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.


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

• 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