Word: rex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rex Morgan, M.D., a square-jawed general practitioner with an adventurous suburban clientele, has become the most widely known physician in the U.S. without ever stepping out of a comic strip. Since his appearance in 1948, Dr. Rex's struggles with quacks, epidemics and psychoses have made him one of the strips' most cherished favorites.† After a long and successful effort to keep his own identity a secret, Rex's creator and author has now owned up. His name: Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, 42, Toledo psychiatrist...
...Toledo Mental Hygiene Center, he met a local resident named Allen Saunders, who does the continuity for successful comic strips himself (Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Steve Roper). Saunders encouraged Dallis, put him in touch with Chicago's Publishers Syndicate and two artists who do the final drawings. So Rex Morgan, M.D. was born...
...Rex's sure-footed approach to medical problems and the medical education he gives his readers. Among the problems he has dramatized: multiple sclerosis, cancer quacks, tuberculosis, nutrition faddists and euthanasia (TIME...
...practice. Not long ago he received a copy of a medical questionnaire on hypnosis. Psychiatrist Dallis considered his answers carefully, for hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis...
Recently, through his syndicate, Dallis got a letter of protest from a former attendant at the Carville, La. leprosarium. Rex, it seemed, had chided one of his comic-strip friends for treating his girl "like a leper." Result: after Morgan puts Landros behind bars, he will tackle the subject of leprosy, or, as Carville prefers to call it, Hansen's disease...