Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2025

CONFESSIONS OF THE LOVELORN "Man in My Past!"

Warning: the story under this Ken Bald-illustrated cover is about an incurable disease...
...but it's not the incurable disease you'll think it is after the first few pages!
So he's not cured, but in remission, though the doctor says the operation was a "complete success"!
Written by editor Richard E Hughes and illustrated by Howard Alexander, this never-reprinted tale from ACG's Confessions of the LoveLorn #57 (1955) tries to make Alan honorable, even noble!
But instead of being honest with his wife, he all-but-abandoned her and then returned years later expecting her to take him back!

Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween Hospital Horrors DRACULA "Invasion"

Disease Takes Many Forms...

...as this rather bizarre one-shot feature demonstrates!
Kool, eh?
Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!
It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine, and as a standalone tale in full-color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!
So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!
Trivia: Despite being named "Dracula", the magazine had no Dracula content, except for a one-page humor strip on the back cover without captions or dialogue!
Ironically, it was the one strip not reprinted in the British or American editions...despite not needing translation!
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(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)
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Friday, January 10, 2025

PATSY WALKER "Great Idea!"

There used to be lots more to teen humor comics than just Archie and his friends...
...with every comics publisher from the late 1940s through the early 1970s doing them! 
Created by writer Stuart Little (no, he's not a talking mouse) and artist Ruth Atkinson, Patsy Walker first appeared in Timely's Miss America Magazine #2 (1944).
Redheaded Patsy Walker, parents Stanley and Betty, boyfriend Robert "Buzz" Baxter, and insanely-rich, raven-haired friendly rival Hedy Wolfe appeared from the 1944 through 1967 in various teen humor anthologies as well as several self-titled comics.
Trivia: Patsy Walker (along with Millie the Model and Kid Colt: Outlaw) were the only titles published continuously by Marvel from Timely in the Golden Age, through Atlas in the 1950s, to Marvel in the  Silver Age!
Patsy, Buzz and Hedy are all part of the Marvel Universe from Marvel's Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965) when Patsy and Hedy attended the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm!
Patsy later became the superheroine HellCat, and Buzz was revealed to be the supervillain Mad-Dog!
Patsy (and HellCat) appeared on the NetFlix series Jessica JonesLuke Cage, and Defenders, played (at various ages from child to adulthood) by Rachael Taylor, Catherine Blades, and Audrey Grace Marshall, making her part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
(Note: she's called "Trish", not "Patsy" in the MCU)
Written and illustrated by the versatile Al Jaffee (before he moved over to MAD Magazine), this never-reprinted story from Atlas' Patsy Walker #36 (1951) promoted contributing to the charity created in 1946 by newsman Walter Winchell (best known today as the narrator of the 1960s TV show Untouchables) to honor his friend, writer Damon Runyon, who died of cancer!
The charity, now called Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, still exists!

Friday, September 30, 2022

Prelude to Haunted Hospital J N WILLIAMSON'S MASQUES "Billion Monstrosities"

It's almost October!
Time for spooky stuff...
...which is still medically-oriented!
Written by editor Mort Castle, illustrated by Tim Vigil.
This two-issue mini-series was a graphic spin-off from a long-running, award-winning prose horror anthology. 
Next Week:
We'll be presenting a month-long saga featuring Marvel's "Mightiest Medics"...

...including Doctor StrangeDr Jane Foster as ValkyrieNight NurseCardiacExcalibur, and Manikin, to save Death itself from oblivion!
It's our annual Haunted Hospital Halloween blogathon cranked up to "11"!
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Friday, March 25, 2022

M.D. "Right Cure"

Some people have always been suspicious of medical practitioners...

...as we sadly saw during the recent pandemic.
As this tale from EC's M.D. #3 (1955) by writer Al Feldstein and artist Graham Ingels shows, ignorance can be as lethal as disease!
At least the stupidity shown in this tale wasn't based on politicizing medicine, as happened during the CoronaVirus pandemic.
If that concept had been incorporated into this story, it would've been rejected as too far-fetched...even for comic books!

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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 ...