*p. 76-125 on disk from King Features Syndicate.
All comic strips are posted online by special permission of King Features Syndicate, Inc.
- January 1 - 3: Mrs. Williams, diabetes
- January 4 - 9: Tracy, Paul and Keith
- Tracy gets another call from Paul - they both miss each other, Tracy tells Paul they just have to be apart for a year
- Keith phones Tracy and sets up a date with her
- January 10 - 12: A Child, acid burns of the cornea
- A child comes in with acid burns to the cornea; the ophthalmologist says the damage won't be permanent because the parents were quick to wash with luke-warm water (teaching moment!)
 |
| Rex Morgan, MD - January 12, 1963 © King Features Syndicate |
- January 13 - March 4: Tracy & Paul
- Tracy goes out with Keith, has a great time, and struggles with the possibility of breaking up with Paul (her fiance whom she plans to marry after residency)
- When Tracy tells Paul she wants to marry immediately, he flies down to see her - this is when we learn Paul is blind, and knows that Tracy is in love with someone else
- Paul Winthrop lost his vision in a car accident at 18 - Tracy was driving, but apparently it wasn't her fault; she can't admit to this
- Paul flies home, Tracy hopes Keith will one day return
- March 4 - July 26: Dr. Bernard Van Bern, the looove doctor
- Dr. Van Bern is clearly a fraud, but Mrs. William Plutark, wife of a wealthy industrialist, holds a reception in his honor; women flock
- Rex is not impressed
- Mrs. Plutark insists on her daughter, Elizabeth Corey, seeing Van Bern to save her marriage
- Van Bern hypnotizes Elizabeth, instructing that she'll be very happy in her marriage, but will break down when she hears the name Lola Laroc (who we know is in cahoots with Van Bern)
- Rex stops by the Corey residence to see their child, who has bronchitis
- Van Bern tells Mrs. Plutark a [false] secret: that Jack is legally married to Lola Laroc, not Elizabeth; he says he'll handle it
- Lola is set up to blackmail Jack, saying she'll go to the police unless she's paid $75k
- Jack and Rex are worried that Elizabeth is mentally ill
- Rex checks with the police: Van Bern = Professor Borrigard, con man
- Van Bern and Lola get busted; Jack's reputation is restored, Elizabeth gets psychiatric care
- July 26 - December 3: C. Robert "Bob" Wiley & Wife Midge, coronaries and stress
- Rex is called when Bob has a minor coronary; his wife is upset because they have dinner with the president of Bob's company (she's convinced he just had indigestion)
- Strip educates about a doctor's responsibility versus ability to treat the unwilling, 8/8/63 (see image)
 |
| Rex Morgan, MD - August 8, 1963 © King Features Syndicate |
- Teaching strip on coronaries, 8/9/63 (see image)
 |
| Rex Morgan, MD - August 9, 1963 © King Features Syndicate |
- Midge pushes Bob to accept a promotion, but the stress causes him a serious coronary - another great time for a teaching strip, 8/28/63 (see image)
 |
| Rex Morgan, MD - August 28, 1963 © King Features Syndicate |
- Mr. Wiley goes into fibrillation while Mrs. Wiley has taken Rex out to wine and dine (and flirt and distract and...)
- Bob confronts both his wife the the VP of his company to tell them that he's prefer to be in sales rather than take the promotion to a managerial position
- Midge feigns overdosing on sleeping pills after hearing this to scare her husband into doing what she wants
- Midge slaps Rex in the face and he gives her a piece of his mind; this moves Midge to soften up and support Bob's decision to return to sales
- December 3 - April 16, 1964: Jeanie Tang, heroine addict
- December 15 - January 5: MISSING
- Jeanie Tang is a singer at a local night club owned by sleeze-ball Nero
- Al Croyden fears she's not well and approaches Rex about her health
No comments:
Post a Comment