprint in 1980, so, unless you own one of those 44-year old (or older) issues, this is the first time you've seen it!

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1978 Paperback Which Reprints this 1971 Feature!

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Halloween Hospital Horrors CRAZY "Wolf Man"

It's Almost Halloween!
Is it gonna be trick or treat for...

...in this never-reprinted story from one of Atlas' numerous MAD-clones, Crazy #5 (1954)

Artist Dick Ayers rendered this tale in a style quite dissimilar from his usual Western or horror material.

The writer, though, is unknown, but may be Stan Lee, who was the editor of the line, and wrote a lot of the comic's stories.
BTW, we're returning to bi-weekly status for the next month.
If the viewer count remains high, we'll go back to weekly from December onward.

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WILD "Florence Nightgown"

Almost everyone in medical practice (especially nursing) knows of, and is inspired by...

...the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, OM/RRC/DStJ.

However, our tale today sure as heck ain't about her...

Illustrated by Al Hartley, this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Wild #3 (1954) was typical of the four MAD comic clones (Riot/Snafu/Crazy/Wild) the company had out at the same time!

Each one had a parody of a historical figure, a spoof of a current movie/tv/radio show, a humorous look at a genre like horror/Western/romance/crime, and a couple of 1-2 page features about almost anything!

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EH! "Young Dr Baloney!"

This parody is based on Young Dr Malone, a long-running radio (and TV) soap opera...

...about a handsome (and married) doctor who nurses and patients alike constantly lusted after!

Young Doctor Malone had a long run on radio (1939-60) which overlapped the TV version (1958-63).

Because both series aired daily Monday to Friday, the two incarnations had different casts and ongoing plotlines!

(Some series which ran weekly, like Dragnet, used the same cast members in both versions)

The show's creators/producers Betty and Ted Corday, later conceived and produced TV's Days of Our Lives, one of the few soap operas still on the air!
This spoof from Charlton's Eh! (1953), one of the many MAD comic clones of the era, was illustrated by Dick Ayers and likely written by the book's editor, Al Fago!

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FROM HERE TO INSANITY "Mad Doc"

This never-reprinted story from Charlton's From Here to Insanity #9 (1955)...

...was apparently meant to satirize the idea of doing a medical TV series in the pseudo-realistic style of the classic police procedural show Dragnet!

Illustrated (and possibly written) by Fred Ottenheimer, a children's book creator who did humor comics stories for Timely (later Marvel) and Magazine Enterprises as well as Charlton.
This was Charlton's second attempt to jump on the MAD comic bandwagon (before MAD became a b/w magazine).
The first was titled "EH!" and had such a brief life that material prepared for it appeared in ...Insanity without even editing out or modifying in-panel references to EH!!

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