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

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UNCANNY TALES "Cure"

Sometimes solving the puzzle of a pandemic is worse than the disease itself...

...as this never-reprinted tale set in the then-future year of 1976 from Atlas' Uncanny Tales #45 (1956) demonstrates!

It should be pointed out that the "common cold" virus, though known to mankind since 1600 BC, has never been known to affect any other, non-human, species!

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Ten-Cent Plague

Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America

Military Medicine/CoronaVirus Comics PAT PARKER: WAR NURSE "Disease from the Depths"

Few non-superpowered World War II heroines had as active a career as...

 ...who went through three different incarnations during the conflict!

Introduced in Harvey's Speed Comics #13, British nurse Patricia Parker kicked the butts of spies, saboteurs, and medical black marketers in plainclothes for two issues before donning her costume and identity at the end of this never-reprinted story from Speed #15 (1942).

She was as proficient at Nazi-clobbering in costume as without one.

You'll note Pat didn't need a guy to assist her.

But, as of Speed Comics #23, she teamed up with several women from other countries (China, Russia, and America) to form the Girl Commandos, a distaff version of the multi-national Blackhawks...

...and dropped the "War Nurse" identity for the remainder of her run!
Note: If the art seems a tad un-detailed, even for a Golden Age comic, that's because the book wasn't normal sized (7.75" x 10.5"), but the smaller digest magazine-size (4" x 6.75")!
We just run them at the same size as the regular comics on this blog for your viewing ease!

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils
Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

M.D. "Right Cure"

Some people have always been suspicious of medical practitioners...

...as we sadly saw during the recent pandemic.

As this tale from EC's M.D. #3 (1955) by writer Al Feldstein and artist Graham Ingels shows, ignorance can be as lethal as disease!

At least the stupidity shown in this tale wasn't based on politicizing medicine, as happened during the CoronaVirus pandemic.

If that concept had been incorporated into this story, it would've been rejected as too far-fetched...even for comic books!

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M.D.

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TRAMP DOCTOR "vs Witch Doctor"

This atypical tale from Dell's Linda Lark: Registered Nurse #5 (1962) may be NSFW...

...due to the stereotypes of Pacific Islanders and "witch doctors".

You'll note in the final panel, there's a body on the ground, indicating Amok ingested some of the poisoned food he had given to Dr McCutchin, and he's either dead or dying.

It's odd that an island within swimming distance of a port still doesn't have even the basics of relatively-modern life, or even radio communication with the "outside world".
Isn't there some sort of regional government for the island group?
But, when the plot calls for it...I guess a lot of logical plot points are disregarded...

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TRAMP DOCTOR "Fugitives"

Crime comes to the island...

...as a couple in trouble arrive surreptitiously by boat!

Mikeli is a real blabbermouth, isn't he?

On the other hand, Dr McCutchin knows how to utilize his snoopy tendencies to advantage, as seen here!

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Halloween Hospital Horrors

returns for October!

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TRAMP DOCTOR "...the Flesh is Weak!"

Dr Ivar McCutchin faces his first crisis as a recovering alcoholic...

...and fails (a too-common occurrence in real-life)!

This never-reprinted tale from Dell's Linda Lark: Registered Nurse #3 (1962) featured both alcoholism and addictive narcotics, both of which were forbidden in newsstand comics after the Comics Code Authority was organized as a self-censorship board by the major comics publishers in 1954.

Dell, however, was not a member of that organization, since they had never published the type of horror comics that drew the public's ire!

As a result, they were able to handle topics like addiction, interracial romances, etc, that the "Big Guns" (DC/Atlas-Marvel/Harvey/etc.) didn't dare touch!

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TRAMP DOCTOR "Stranded on Gorbu"

This never-reprinted series was one of the most unusual medical comic strips...

...since it involved, among other things, alcoholism and interracial romantic relationships!

The only way Dell got away with some of the themes of this strip was that they weren't a participant the the Comics Code Authority, which forbade showing such things until their first major revision in 1971!

This tale from Dell's Linda Lark Registered Nurse #2 (1962) was illustrated by John Tartaglione, who also drew the book's main strip, Linda Lark!

Though best-known as an inker on a number of Marvel's Silver Age books, including The X-Men, Tartaglione was a decent, though slow, penciler, which he did for both Dell and George A Pflaum's Treasure Chest.

He also pencilled Marvel's occasional religious-themed comics, including Life of Pope John Paul II!

Dr McCutchin's saga continued until the cancellation of the book with #8.

You'll be seeing the rest of the tales once a month since this series replaces Dr Pat (which ends next month) as our ongoing feature!

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M.D.

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