1979 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1979, Field Newspaper Syndicate (Chicago, IL).

*p. 730-780 on disk from King Features Syndicate. 

All comic strips are posted online by special permission of King Features Syndicate, Inc.

• January 1 - February 14: Dr. Rita Carson & Sylvia, epilepsy (see 1978)
• February 13 - October 4: Kay & Roy Jason
• Keith proposes to Dr. Carson - she says yes but wants to wait
• We're initially led to believe that Kay won't admit she had a drinking problem; Rex insists June goes to visit her at home since they are old friends
• Turns out Kay's husband, Roy (an attorney) is seeing another [scantily clad, younger] woman - we know this because he slaps her across the face when she suggests he isn't giving her enough money (2/10/79)
• He hits her again (4/6/79)  as he threatens her not to see another man (Davey Palomar, a man whom he got off in court even though he was guilty)
• Roy lies to everyone he knows that Kay has a drinking problem
• Roy is plotting to destroy Kay in divorce; she gets pulled over for speeding because Roy has threatened to kill her and take the children
• There is a strange panel that seems to come from nowhere - Roy says that Kay isn't "patriotic" because speeding means she's not conserving gas (5/9/1979)

Rex Morgan, MD - May 9, 1979   © King Features Syndicate

• Rex makes a statement that makes this strip personal to more people: "wife-beating isn't confined to any occupation or profession!" (5/18/79)

Rex Morgan, MD - May 18, 1979   © King Features Syndicate

• Strike 3 (literally): Roy hits Denise (the "other" woman) and this time he kills her (6/4/79)
• Roy admits to Kay he killed Denise, then hits her when she says they need to go to the police (9/6/79)
• Bingo! The teaching point strip: (9/22/79)

Rex Morgan, MD - September 22, 1979   © King Features Syndicate

•  Melissa comes in with fibrillation, requiring a cardiac intensive care unit admission
• October 5 - December 31: Sara Laneer
•  Sara is the daughter of a very wealthy family, who presents to the emergency department awake but unresponsive; her mother refuses to allow psychiatric admission
• Turns out she was on PCP
• There's a new signature on the strips October 29, 1979 - in addition to the others: Frank Springer, who was the penciler for the strip from 1979-1981.
•  Victor Sebastian, some crude looking "family friend" wallops Sara in the face at the hospital, but she can't remember this episode
• Sara has violent outbursts, Rex suspects a drug-related mental illness
• Marijuana usage strip (12/18/1979)
• Another Christmas strip, out of the story line
• Story ends without finish due to missing strips

Rex Morgan, MD - December 25, 1979   © King Features Syndicate

1977 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1977, Field Newspaper Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 626-678 on disk from King Features Syndicate.


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• January 1 - February 2: Mary Gordon, oppressed wife of a surgeon (see 1976)
• February 2 - June 13: Paul Belmont, mob boss 
• Danny Belmont, a 6-year-old boy comes into Dr. Morgan's office due to car accident that June witnesses. It's critical at first (an artery is severed) but is quickly mediated. We learn quickly that he has a dedicated father, and has not spoken a word since his mother died one year ago (he witnessed "his mother blown apart before his eyes")
• This story is briefly interrupted by a homicide (3/2/77); Dr. Morgan receives a gunshot victim, but is dead on arrival - the police suspect it was a professional job; fingerprints point to a mob killing

Rex Morgan, MD - March 3, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• Danny instantly gets attached to June, who visits for dinner - we get snippets of Paul Belmont's professional life - a man named "Garrity" has been murdered and an emergency board meeting is being called
• Victor Lambros cannot be reached - unacceptable!
• June also suggests Danny sees a psychiatrist for his separation issues
• Paul believes his wife was murdered and has been trying to track down the murderer every since - Garrity was supposedly to provide information
• While Melissa shares Paul's life story with June, Danny runs away and is found in the bushes by the police
• Paul turns to the DA when learning his wife and friend (Garrity) were killed by one of his own men
• The stories are ending more abruptly - the conclusions seems to have less grandeur to them...
• June 13 - January 27, 1978: Dr. Jim, "cancer specialist"
• When Dr. Adam doesn't show up for work, an anonymous phone call says that he would be in touch in the morning
• He's been taken hostage by some criminals (wanted for armed robbery) trying to nurse a young woman, Jeannie, back to health without involving authorities
• Brice writes a false prescription to quietly alert authorities; meanwhile, Jeannie falls into a coma
• Jeannie has bacterial meningitis, but survives once put on IV antibiotics
• Jase, the leader of the pack, comes down the with same and dies on the way to the hospital
• Billy, the youngest of the three, is hospitalized for observation, but attempts escape
• Brice appears to be taking a personal interest in Billy

