Monday PSA: Let Science Serve You!

April 21st, 2008

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

Let Science Serve You! Click for the full page.

A different look for today’s PSA: it’s not your standard story-with-a-moral, but instead a quick, almost cartoony, look at scientific discoveries and the technologies that result from it. It also ends on a medical note, and I’m all for that, so remember: “Take advantage of the latest in science — get a regular physical exam and immunization against polio, tetanus, and other diseases.”

Of course, the “regular physical exam” hasn’t really changed in the past twenty or thirty years, so it’s hardly cutting edge science, but I guess it’s the thought that counts.

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Despite the change in style, the Grand Comic Database still cerdits Jack Schiff, DC’s prolific PSA writer, with the script. The art is thought to be by either Morris Waldinger or Tommy Nicolosi. This PSA appeared in the February 1962 issues of DC comics.

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8 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Let Science Serve You! ”

  1. Laura
    April 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 am

    The scientists in the first panel look like women wearing tailored suits. I don’t suppose I can rely on that having been a subtle gesture of support for women’s rights, though.

  2. Keith
    April 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 am

    One of the scientists’ biggest discoveries was, apparently, white rats as large as house cats. It’s a pity that so few students today are interested in Zoogigantology…

  3. mike.
    April 22nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    I love this art style. There definitely need to be more books and cartoons (or even title sequences) utilizing it.

  4. Sarah
    April 22nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Actually this style reminds me (a little) of the web comic ‘ve been drawing recently, only, y’know, more science-y.

  5. Mr J
    April 30th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    I have these images along with another of a rocket ship as the revolving header image on my website for my science class at http://www.mrjworld.com

  6. Juisarian
    May 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am

    Bonus points for computers beating each other with sticks.

  7. Sable Hope
    May 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 am

    I like the giant Seamonkey/frogman-in-loincloth, about to spear the boat. Faster Seamonkey! Kill! Kill!

  8. gisel
    November 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Tom Nicolosi was my father. I was not yet born in 1962. The style does not look like what I knew of my dad but it could have been different in 1962.

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