*p. 259-309 on disk from King Features Syndicate.
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- January 2 - February 25: Burton story, LSD (see 1966)
- February 26 - March 5: MISSING
- March 6 - June 10: Wilson "Wil" Westwood, the Novelist, and the Club Singer
- Wilson's sister, Agatha ("Aggie"), wants him committed to a mental hospital, provoked by his infatuation with night club singer Wendy Marlow - she's young enough to be his daughter
- Wilson gets in club brawl when another man tries to dance with Wendy
- Aggie is upset when Wil says he wants to marry Wendy
- Wendy meets Clark Garroway, orchestra leader, at the local hotel she's checked into
- We find out that Aggie and Wil's mother has now passed, but 10 years prior had Wil committed to a sanitarium (possibly to prevent him from marrying a woman named Martha)
- Rex and June bump into Wil and Wendy at dinner - they decide to dine together
- Meanwhile, Agatha has acute chest pain at home (emotional), 4/8/67
- Rex and Wil go to Wendy's opening night while June stays with a sedated Agatha (second episode of chest pain after Wil brings up Wendy)
- Rex tries to talk Aggie down from being so resistant to Wendy
- Clark and Wendy are driven off the road by a couple of "unsavory characters"
- Clark tells Aggie that Wendy is in love with Wil, and she stops fighting it when Wil and Wendy decide to marry
- June 10 - October 10: Karl Kessler, Electronics Genius
- Karl thinks his wife, Fran, is developing neurotic fears, refusing to leave the house or answer the phone
- Jodie Winters, Karl's secretary, agrees to stay with Fran when Karl leaves town for a week
- We find out that Fran used to be a dramatic actress before she married Karl
- Fran ODs on barbituates, a suicide attempt, 8/3/67
- Info strip, 8/9/67 (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - August 9, 1967 © King Features Syndicate |
- Walter, Karl's driver, suggests Jodie is the one placing calls to Fran, and that she's not making it up
- Walter's daughter, Florence, has been hospitalized for years, and Walter never misses a visit; we find out that Walter believes it's Karl's fault she's hospitalized, and that "he, too, would suffer---just as he made my Florence suffer".
- Walter holds hostage Rex, Fran and Nurse Lowell, waiting for Karl to show to up settle old scores
- Rex negotiates Walter down, and Karl tells his side of the story - he is, of course, innocent
- October 11 - February 24, 1968: Dr. Nancy Willobee, Psychologist/Stalker
- Nancy Willobee, PhD, is a psychology teacher at the local university, in trouble for denying students admission to class for being unkept
- Nancy gets the smallpox vaccine from Rex
- Nancy pulls out all the moves to seduce Rex at her home (she lives with her wealthy father)
- Students protest against Nancy, she retaliates - the students are worried that they'll be contacted by the draft board if they're kicked out of school
- She admits to Rex that she actually likes the students (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - November 9, 1967 © King Features Syndicate |
- Nancy leaves for the family lake house, but is attacked by two men that follow her
- Rex drives up to check on her, and saves the day
- Nancy lays it on even thicker, showing up unannounced at the hospital at night (she keeps kissing him, making him uncomfortable)
- The Christmas day comic strip is entirely different from the rest of the story - a tribute to the troops (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - December 25, 1967 © King Features Syndicate |
- June, upset by Rex's distraction by Nancy, asks for a year's leave of absence but is interrupted by yet another phone call from Nancy
- June gets pneumonia - Rex drops everything to take care of her
- She's put in an oxygen tent, IV penicillin when her fever doesn't break
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