Rex Morgan, MD - August 13, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• Brice takes Billy shopping, gives him car and apartment keys so he can turn his life around
• Dr. Morgan tries to connect Billy with Ellen Glenn, personnel manager of the local auto parts shop; she's due for a physical, and plans to hide her cancer treatments from him (per her 'oncologist's' wishes) Dr. Jim seems a bit dodgy - I think the artist wants us to know this by giving him a mustache more similar to previous criminals than the clean-cut physicians  

Rex Morgan, MD - October 5, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• It's evident that Dr. Jim is a nasty fraud, while his assistant, Charlotte, appears to have a smidge of a conscience
• In an ironic turn of events, Billy picks up work both at Ellen's auto shop, and then cleaning at Dr. Jim's "Health Clinic" in the evenings
• We get a good strip on cancer education (it's been a while since we've seen one of these):

Rex Morgan, MD - November 10, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• Ellen almost dies after a cancer "shot", but Billy saves her by phoning Dr. Adam in time
• Brice confronts Dr. Jim - Go, Brice, go!

Rex Morgan, MD - December 20, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• The plot becomes more intense when Charlotte backs out of the operation and is caught trying to take money from their safe

Rex Morgan, MD - January 7, 1977    © King Features Syndicate

• Dr. Jim is arrested, and Charlotte recovers well at the hospital
• The story shifts slightly to focus again on Billy, and his new friends at work, who appear to be plotting something evil and including Billy in their plans - the poor kid can't catch a break! 
• See details in 1978!

1976 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1976, Field Newspaper Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 574-626 on disk from King Features Syndicate.


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• December 29, 1975 - April 9, 1976: Norm & Elizabeth Prescott
• We start in the middle of a story, with Rex's new patient, Mr. Norm Prescott - who has already given June a vase of roses (shocker!)
• Norm needs a complete physical to take out a $2M insurance policy
• Preliminary blood tests are suspicious and need to be repeated: elevated WBC count and abnormal cells
• Rex watches (looking concerned only when by himself) as June is wooed by yet another dashing, exciting young man
• June is whisked away to Philadelphia with Norm for the night, and answers an agitated phone call from Mrs. Elizabeth Prescott about their son (yikes!) - we learn a few days later that they're divorced, and that there's an argument over money and their son - Norm makes it clear he's only concerned about his son, not the money
• Norm's charm wears off as all of his dates with June are constantly interrupted by work phone calls
• Norm drinks alcohol and takes sleeping pills - not an intentional suicide attempt - after realizing that they want to admit him to the hospital for further testing
• We learn that he's previously had tests, and been told he has leukemia

Rex Morgan, MD - March 19, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• Unknown to Norm, his little boy and wife have arrived at the airport
• Norm is surprised to see Elizabeth, but makes an effort to concentrate on her - he asks them to move back to the house
• We also learn Norm does not have leukemia, and was just fighting off mono
• This story is interrupted by an emergency phone call for Rex...
• April 9 - September 7: Becky Barrett, Barbara & Brick
• Becky initially refuses treatment - she's quite a rebel - but eventually allows Rex to examine her
• Her father is concerned that they no longer communicate well
• Becky is released, and a man name Brick Cutler picks her up
• Becky runs into Rex and June on a date; on their way out they see Brick hitting Becky (out of jealousy):

Rex Morgan, MD - May 15, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• As Rex and June drop Becky off at home, she finds her father unconscious on the floor - Rex is able to get him stabilized in the ER
• Becky thinks her father divorced her mother because of his secretary, 15 years ago
• We learn that Brick has been shot and killed
• Barbara Sears, Mark's secretary, agrees to stay with Becky while her dad is in the hospital
• Becky does not give an accurate story to the police about her last interaction with Brick when questioned about his death
• The police make a comment about "this day and age", and that Brick may have been murdered for drugs:

