Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1970, Publishers Syndicate (Chicago, IL).
*p. 413-447 on disk from King Features Syndicate.
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- January 1 - 14: June & Willie (see 1969)
- January 14 - xxx: Susie Mitchell
- Susie's brother calls Rex concerned about his sister, who is a budding actress sensation
- Susie keeps blanking out, becoming unresponsive in the middle of a conversation; she's only aware that something strange is going on but doesn't know what (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - February 2, 1970 © King Features Syndicate |
- Rex meets up with Susie - she is (of course) in love with him, but is strangely absent-minded in communicating with him
- Susie spaces out at work, causing problems at her rehearsal; her manager, Ben Price reassures her
- An EEG shows signs of petit mal seizures - Rex explains in a couple strips, 3/27-28/70 (see images)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - March 27, 1970 © King Features Syndicate |
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| Rex Morgan, MD - March 28, 1970 © King Features Syndicate |
- The director pulls Susie from the play because she keeps having seizures during rehearsal
- Story is incomplete due to missing strips
- May 10 - August 30: MISSING
- August 31 - February 12, 1971: The Delacort's, stroke, alcoholism
- Apparently Rex is ill, and Dr. Brice Adam appears to have joined Rex's service
- Brice has an altercation with their latest patient, Whitney Delacort; his daughter is furious
- Whitney is convinced that something is terribly wrong with him
- Stacie lures Brice to her house to feign interest in him, holding him up from answering his phone calls
- Meanwhile, Rex covers for him and responds to a cerebral thrombosis (stroke) that Whitney has; Brice eventually catches up and Rex fill him in (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - October 22, 1970 © King Features Syndicate |
- Brice is scolded for not being available while on call, and Rex gives him an ultimatum to either shape up or practice elsewhere
- November 8 - 22: MISSING
- It appears Stacie is an alcoholic; she hits her maid when she's confronted about it
- Stacie drives drunk to a bar, where she's refused service because she is "unescorted"
- She throws her glass at the bartender when he refuses to refill her drink; Brice arrives and talks down the owner from calling the police
- Stacie "commits" to quitting
- Brice has to attend to an emergency coronary and must put off his date with Stacie
- Brice follows Stacie up to the ski lodge where he finds her drinking - he confronts her, then hits her friends who tell him to leave
- Rex and Brice talk about the frustrations of dealing with an alcoholic (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - January 8, 1971 © King Features Syndicate |
- Stacie drives drunk; resulting accident kills a woman - Brice tries to protect her, Rex explains their responsibility as physicians (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - January 8, 1971 © King Features Syndicate |
- Stacie voices her frustration that there's no cure for alcoholism (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - January 29, 1971 © King Features Syndicate |
- The story ends with Stacie admitting everything to the police and telling her father everything, mostly that she wants to get help
