Dr. Dan Dazzler in “Rumble..!”
I thought it was time for a another visit with Dr. Dazzler*. This story comes courtesy of Ben Casey #3 (Dell, December 1962).
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Discussion questions:
1. Why does Dan Dazzler not want any time off? Is he that lonely?
2. Were all the good gang names already taken?
3. If it’s a puncture wound, how is it large enough that he can tie off the bleeders?
4. Why do the walls keep changing colors? Is everyone on drugs?
5. Is it a ever good idea to leave your wallet and coat lying around in a room surrounded by juvenile delinquents? Explain in a haiku.
*Dr. Dan Dazzler was the four-page back-up comic that ran in Dell’s Ben Casey comic book. Further adventures and information on Dr. Dazzler can be found here.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I like the first panel where Dan is about to “rumble” with that smooth charlie, stethoscope in hand. I half expect them to start dancing in the next panel. I also appreciate how some clumsy gang member managed to break a rather large chunk of what appears to be plaster off the back wall while only knocking the picture slightly eskew. Why are the fighting inside a small suburban home in the first place, are they to good for the stereotypical alley with a wall at one end?
April 16th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Stupid gangmember, bringing a knife to a stethoscope fight…
April 16th, 2007 at 11:14 am
1. Perhaps he’s been wandering the streets for hours waiting for a kid to swallow a coin or something, to no avail, so he goes to the crime scene out of boredom.
2. It was originally the Sharks and the Jets until Dell’s lawyers advised otherwise.
3. Dr. Dan Dazzler has long, delicate fingers.
4. Everyone knows that today’s juvenile delinquents are always smoking marijuana cigarettes and reading comicbooks and other such dangerous behaviours.
5. Leave not your wallet
For the Smooth-Charlies to swipe
Stupid young doctor
April 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Poor Dr. Dazzler – all these plots seem to turn on people refusing to believe he’s a real doctor, because he’s too young. Maybe he should grow a beard, or at least get a moneybelt with some backup ID.
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