*p. 126-172 on disk from King Features Syndicate.
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- December 3 - April 16, 1964: Jeanie Tang, heroin addict
- January 1 - 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
- Jeanie complains of headaches and begs for an "envelope" from Nero - she's up to 3x/week and spending almost all of her salary on it
- January 12 - 19: MISSING
- Al confronts Jeanie about her addiction, asks her to see Rex
- January 26 - February 2: MISSING
- Nero sends Jeanie out to a farmhouse (with henchman, Kleeg) in the country, where "Mama Bess" gives her a fix
- Mama Bess wallops Jeanie when she tries to escape (overcome by pain)
- March 8 - 15: MISSING (suspect Rex finds Jeanie during this time)
- Rex suspects Jeanie either has a brain tumor or a ruptured aneurysm, and schedules her a craniotomy (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - March 27, 1964 © King Features Syndicate |
- Nero lies to the police and accuses Al of supplying Jeanie with the heroin
- April 5 - April 12: MISSING
- Nero, Mama Bess and cronies are arrested after Rex helps the police bring them in
- April 17 - August 13: Mr. Homer Standly, frontal lobe tumor
- Kate Standly, who lives with her father, is worried about his mental status
- Jim Walden, Kate's fiance, is fed up with her father's erratic behavior and the devotion she shows to him
- Homer puts an advertisement in the paper about Rex and Kate's intended marriage, completely confused by the purpose of his visit
- Rex explains a brain lesion can cause symptoms of mental illness, 6/19/ 1964 (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - June 19, 1964 © King Features Syndicate |
- June gives her 2 week notice when she see's the wedding announcement, and Rex has not told her
- Teaching moment strip, patient perspective of having a brain tumor, 7/21/64 (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - July 21, 1964 © King Features Syndicate |
- August 13 - January 9, 1965: Don & Rick Santell, alcoholics
- Don Santell, the country's new singing sensation, is found by his bookie, Jocko Mapes, after being beat up in a parking lot
- Rex administers a tetanus shot
- Rick, Don's estranged brother and admitted alcoholic, shows up - Jocko cares about him, Don hates him (due to an historic fight over a girl with whom Rick was in love)
- Rex explains the relationship between delirium tremens and alcoholism, 9/25/64 (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - September 26, 1964 © King Features Syndicate |
- Teaching moment, patient perspective on alcoholism, 10/30/64 (see image)
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| Rex Morgan, MD - October 30, 1964 © King Features Syndicate |
- Don refuses to offer support to Rick for when he's discharged from the hotel and needs rehabilitation for his drinking
- Don proposes to June on Christmas at Melissa's
- In the end, Don and Rick decide to go to an AA meeting after Jocko gives Don the truth that he's a terrible performer, and needs his brother, the best arranger in the business
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