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| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 | |
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| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | |
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Scott’s Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar – Christmas Eve
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4356 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4356 It’s Christmas Eve! Only one last day until Christmas, and this year’s penultimate Advent Calendar Comic Book Countdown cover tries to take over the world!
Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special #1
(DC Comics, January 1996)
Click on the cover for larger view
1 Day until Christmas!
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4356">http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4356</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4356">http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4356</a></p><p>It’s Christmas Eve! Only one last day until Christmas, and this year’s penultimate <em>Advent Calendar Comic Book Countdown</em> cover tries to take over the world!</p>
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<img src="http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/images/1m.jpg" alt="cover, Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special #1" border="1" width="250" height="378" title="cover, Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special #1"/></a></p>
<div style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;padding-top:7px; font-family: serif; ">Pinky and the Brain Christmas Special #1<span style="font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal; font-family: serif;"> <br /> (DC Comics, January 1996)</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 110%; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-family: serif;">Click on the cover for larger view</div>
<p><span style="font-size: 210%; color: red;">1 Day until Christmas!</span></center><br />
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<span class="xmas"><a href="http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/">This year’s Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar</a> (so far). </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> One year ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/2185">Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Funnies #1</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Two years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1861">Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #1</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Three years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1511">Jingle Belle #1</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Four years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1053">Santa Claus Funnies #1</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Five years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/479">Christmas With the Super-Heroes #1</a></strong></span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Don’t miss <strong>Yet Another Comic Blog</strong>’s <a href="http://yetanothercomicsblog.blogspot.com/">annual advent calendar</a></span>
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | |
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The Scratch of Death
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4341 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4341  Betsy Crane’s friend and fellow nurse Diane has met and fallen in love with a Jeff, a widower with a young daughter. He saved her from drowning a few weeks before and she has fallen head over heels in love with him.
One day though, Jeff is uncharacteristically brusque to her and Betsy when encountering them on the street. The two nurses head over to Jeff’s house to figure out what is wrong. Jeff is angry that Diane has appeared on his doorstep, but it doesn’t stop him from complaining of a severe headache and eyes that are very sensitive to light. He also suffers a seizure while Diane is pleading with him. Meanwhile, Betsy is talking to Jeff’s young daughter, who mentions that her dog Shag has been hiding from her lately and doesn’t want to play. She also mentions that her father won’t take her swimming anymore because he is afraid of the water. Betsy puts two and two together and realizes that Jeff has rabies, and that he must have gotten from the dog Shag.
Betsy calls her boss Dr. Kiel and he rushes an ambulance out to collect Jeff and admit him to the hospital. He is given daily rabies injections and suffers “sleepless nights and momentary spasms” but “Dr. Kiel and Betsy were always there giving their medical skill and tireless sympathy.” Three weeks later, Jeff is released from the hospital, completely cured, and he and Diane (and Jeff’s daughter and her new dog, Little Shaggy) live happily ever after.
  
Even by the low standards of a fifty-year old romance comic, this is a horrible and misleading story medically:
Although this is clearly a story about rabies, the word “rabies” is never used.
 Jeff has “hydrophobia” (an older, and now seldom used term), but never “rabies.”
A wild fox was “rabid” and bit Shag, who became “sick.”Rabies is not that easily cured.
In the entire history of mankind, only a handful of people have survived rabies without receiving injection therapy, and even then they all suffered from some brain damage, usually quite severe. At this point in time (forty-eight years after the comic was written), the best case scenario utilizes the recently developed “ Milwaukee protocol” — but it’s only been used successfully twice.
Yes, Jeff did receive rabies injections, but at that point his rabies was so far along — he’d already developed neurological signs including seizures — it wouldn’t have done much good.
Plus, Dr Kiel gave the injection wrong. Most of it should be injected near the bite, not in another limb entirely.
Bottom Line: Even if Jeff had somehow managed to survive the rabies (very very unlikely, say about 10,000:1 odds), he would be left with months if not years of intense physical therapy afterward. There is no way he would walk out of the hospital completely cured in three short weeks.Hydrophobia refers to symptoms in the later stage of rabies that include the fear of drinking water (and other liquids) — because of the paralysis and pain from the disease — not fear of bodies of water.
Check out the cover for a wonderfully sensationalistic stalker-tastic image of a man with rabies hydrophobia.
I’ll give the comic credit for at least acknowledging that rabies is caused by a virus.
