Marvel Comics, The American Cancer Society and the Story So Nice, They Told it Twice!

Actually, it wasn't a "nice" tale, but we wanted an alliterative title...

In 1982, Marvel and the American Cancer Society co-produced a giveaway comic against under-21 smoking starring Spider-Man, Storm of The X-Men and Luke Cage: Power Man vs the villain called...SmokeScreen!
In 1998, they reprinted the comic, but the response from medical offices was poor, with kids not interested in the "old-fashioned" artwork!
So it was decided to keep the script (almost verbatim) and redraw it, start to finish!

Here are both versions for you to "compare and contrast"!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 1

Part 2

Which do you prefer?

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NEGRO ROMANCE "Tragic Vow"

After the recent two-parter about an interracial romance between a doctor and a nurse...

...I received an e-mail asking "Are there any comic stories featuring a Black medical professional in a relationship that isn't interracial?"

With my usual diligent research, I found two!

One can be found HERE!

This is the other one...

Scripted by editor Roy Ald and illustrated by prolific Golden Age artist Rudy Palais, this never-reprinted story from Fawcett's Negro Romances #1 (1950) probably suprised a number of readers who were used to seeing Black nurses, but not Black doctors (or doctors in training)!

In ongoing comic series, the only example I could find was Dr Claire Temple, who was involved with both Luke Cage (Hero for Hire/Power Man/Cage) and ex-husband Dr Bill Foster (Black Goliath/Giant-Man II/Goliath IV) who was not an MD like her, but a PhD-holding biochemist!

As you might have guessed, they ended up fighting it out for her affections, as super-heroes tend to do in such situations!

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) is an RN instead of an MD,  she and Luke Cage (Mike Colter) are, as they say, "involved"!

Dr Bill Foster/Goliath (Laurence Fishburne) is Dr Henry Pym/Ant-Man 1's (Michael Douglas) former business and research partner.

There is no mention of any connection between Temple and Foster in the Marvel movies or TV series...so far!

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(which includes the comics stories featuring Linda Carter meeting Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist which were adapted into their linked Netflix/Marvel Cinematic Universe series with Claire Temple replacing Carter as Night Nurse!)