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MD 1 |
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M.D. #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
0748850004
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Owner Comments
The first issue in this series introduces us to the concept of "modern medicine" as it existed in 1955. In the first story we read how fortunate we are to have treatments for pain including anesthetics for a safe and comfortable operation to relieve the pain from broken bones. My favorite story in this issue is "The Antidote," which puts the reader in the role of William T. Anders, "a doctor, an M.D." who is forced to neglect his personal and family life to take care of a boy with appendicitis.
This issue has my favorite cover, by Johnny Craig. If anyone knows where the original art for the cover is located, I would love to see it. It is the only issue not approved by the Comics Code.
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MD 2 |
| Item: |
M.D. #2 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.0 |
| Cert #: |
0763598002
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Owner Comments
In M.D. #2 we read about a young boy ostracized by his friends and father because he has cerebral palsy causing him to lack control of his muscles. After finally meeting a caring pediatrician and obtains physical therapy, and in the final panel we see him playing catch with his dad. And we learn about Auggie as he awaits an operation for a brain tumor. We learn about his difficult life and failures, only to find out that after his operation he will be executed for the crime of murder.
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MD 3 |
| Item: |
M.D. #3 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 8.0 |
| Cert #: |
0806099004
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Owner Comments
In this issue we meet Tad, a young boy teased by the older boys because he is afraid to go sledding down "The Snake," the most dangerous sledding hill in town. He decides to take on the hill but in the middle of his ride he loses control and crashes. He is taken to his house where the local doctor decides he has serious chest injuries requiring emergency thoracotomy (operation to open the chest) which he performs right on the kitchen table (see cover)! Wow! Talk about house calls! Needless to say, the boy recovers and in the final panel we see him a month later with his sled, about to once again tackle "The Snake!"
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MD 4 |
| Item: |
M.D. #4 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.6 |
| Cert #: |
0806041014
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Owner Comments
In the first story of this issue, we meet a mother who has to bring her son to the hospital to be placed in an iron lung, used to help polio victims breath. She gets angry at the doctor taking care of him, regarding him as uncaring. Then the doctor sits mom down and tells her an uplifting story about a boy who had polio like her son. The boy recovered and with hard work, physical therapy and dedication graduated at the top of his class and went on to succeed in medical school and as a physician. In the end, we see a tear in the mom's eye as she realizes the boy the doctor told her about was the doctor himself!
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MD 5 |
| Item: |
M.D. #5 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 8.5 |
| Cert #: |
0806099005
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Owner Comments
In the last story of this final issue we read about a man obsessed about needing an operation for his abdominal pain. After being told he does not need an operation he gets angry, then depressed, and the surgeon has to literally talk him off the ledge of a building so he can get counseling.
Around the time they stopped printing this series, EC cancelled all the "New Directions" comics and only one EC book remained in the market, a magazine called "Mad."
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