*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
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| 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"
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| 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)
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