M.D. (E.C.)

    (E.C., 1955)
™ and © William M. Gaines, Agent

In an attempt to cope with the requirements of the new Comics Code, EC launched M.D. and other “New Direction” titles mid-1955. Instead of the usual ghouls and gangsters, M.D. concentrated on inspirational stories of doctors and their patients.

Overall, EC did a fine job of keeping these both interesting and true to life. Still, this sense of realism occasionally becomes too much of a good thing. In one story, a doctor tells the father of a girl who had been involved in a car crash, “She has a compound bilateral fracture of the mandible. Her nose is deviated. She’s also suffered a depression of the malar-process of the zygoma in the infra-orbital region…It’s a shame! A girl like that turned into a grotesquery because of a moment’s recklessness!”

Although its readers seemed to regard it quite highly, M.D. vanished along with the other New Direction titles in 1956.
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