Showing posts with label Joe GIll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe GIll. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2026

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Responding to a warehouse fire, Paramedics Gage and DeSoto discover the fire was set to cover the theft of cases of highly-radioactive radium chloride!

Unfortunately, the thieves damaged the casing of at least one of the containers, which is now leaking!
With one of the thieves captured and hospitalized, the police and paramedics have to find the thief still at large, secure the leaking containers, and treat the thief before radiation poisoning kills him and injures (or kills) any innocents he encounters!










Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!
(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

Friday, May 1, 2026

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Part 1

Before He Reached Superstardom at Marvel and DC on X-Men and Superman...
...writer/illustrator John Byrne cut his artistic teeth in the mid-1970s working on projects like Charlton's Emergency! comic, based on the TV series!
To be Concluded...Next Friday!
Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!
(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

Friday, April 17, 2026

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!

Friday, January 5, 2024

DR TOM BRENT: YOUNG INTERN "Not All Doctors Are Doctors"

...despite being controversial as far back as the 1960s, when this never-reprinted tale from Charlton's Dr Tom Brent: Young Intern #5 (1963) was published!
Written by Joe Gill, penciled by Charles Nicholas, and inkd by Vince Colletta, it's surprising this story got past the Comics Code Authority, since it portrays an authority figure (Dr Edmond) using "vibrotherapy"as untrustworthy.

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Friday, November 24, 2023

OUT OF THIS WORLD "Plague!"

Even when (believe it or not) created for benevolent purposes...
...a deliberately-contagious virus unleashed on the world is no laughing matter!
OK, how can we read other peoples' thoughts in our own dreams, as happens on pages 2 and 3?
Beyond that deliberately-deceptive plot element, this tale from Charlton's Out of This World #6 (1957) written by Charlton mainstay Joe Gill and illustrated by future Spider-Man and Dr Strange co-creator Steve Ditko hangs together fairly well!
Would someone deliberately-conceive and implement a biological weapon (whether for good or evil) today?
Some Reich-wingers believe the recent (and possibly retiurning) coronavirus epidemic was deliberately-engineered by Communist China!
What do you think, dear reader?
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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 ...