Polite Dissent

Know Your Diseases: Swamp Fever

January 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

Swamp Fever

The #3 cause of death in Gotham City swamps (fig. 1).
Initial Symptoms: Chills, mustard yellow skin color (fig. 2).
Incubation Period: 1-7 days
Diagnosis: Best performed by librarians with Princess Leia hairstyles (fig. 3).
Later Symptoms: Weakness and fainting (fig. 4).
Treatment: Bed rest, stylish pajamas, and Chinese Oranges (fig. 5).

Education courtesy of Detective Comics #369 (from Showcase Presents: Batgirl ). Script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Carmine Infantino.

Tags: comics medicine swamp fever batgirl batman

Keith
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 am

Is excessive Cowl-sweat a symptom?
Ben
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 am

I was laughing mostly at the first bar at the graph, but I had to google the last one. Octopussy reference, that?
Scott
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Official Comment

I was going more for the villain in the Swamp Thing movie reference.
Skizelo
January 24th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

Keith, that’s not sweat. Lot of birds in the swamp. Lots of big, Roc-sized birds in the swamp.
Ed
January 25th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Something’s off with the layout of this post; fig. 5 is invisible (seems to be hidden under your blogroll).
Benmast
January 28th, 2008 at 8:22 am

LOL, Solomon Grundy… top swamp related death!

Darn, that’s real clever, Scott. What about Killer Croc?
Jack Hare
November 12th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

I don’t know how the rest of the scene plays out, but if I were faking unconsciousness to get a shot at Batman, I’d double-check pretty thoroughly before believing that he just keeled over for no reason…
isaaaaaaaak
March 14th, 2010 at 7:43 pm

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