J. Jonah Jameson — Pulse of Steel
April 4th, 2008
Filed under: Medicine
panels from Amazing Spider-Man #544 (Bob Gale/Phil Jimenez)
Isn’t it amazing how — despite Spider-Man angering J. Jonah Jameson enough to skyrocket his blood pressure by fifty points — his pulse remains perfectly stable, even when he’s flatlining.
(And Spider-Man, FYI, when you yell to the staff that JJJ is having a heart attack, he actually seems to be having a cardiac arrest, a different condition entirely. To your credit, you tried rescue breathing, but chest compressions would have been better choice. On the other hand, full credit to Phil Jimenez for drawing a good nasal canula.)
April 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Another major medical error in the Gale issues is several characters using “stroke” and “heart attack” interchangably
April 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
That’s just artist laziness showing. He didn’t want to have to redraw the monitor each time, so it’s likely copied and dropped - notice the EKG trace doesn’t change either.
April 10th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Don’t most people routinely confuse cardiac arrests and heart attacks all the time, making this okay in context as long as a doctor doesn’t say it?
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