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