Rex Morgan, MD - June 23, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• Becky has had an apparent change of heart and is showering Barbara with compliments when they visit Mark at the hospital - it's kind of suspicious...
• Rex brings up open heart surgery to Mark, suggesting the only alternative is to live with bouts of chest pain
• Barbara admits to Rex that she shot Brick - unintentionally (we believe her) - when it started to appear Becky was to be accused of murder
• The story seems to end abruptly, with Barbara's confession and Mark's open heart surgery; it picks up again on 9/17
• September 8 - February 2, 1977: Mary Gordon, oppressed wife of a surgeon
• Dr. Wes Gordon's wife, Mary, phones Brice in a drug/alcohol-induced stupor
• She leaves the hospital against orders for fear of embarrassing her surgeon husband
• She makes several comments where she feels trapped by the stereotype of a surgeon's wife, unable to work as a waitress or go back to school:

Rex Morgan, MD - September 28, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• Apparently Dr. Gordon's study is "off limits" to his wife when he's reading!
• When he gets home from his fishing trip he's upset to find Mary has gone back to school. The nerve! He becomes angrier when she's not home for lunch - she must be out of her mind!
• Dr. Gordon bumps into a couple of women at a bar, and ends up flirting and going out with Sherri Wade, an artist
• Wes then lies to Mary about his plans - he's going to "watch Sherri paint" in the afternoon but tells her he has committee meetings. I'm not impressed.
• Rex is quite bold and confronts Wes directly about his marriage and Mary:

Rex Morgan, MD - December 4, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• While Wesley is out on a date with Sherri, his patient receives emergency surgery for a bowel obstruction
• We break again for an off-topic, yet lovely, Christmas panel (in reading Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics, the use of a single, full panel helps to exaggerate expansive time/meaning - how perfect for Christmas cheer!)

Rex Morgan, MD - December 25, 1976    © King Features Syndicate

• Wesley calls Sherri at 3am to tell her they can't see each other anymore, but they're struck by a drunk driver on their way home
• The story ends quite abruptly - there's initial concern Wes will lose his arm (or its function), but is quickly given a good prognosis; Sherri is discovered to be shallow and Wes makes up with Mary

1975 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 13 Jan - 31 Dec 1975, Publishers-Hall Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 517-574 on disk from King Features Syndicate.


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• January 1 - 13: MISSING
• January 13 - 15: Ben Salvo
• It appears the Salvo story still continues - Rex is talking to a young lady named Jenny, who's in a hospital bed. Ben has left her a small trust, even when he knew she was with a man named Al Davison (Ben must have been in love with Jenny?)
• It's hard to say what happened in this story
• January 16 - May 29: Carl Holden, mental illness
• Brice Adams is called by a mysterious woman, and he leaves immediately - he meets with a young woman named Christine "Chris" Holden (who we learn is his girlfriend), who is upset that her ex-husband, Carl, has been paroled and wants to see her
• Carl nearly killed a man "and practically made a vegetable out of another"
• Carl takes the day off with Chris, but Carl follows them
• February 2 - 9: MISSING
• It appears Carl is being respectful about his apologies to Chris and her interest in Brice
• Carl calls Rex out to his farmhouse when his worker, Eddie, has a coronary - Chris is worried that he's falling back into his old ways

Rex Morgan, MD - March 19, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• Carl has a breakdown and threatens Rex that Brice needs to stay away from his "wife"

Rex Morgan, MD - April 25, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• Carl gets in a fight with both Brice and the cops, who are now chasing him after he sped off when he could not produce a license when pulled over for speeding
• We miss a critical week in the suspense of what will happen to Carl - Chris is on her way to the farmhouse against advice, and Carl is waiting with a shotgun
• May 17 - May 25: MISSING
• The situation seems to have been resolved, with Carl being hospitalized - given a good prognosis being put on lithium

Rex Morgan, MD - May 27, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• May 29 - xxx: Keith Cavell, back in town, and introducing Valerie Layne
• As Keith leaves his hotel room, he overhears the owner being held up at gunpoint
• "As Dr. Keith Cavell thwarts an early morning motel holdup, he is shot by one gunman!"
• Keith was passing through town on his way to see a woman, Valerie Layne, whom he'd met in Africa with her husband
• Mr. Layne died in a plane crash 10 days prior, and Keith was visiting her to make sure she was okay; Valerie comes to him since he's hospitalized
• When suggesting Keith join Rex's practice he mentions that he may not like it because "medicine has changed in the last few years" - he goes on to mention malpractice

