Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics JUGHEAD "The Patient"

What happens when the best friend of America's Most Famous Comic Book TeenAger is taken ill?

Well, it seems the gang's true feelings about him come out...

Written by Dick Malmgren and illustrated by Saam Schwartz, this tale from Archie's Jughead #250 (1976) seems to show how little respect Forsythe Pendleton Jones III engenders in his associates...except for Archie!

I hope the current version of the characters has revised this concept...

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CoronaVirus Comics: On Memorial Day, See the Bio-Weapons Our Enemies Could Use Against Us...

...on Our "Brother" RetroBlog...

...as we explore past pandemic atrocities that could've happened...like these...

Bookmark it, because there's more to come!

CoronaVirusComics FORBIDDEN WORLDS "Alien Germs"

By the late 1950s, we were so confident in advances in medicine...

...that the only way we'd face a catastrophic pandemic was if it was of alien (that's extraterrestrial, not illegal) origin!

Wow!
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...

See the diifferences?

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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Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics STRANGE TALES "Germ Warfare"

You gotta admit...there's nothing "madder" than GIANT germs!

(and, yes, as our post yesterday pointed out, germs aren't viruses!)

If these people weren't irradiated by the bomb (fatally, if not enough to render them all sterile), it would be a miracle!

But can we blame plotter Stan Lee, writer Larry Lieber, and artist Paul Reinman from glossing over that minor point in a tale for 8-15 year-old kids?

Note: this story from Atlas' Strange Tales #90 (1961) has been reprinted, that reprint was in Marvel's Fantasy Masterpieces #6 (1967), so I'd say the 53-year gap since its' last publication was sufficient to justify running it!

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