LINDA LARK: REGISTERED NURSE "The Play's the Thing!"

A Hospitalized Actress' Flirtations are Rejected by Dr Blasko!

And when the actress' significant other (who's also her co-star in a currently-running play) shows up, and flirts with Nurse Linda Lark, the actress dumps him and plots revenge against Lark...who's currently dating Dr Blasko!

The actress, Joyce Wilson, sends two tickets for tonight's performance of her play to Lark (whose date that night with Blasko is mysteriously cancelled)!

These events are all linked, as we shall soon see...

So Linda's not going home to Mommy!

She's going somewhere with rich physician Dr Mayne, who sees an opporutinity to lure her away from Dr Blasko!

Can this get any more soap opera-ish?

Judge for yourself, when we rejoin our carousing cast...Next Friday!

LINDA LARK: REGISTERED NURSE "Doctor Drama"

We're returning to the story of Nurse Linda Lark...

...noting that, in the space of a single issue, she's gone from student nurse to registered nurse!
Talk about your "best and brightest"!

The Drama Continues Next Friday!

This never-reprinted issue of Dell's Linda Lark: Registered Nurse #2 (1962), scripted and laid-out by John Stanley and penciled/inked by John Tartaglione is actually a soap opera-esque storyline spread over four chapters!
So, instead of spreading it out over several months, we're going to run it in weekly installments!
What we'll do with the remaining issues, which follow this format is yet to be decided...

Tales Twice-Told YOUNG DOCTORS "Star Patient"

What Do You Do When the Two Hottest Doctors on TV are Licensed to Another Comics Publisher?

Why, you put out a book about two doctors who look and sound just like them, of course!

Dr Kildare...excuse me, Dr Landon, treats his latest beautiful female patient...

Written by Joe Gil, inked by Vince Colletta, and penciled by someone whose name is, sadly, lost to the mists of time, this (sort of) never-repinted tale from Charlton's Young Doctors #3 (1963) was designed to lure unwary Ben Casey and/or Dr Kildare fans into buying what appears to be a team-up of the two incredibly-popular TV medicos!

It lasted six issues, after which Drs Landon & Burke disappeared from comics forever!

Ha!

Fooled You!

There's a reason this entry is classified "Twice Told-Tales", and you'll find out why...tomorrow!

LINDA LARK: STUDENT NURSE "Charley"

Linda Lark's Fellow Nurse and BFF, Charley, Gets the Spotlight...

...in her one (and only) solo strip appearance from Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961)!

Writer John Stanley loved including eccentric artistic characters in his stories, and apparently couldn't go this entire issue without slipping one in!

HOPE SHIP Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Arriving in the earthquake-ravaged Asian city of Jahira, the medical staff of the hospital ship S.S. Aid jump into action, providing much-needed medical care to the injured and sick.

But when a young boy arrives and tells of his injured brother who can't be brought to the ship and others in similar straits, Dr McDanger resolves to go inland and help them.
But they're in a crime-ridden slum called "Black Alley" where even the local police and military refuse to go...

Thus concludes the tale of Dr Roger McDanger, a man of violence who learned to embrace the way of peace, though his every instinct was against it, to heal and protect the innocent!

BTW, remember we mentioned that a statement by the current American President about sending a hospital ship to Greenland inspired us to run this multi-part post.
As of this date, three weeks later, no such ship has left an American port for Greenland!
Just thought you'd like to know...

HOPE SHIP Part 2

Before We Continue, a Little Bit of History...

Now, on with the story...

After re-provisioning and taking on replacement crew and medical personnel, the medical ship S.S. Aid responds to requests for medical assistance after an earthquake in the Asian city of Jahira...

To Be Concluded, Next Friday!

The book's unknown writer obviously-wanted to make the oddly-named Dr McDanger an exciting hands-on, yet conflicted, protagonist!

A healer with a mysterious, apparently violence-ridden past, willing to take outlandish risks to help suffering innocents!
Not exactly what a reader picking up this comic might have expected...