Rex Morgan, MD - July 7, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• While Keith is preparing to propose, Valerie learns her husband's plane crash was due to sabotage, and that she's falling in love with Rex - what a day!
• Melissa has another "heart flutter"
• Keith is upset with Rex, thinking that he's moving in on Valerie
• Rex goes with Valerie to meet the investigator on Bill's death in the plane crash
• I find myself feeling very protective over Rex - I get angry when he flirts with anyone but June!
• For the first time, we learn that Rex Morgan is bad at something - mechanics! I guess he is human, after all.

Rex Morgan, MD - October 8, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• Luckily, Valerie seems to be quite the mechanic - for claiming she knows nothing about planes, I'd say she's incriminating herself in her husband's death
• The story is cut short, but here's the last strip we have in the story:

Rex Morgan, MD - October 25, 1975    © King Features Syndicate

• If I had to guess, they probably nail Valerie for sabotaging her husband's plane - I hope that Rex and Keith made up, and that stories were set straight (Rex was not trying to hit on Valerie, as Keith suspected...)
• October 26 - December 28: MISSING
• December 29 - 31: (see 1976)

1971 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1971, Publishers Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 447-465 on disk from King Features Syndicate.


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• January 1 - February 12: The Delacort's, stroke and alcoholism (see 1970)
• February 12 - May 15: Beth & Kevin Brown, child abuse
• A mother brings her child in with a head injury, having fallen from his high chair in the morning and has now become unresponsive
• February 14 - April 11: MISSING
• Beth's mother, Mrs. Stevens, and Beth's husband, Kevin, are concerned about Beth - she's been unusually agitated in the past 6 months
• Kevin initially agrees to see a psychiatrist with Beth, but changes his mind when he thinks "airing" out their problems might lead to her being committed
• Kevin keeps the appointment, and his interview with the psychiatrist suggests that he's a bit more aggressive than necessary with his 2- and 3-year olds (see image)

Rex Morgan, MD - April 29, 1971    © King Features Syndicate

• It turns out that Kevin has been abusing the children, and Beth has been covering for him (see image)

Rex Morgan, MD - May 12, 1971    © King Features Syndicate

• Story ends with Kevin admitting that he'll do anything the doctor asks (including reporting himself to juvenile court authorities)
• May 16 - September 19: MISSING
• September 20 - October 23: Heidi Claridge, the pathological liar
• Enter the middle of a story with Heidi, Melissa's niece, driving a suspicious Dr. Brice Adams out to the lake, but she gets upset and leaves him in the middle of nowhere
• Rex has asked Heidi to marry him?! Or so Heidi tells Melissa...
• Heidi turns out to be a pathological liar. Phew!
• Heidi files a complaint to the police against Rex when he won't submit to her wooing
• Melissa slaps her in the face for what she's done!

Rex Morgan, MD - October 16, 1971    © King Features Syndicate

• The story is cut short, but ends with Melissa seeing Heidi off, Heidi again tricking her into feeling guilty for what's she done.
• October 24 - December 19: MISSING
• December 20 - January 22, 1972: Justin Babcock & Kathy Taylor, minors
• We start in the middle of a story, with this description text, "When Rex Morgan and Scooter Babcock question Beth Weldon, they find her very defensive!"
• We learn something about Justin Babcock breaking into an apartment thinking that inside, a Kathy Taylor had overdosed on drugs
• Justin sneaks out of the hospital - he's just had knee surgery - to find Kathy, who sounds like she's on drugs
• We find out Justin's mother passed away from alcoholism, that Justin is a clean kid but has gotten caught up in messes by trying to help other kids break their addictions
• Kathy is brought to intensive care after passing out in a diner, but recovers well
• The story is cut short, but likely only by one strip that may/may not have added anything else to the plot

1970 Comic Strips: A Summary

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)

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)

Rex Morgan, MD - March 27, 1970    © King Features Syndicate

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)

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)

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)

Rex Morgan, MD - January 8, 1971    © King Features Syndicate

• Stacie voices her frustration that there's no cure for alcoholism (see image)

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

1968 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 1 Jan - 31 Dec 1968, Publishers Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 310-361 on disk from King Features Syndicate.

