Best of True Love in the Emergency Room YOUNG ROMANCE "Full Hands - Empty Heart!" Part 1

Since it's both Black History Month and almost Valentines Day...

..we thought we'd re-present a two-parter featuring a Black medical professional in a romantic relationship!

Note: On some pages Phyllis' skin is gray and on some it's brown.

That's because on the pages showing her as gray, the color separators used the wrong combination of yellow, red (magenta) and blue (cyan) screens.

To find out what happens next...

Be Here Next Week

for the heart-rending conclusion as well as some background about the writer of the tale!

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Heart Throbs
Best of DC Romance Comics
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EERIE ADVENTURES "From Beyond the Grave"

This Week's Entry is Quite Short...

...but we selected it because it relates to our current extremely (in fact, dangerously) snowy weather!

The tale is courtesy of artist Bob McCarty and an unknown writer (possibly the comic publisher's editor, Jerry (Superman) Siegel!
Note: this never-reprinted short from Ziff-Davis' Eerie Adventures #1 (1951) is in black and white because it was used on the inside back cover of the comic, which most publishers in those days ran as b/w or two-color instead of four-color to keep costs down!

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LINDA LARK: STUDENT NURSE "Let's Dance!"

Student Nurse Linda Lark is Settling In...

...to her job, but not into the hospital's social life...yet!

Writer/layout artist John Stanley and illustrator John Tartaglione take a slew of cliches and make them seem palatable in this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961)!

POPULAR ROMANCE "Heartbreak Moon"

Here's a Tantalizing Tale Loaded with...

...doctors and nurses, class warfare, childhood friends turned co-workers, medical moral dilemmas, ethnic discrimination, family dinners, and an extremely-odd title!









This tale from Standard's Popular Romance #27 (1954), illustrated by penciler Alex Toth and inker Mike Peppe, could be a storyboard for a medical TV show episode or a B-movie.
Sadly, the writer, who did a damn good job, is unknown!

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Setting the Standard

Comics by Alex Toth: 1952-1954
Which reprints this story...but in b/w, not color!
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN "Pull of the Prodigy" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Spider-Man witnesses a load of young teens boarding a helicopter...late at night.

Webbing himself to the undercarriage, he's carried to an upstate mansion where the teens meet The Prodigy...who is actually an extraterrestrial alien with the ability to manipulate minds!

He's encouraging human teenagers to get pregnant and, since they are unprepared to raise and support the babies, allow him to take the children, ostensibly to have them adopted by foster families, but actually to kidnap them to his home planet, where they'll be raised as a slave labor force!

Using his vocal ability to manipulate the kids, he's providing them with mis-information about sex, and encourging them to...well...breed!

The comic ends with some useful suggestions as to where to get additional practical information...

Written by Ann Robinson of Planned Parenthood, and illustrated by the long-time team of penciler Ross Andru & inker Mike Esposito, this 1976 digest-sized giveaway was one of the first Public Service Announcement-type comics featuring Marvel or DC characters!

We've run a number of them on this blog!

Just enter the phrase "PSA" in the Google search box at the top of the post to find them!

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Giveaways that Fought Commies, Sold Cars and Cigars, Showed How to Buy a TV and Avoid VD, and are now Saving Lives!

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