By the late 1950s, we were so confident in advances in medicine...
Is there nothing science (with assistance from alien tech) can't solve?
According to this story from ACG's Forbidden Worlds #71 (1958) by writer/editor Richard Hughes and artist John Rosenberger the answer was clearly "NO"!
Interestingly, when the story was reprinted in ACG's Adventures into the Unknown #166 (1966), only two things were altered...both on the title page...
The title has been altered and the extremely-optimistic opening blurb about mankind's almost-miraculous medical acumen was deleted!
Was it simply because, in the mid-1960s, we were no longer totally-trusting about our government and other authority figures?
Or was it...dare I say it...a conspiracy?
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If only research labs could work around the clock 24-7 NOW, we'd have Corona/Covid-19 licked in TWO months instead of how long it's taking now to create one. Dr. Phil (McGraw) is right: the situation is worse than the disease itself in terms of how it's affecting all of us having to be in isolation (yet people are attacking him for saying this!🙄)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great look back at the history of comic books; thanks for posting.