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• February 26 - July 5: Senator Wesley "Wes" Parker Thorne...on steroids
• Betsy Thorne meets Rex secretly to voice her concerns about her husband's health; she's found a pill in his pocket, Rex suspects it's steroids
• Wesley is a presidential candidate-to-be, but has been irritable uncooperative lately, which is unlike his normal personality
• Wes is increasingly delusional about his presidential nomination, making plans for his new cabinet before he's even nominated; he continues to be rude to his wife when she voices her concern about his health, 6/28/68 (see image below)

Rex Morgan, MD - June 28, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

•  In the very next strip, Wes admits something is wrong with him and agrees to begin admitted to the hospital, and declares he's going to withdraw from the presidential race (see image below)

Rex Morgan, MD - July 3, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

• This story closes with Wes' father praising him for being courageous enough to make the announcement to the public; but we never learn what's actually wrong with Wes
• July 5 - Nvember 15: Karl Lamon, serial killer
• A long-distance phone call from Karl Lamon puts Ginny into a panic
• Karl shows up after Keith Cavell (who's made yet another surprise visit - this time back from Vietnam) drops her off at the end of their date
• He slaps her when she doesn't give up Keith's name, 8/5/68 (see image)

Rex Morgan, MD - August 5, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

• It appears Karl is a hitman, and has killed two guys who tried to date Ginny, as well as several other prominent businessmen (later we learn he's killed over 20 people)
• Karl leaves town to visit his next "customer" - he checks into a hospital (instead of a hotel); kills another businessman
• Keith roughs up Karl for hitting Ginny; threatens him to never see her again; Karl hits Keith
• Keith finds Ginny just in time before Karl nearly kills her
• Lamon is turned over to the police and confesses all his crimes, 11/14/68 (see image below)

Rex Morgan, MD - November 14, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

• November 15 - February 25, 1969: Julie Rockwell, marijuana hippie
• Side story: Keith prepares to propose to Ginny, and shows his insecurity, given his reputation as a confirmed bachelor, 11/20/68 (see image)

Rex Morgan, MD - November 20, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

• Julie's father is concerned that her behavior has changed in the last few months; high strung and irritable, withdrawn from her friends, etc.
• Julie's blowing her mother's inheritance on drugs
• Rex gives Mr. Rockwell and education on psychotomimetics (see image)

Rex Morgan, MD - December 23, 1968     © King Features Syndicate

• Julie overdoses on marijuana and barbituates and is taken to the emergency room where Rex treats her
• She calls her dealer, Vic, secretly, insisting that "the movement needs" her
• When the hospital staff doesn't give her adequate pain medication for her headache, she escapes to Vic, who gives her more pills
• Julie has a confirmed frontal lobe tumor, and has been taking morphine from Vic
• This story ends with Julie's good prognosis, and that the she will be helping the police track down the other protesters that were giving her drugs

1958 Comic Strips: A Summary

Source*: Curtis, Dal. Rex Morgan, MD. 2 Feb - 14 Jun 1958, Publishers Syndicate (Chicago, IL). 
*p. 1-17 on disk from King Features Syndicate.


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• January 1 - February 16: MISSING
• February 17 - June 9: The Remington Twins, kidney disease
• Twin brothers, Eric and Derek Remington, are both in love with June Gale, Rex Morgan's former office nurse
• June returns after months away (in NYC?)
• *physical abuse* - Eric hits Derek in fight over June
• Derek, the nice twin, is diagnosed with "a rather advanced polycystic disease", 5/2/58, and he can only be cured with a kidney transplant from an identical twin (what are the chances!)
• Eric turns a 180 and becomes worried about his brother's health when he realizes how serious his disease is
• Derek dies before he gets to surgery, even after Eric agrees to risk his life for the small chance he could save his brother

Rex Morgan, MD - May 16, 1958     © King Features Syndicate

• June 5 - 14: Martha Wheaton, mental illness
• Martha Wheaton, a patient Rex saw 10 years ago, is to be discharged after years of hospitalization for a chronic mental illness
• Strip ends on 6/14/58
• June 15 - December 31: MISSING