Dr. Dan Dazzler in “One Heartbeat from Death”
Sadly, this marks the last adventure I have of Dr. Dan Dazzler, everyone’s favorite intern (or at least the last back-up story from Ben Casey — for all I know he might have been a space filler in other comics as well). This story comes courtesy of Ben Casey #4 (Dell Comics, February 1963)
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Discussion questions:
1. Bad things always seem to happen around Dr. Dazzler. Could that be why he doesn’t have any friends?
2. Even if Dr. Dazzler does talk in his sleep, why was Dr. Jay close enough to hear?
3. Do you really think that making an unconscious person swallow a salt solution is a good idea? And doesn’t the guy bringing the solution look like Igor?
4. It’s nice that Dr. Dazzler is trying not to contaminate the wound by using a clean sheet, but it would probably be better if wore gloves, or at least washed his hands first.
5. Just how long is that ambulance?
*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.
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:37 am
“3. Do you really think that making an unconscious person swallow a salt solution is a good idea? And doesn’t the guy bringing the solution look like Igor?”
Either that or The Gremlin from Hulk #1!
Also seeing the doctor smoking a pipe, IN the hospital near some equipment made me laugh. Then I remembered the gaggle of folks in scrubs and white coats standing around grabbing smokes oustside the Munson Medical Center and it wasn’t so funny. THEN I rememberd the 300#, chain-smoking cardiac(male)nurse I had a chat with once and it was even less funny.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:20 am
What exactly is a 1/2 inch piece of lumber going to do to insulate the young interne from grounding several thousand volts of electricity? He’d have been better off trying to remove the insulated wire than moving the person.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Interne?
July 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Bystander: Don’t you think we should wait for a doctor?
Dr. Dare: I’M a doctor! What do you think I’m wearing, pajamas?
July 6th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Oops. Dr. Dazzler, that is. I get my alliterative internes confused.
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