Finally, a wonderfully condescending scene that likely led to Jeff’s young daughter being psychologically scarred for life:
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| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | |
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Monday PSA: Superboy in “How to Bring Christmas Cheer!”‘
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4335 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4335
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<p><img src="http://www.politedissent.com/images/holly.jpg" alt="Happy Holidays" hspace="3"/>I haven’t read too many Superboy stories, but does he come across as smug and condescending in the comics as he does in these PSAs?</p>
<p><img src="http://www.politedissent.com/images/holly.jpg" alt="Happy Hoildays" hspace="3"/>For those of you <a href="http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4281#comment-664639">paying attention last week</a>, this week has even more instances of Superboy’s cape mysteriously flying out behind him and seeming to defy gravity. I think I have to go with the Kryptonian flatulence theory.</p>
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<p>This PSA was found <strong><a href="http://www.comics.org/issue/8689/">Adventure Comics #160</a></strong> as well as other DC comics from January 1951. Just like last week (and pretty much every Superboy PSA), the script is by Jack Schiff with art by Win Mortimer.</p>
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| Monday, December 21st, 2009 | |
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Scott’s Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar – December 21st
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4324 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4324 Only four days remain until Christmas, and today’s Advent Calendar Countdown Comic Book Cover is another Golden Age funny animal title. This one features hippos, monkeys, snow, and palm trees.
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<img [...] cover,>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4324">http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4324</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4324">http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4324</a></p><p>Only four days remain until Christmas, and today’s <em>Advent Calendar Countdown Comic Book Cover</em> is another Golden Age funny animal title. This one features hippos, monkeys, snow, and palm trees.</p>
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<img src="http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/images/4m.jpg" alt="cover, Funny Picture Stories #4" border="1" width="250" height="348 title="cover, Funny Picture Stories #4"/></a></p>
<div style="font-size: 140%; font-weight: bold;padding-top:7px; font-family: serif; ">Funny Picture Stories #4<span style="font-size: 90%; font-weight: normal; font-family: serif;"> <br />(Centaur, December 1937)</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 210%; color: red;">4 Days until Christmas!</span></center><br />
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<span class="xmas"><a href="http://politedissent.com/tangents/advent09/">This year’s Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar</a> (so far). </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> One year ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/2181">Generation X #4</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Two years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1857">Batman Family #4</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Three years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1505">Fantastic Four #4 (creepy variant cover)</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Four years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/1048">Jingle Belle #4</a></strong>. </span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Five years ago, the cover was <strong><a href="http://politedissent.com/archives/464">Street Fighter #4 (variant cover)</a></strong></span><br />
<span class="xmas"> Don’t miss <strong>Yet Another Comic Blog</strong>’s <a href="http://yetanothercomicsblog.blogspot.com/">annual advent calendar</a></span>
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| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 | |
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| Friday, December 18th, 2009 | |
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Polio Precautions
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4301 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4301 
Polio was once so common that ads were placed in comic books warning against it (this particular ad is from the 1950s). The development of the polio vaccine was seen as an answer to parents’ prayers. Today, we’ve become complacent in large part because few remember how devastating a disease polio was and if we’re not careful, we stand to lose everything we’ve gained against the disease.
See also: pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus (lockjaw), rotavirus (a leading killer of children worldwide), Haemophilus influezae A (especially the pneumonia, epiglottitis, and meningitis), hepatitis A, meningococcal meningitis, hepatitis B (and chronic viral hepatitis and the increased risk of liver cancer), smallpox, chickenpox, influenza, diptheria, measles, mumps, and rubella (especially congenital rubella syndrome). |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | |
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Tuesday PSA: Superboy Talks About “The Holiday Spirit!”
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/4281 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=4281  Since we’re in the middle of the holiday season, I thought this would be a good time for the first of two Superboy holiday-themed public service ads. As it’s Hanukkah now, this PSA is fitting because in addition to Christmas, it also mentions Hanukkah.
 Now before all you “War of Christmas” soldiers get your knickers in a twist and start signing petitions and lighting up torches, bear in mind that this is the only one of three DC holiday PSAs that mentions any holiday other than Christmas (it’s also a 1953 ad, so this “war” of yours has probably been going on since long before you were born).
All the Christmas PSAs carry the same general message: the holidays are about family and charity. This PSA pulls it off the best.
Click on the image for the full ad
This PSA was found Adventure Comics #185 as well as other DC comics from February 1953. Scripting of the PSA was carried out by Saint Nick Jack Schiff with art by Hanukkah Harry Win Mortimer.
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