CoronaVirus Comics THE VITALS: TRUE NURSE STORIES "Story Two: Can't Stop"

Take a deep breath...

...and plunge into a graphic retelling of a real-life situation in the daily battle against Covid-19!

Marvel Comics collaborated with Allegheny Health Network (AHN) to celebrate real-life healthcare heroes through a comic book about real-life nurses and their heroism.

Each character and story stems from the experiences of real people who provide healthcare throughout AHN’s 13 hospital facilities in Western Pennsylvania, serving as amalgams of the dozens of nurses who shared their stories.

The limited-print run comic books are distributed to patients for free throughout AHN hospitals, with an e-reader version available on Marvel.com.

This tale of the never-ending struggle is written by Sean Ryan, and illustrated by Jose Carlos.

You'll see the final story from this collection next month.

NELLIE THE NURSE "Work Hard, Play Hard!"

After last week's rather grim (though "uplifting") tale torn from current real life...
...we thought you might enjoy a humorous "breather" from the 1950s, when men were doctors, women were nurses, and sexism ran rampant!

Pop Culture In-Joke: Both Dr Kildare and Dr Christian were popular 1930s-40s radio shows that both spun-off into b-movie series, though they never crossed-over as shown on the movie screen in the last panel!

Writer Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett (doing a great Dan DeCarlo imitation) makes this never-reprinted tale from Atlas' Nellie the Nurse V2N1 (1957) a quick, fun read by doing what reads like a classic vaudeville routine!

This was a reboot of the first Nellie the Nurse series which ran from 1945 to 1952 but aimed at a younger, less sophisticated audience. (You can see an example of that strip HERE.)

The revival didn't sell, and Nellie became a backup strip in Millie the Model to use up the inventory of stories created for the never-published #2 and 3!

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Night Nurse

CoronaVirus Comics THE VITALS: TRUE NURSE STORIES "Story One: Cut Through the Noise"

What Makes a Person a Hero or Heroine?

It's being willing to do what must be done...even when you're already at your limit, physically or mentally!

Real heroes don’t wear capes; they wear scrubs.

Marvel Comics collaborated with Allegheny Health Network (AHN) to celebrate real-life healthcare heroes through a comic book about real-life nurses and their heroism.

Each character and story stems from the experiences of real people who provide healthcare throughout AHN’s 13 hospital facilities in Western Pennsylvania, serving as amalgams of the dozens of nurses who shared their stories.

The limited-print run comic books are distributed to patients for free throughout AHN hospitals, with an e-reader version available on Marvel.com.

This lead-off tale is written by Sean Ryan, penciled by Marcio Fiorito, inked by Roberto Poggi.

You'll be seeing the others over the next few weeks.

Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "No Cure for Love" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...Mary Robin, on her first assignment as a registered nurse, becomes enamored with young, handsome surgeon Will Ames.

But will he return her affection?

Mary Robin R.N. will return next month!

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Young Love PRIVATE DIARY OF MARY ROBIN, R.N. "No Cure for Love" Part 1

Let's jump into our new ongoing monthly feature...

...a series by Dr Pat co-creator writer Robert Kanigher and artist John Romita!

Actually, It'll be Concluded...

Tomorrow!

Yes, this introductory story from DC's Young Love #39 (1963) is quite different in tone from the Dr Pat series.
This is more in the vein of the various nurse strips we've presented, such as Cynthia Doyle: Nurse in Love, which were soap operas set in hospitals.
This particular series, which ran from #39 to #52 in DC's Young Love was one of the best-illustrated, by John Romita Sr, who later moved on to Marvel, where he initially took over Daredevil and then Spider-Man, and later became the art director for the entire Marvel line, a position he held for over 30 years!
He also co-created several major characters including Wolverine and The Punisher!

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