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...

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!

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)!

LINDA LARK: STUDENT NURSE "Remember My Name!"

You Met John Stanley's Only Medical Creation, Linda Lark HERE...

...now let's see how she's adjusting to life as a student nurse!

Will Dr Blasko think about more than just Nurse Linda's name?

Only writer/layout artist John Stanley and penciler/inker John Tartaglione (along with the too-few readers who read the series) know what happens after this never-reprinted story from Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961).

Eventually, you will know, as well!

Note: Linda's not desperately-needy (and horny) like Nurse Helen Grant or neurotic (and horny) like Mary Robin R.N. and most other extremely horny comic book nurses!

So, the answer will surprise you!

LINDA LARK: STUDENT NURSE "Introduction"

Writer/artist John Stanley is noted for a number of fascinating, unique, comic book series...

...including, most famously, the comic book version of the newspaper strip Little Lulu!

But he also dabbled in non-humor material creating the ongoing horror anthology Ghost Stories and the one-shot, oversized, Tales from the Tomb, along with this rather unique nursing series which played fast and loose with the genre's cliches and tropes...

With illustrator and co/creator John Tartaglione, John Stanley begins subverting the nursing strip genre from this never-reprinted introductory tale in Dell's Linda Lark: Student Nurse #1 (1961) onward.

She's not desperately-needy (and horny) like Nurse Helen Grant or the neurotic (and horny) Mary Robin R.N. and most other extremely horny comic book nurses!

She's hyper-competent, and actually has a (relatively) normal life outside the hospital!

During her eight-issue run, she was a student nurse, then a registered nurse (in just one issue)!

She also solved crimes, traveled into danger in foreign lands, appeared in a medical TV series...and became the first American woman in space!

Even when they did a story involving her former high school sweetheart who had become a doctor, the story didn't go quite like you'd expect!

And, she'll be replacing Doctor Dan Dazzler, whose series ends in November, as our ongoing feature!

But next week, it's the return of our annual...

Halloween Hospital Horrors Blogathon!

There's never a dull moment around here!