The Good Old Days

August 5th, 2009

Filed under: Comics, Medicine

scene from The Demon #13

Useful bits of medical knowledge I’ve gleaned from Jack Kirby:

kirbyThere was once a time when a doctor could start a raging fire — and nobody considered it out of the ordinary.

kirbyMedicines used to be really, really dangerous.

Scene from The Demon #13, written and penciled by the aforementioned Jack Kirby, where the doctor is question is Baron Von Evilstein — and really, with a name like that, your life’s plan is pretty much already laid out for you.

7 Responses to “ The Good Old Days ”

  1. arkonbey
    August 5th, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Must have been mixing some of those nitroglycerin pills…

  2. Bytowner
    August 5th, 2009 at 8:47 am

    So…this part of this particular story was happening in Gotham-Blüdhaven?

  3. Felicity
    August 5th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    Also: cops have five-foot-long arms.

  4. Mr. B
    August 5th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Five foot long arms! Maybe that is where we get the term, the “long arm of the law”.

    I would’ve of ticketed the driver. Something fishy going on. The rear view mirror is not attached. Moments later, it is on the windshield.

  5. Dean
    August 5th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Everything in a Kirby comic is dangerous.

  6. FlowerPower
    August 6th, 2009 at 7:25 am

    The cop just didn’t want to tell them there was a meth lab in the neighborhood. Bad for property values.

  7. Chuk
    August 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    That first panel makes it look like the car either has no roof, or has a five foot high windsheild.

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