“My First Date”
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Today is my birthday. According to the Hague Convention for Weblogs and Internet Communications of 2005, everyone who reads this required to buy me a present. However, we all know how hard international treaties are to enforce (and frankly I don’t think the president ever signed it after the Senate ratified it), so I’ll let it pass this year.
Instead, I have a present for you: a story from 1963 that, like a fine wine, has only improved with age. This little gem is titled “My First Date” and is the second story in the first issue of Dr. Tom Brent, Young Intern. Between stories like this and the numerous ads for correspondence nursing schools, it seems clear that the target audience for Charlton’s young doctor comics series of comics were young women. Apparently women who had never gone on a date…
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February 4th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Happy Birthday Dr. Scott.
February 4th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Happy Birthday, Scott. Incidentally, you share it with my mother.
February 4th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
The witty comments that we leave are our presents.
February 5th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Happy birthday doc.
February 5th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Happy Birthday. I actually did buy you a present. But then I remembered I don’t know where to sent it, so I took it back. But I did buy you a present.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am
I got you something, but you’re gonna have to fly to NYC to pick it up.
1) Is this comic for real? Too many bad early-60s cliches for it to be anything other than one of those jokey parody comics. (”Barbie Baker”? “The Spring Hop”? “You’re tops!”? “Real keen”?)
2) Is it just me, or does Barbie look 26?
3) I, for one, am happy that young people back in the day had comic books to teach them the valuable lesson that unattractive men, on occasion, are good dancers and therefore are worth getting to know.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Happy Birthday
Dr. Scott. and incase I’m unavailable next week - HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs.Scott!
February 6th, 2007 at 10:42 am
[…] Happy Birthday Polite Scott! […]
February 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Feliz Cumpleanos! It is also my birthday on the fourth. A good day, that.
February 6th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Apart from the name Jud Mills, I fail to see what’s so awful about her date - he’s at least twice as attractive as Jimmy Olsen. If I thought any males were reading this in the early 1960s, I’d be worried for their self-images.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
A belated happy birthday, Scott. I’m glad I discovered your site.
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