NELLIE THE NURSE "Who Will Care for the Millionaire?"

After the Last Three Weeks of Conflict and Chaos...

...and what was happening in this blog on Hope Ship was no laughing matter either, we're going to offer some medical-oriented laughs!

Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Dan DeCarlo (before he settled in at Archie Comics and visually-redefined the characters for decades), this never-reprinted short from Atlas' Mille the Model Comics #88 (1959) was actually left over from a Nellie the Nurse comic that only ran one issue in 1957!
(The story was meant for #2)

MAD HOUSE COMICS "Donna...She's a Doozy"

Prime-time TV in the early 1960s was filled with medical series...
...and someone becoming obsessed with them wasn't a rare situation...though perhaps not obsessed to the extent of this never-reprinted story's protagonist!

Was this one-shot from Archie's Mad House Comics #35 (1964), illustrated by Dan DeCarlo, meant as a "pilot" for an ongoing strip?

The use of the character's name as the story title instead of a medical-show pun would seem to indicate it!
BTW, the TV show titles in the story are variations on actual TV show titles.
Can you figure them out?
We'll give you two for free...
"Dr Ben Casebook" is Ben Casey, one of the major "heartthrob doctor" shows of the era.
"Ambulance 54" is "Car 54, Where Are You?", which was actually a police comedy!
Good luck with the rest of them...

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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 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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