Celebrating the heroes on the front lines of care…
Win Mortimer art. (March 1973, Marvel).
By PETER BOSCH
International Nurses Day is celebrated May 12 each year, the date of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nurses are the frontline of every hospital. Most comic book nurses are not super-heroines, but many real-life nurses certainly are.
Here are 13 images in honor of nurses worldwide:
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1. Florence Nightingale
Alice Marble script; Sheldon Moldoff art. From Wonder Woman #1 (Summer 1942, DC).
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2. Mabel K. Staupers
Writer and artist unknown. From Negro Heroes #2 (Summer 1948, Parents’ Magazine Press).
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3. Red Cross Nurses
Bill Everett art. Writer unknown. From True Comics #2 (June 1944, Parents’ Magazine Press).
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4. Diana Prince
William Moulton Marston script; H.G. Peter art. From Sensation Comics #1 (Jan. 1942, DC).
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5. Myra North
Charles Coll art. From Four Color #3 (1939, Dell).
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6. Pat Parker, War Nurse
Unconfirmed script and art. From Speed Comics #26 (Apr. 1943, Harvey).
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7. Bess Lynn (Miss Liberty)
Don Lomax art. From Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe, Vol. XV (May 1986, DC).
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8. Jane Foster
Robert Bernstein script; Stan Lee plot; Joe Sinnott art. From Journey Into Mystery #96 (Sept. 1963, Marvel).
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9. The Nurses
TV cast photo of Zina Bethune and Shirl Conway. From The Nurses #1 (Apr. 1963, Gold Key).
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10. Linda Carter
Siya Oum art. From Night Nurse #1 (July 2015, Marvel).
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11. September 11, 2001: A day like no other for emergency responders
Alex Ross art. From 9-11 Vol. 2 (2002, DC)
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12. Modern-day nurses
Marcio Fiorito and Ian Herring, cover art. From The Vitals: True Nurse Stories #1 (Dec. 2020, Marvel).
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13. An appeal from the Red Cross with a message that is as vital today as it was back in 1942.
Unknown artist. From Speed Comics #17 (Apr. 1942, Harvey).
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13th Dimension contributor-at-large PETER BOSCH’s first book, American TV Comic Books: 1940s-1980s – From the Small Screen to the Printed Page, has just been published by TwoMorrows. He has written articles and conducted celebrity interviews for various magazines and newspapers. Peter lives in Hollywood.
May 12, 2023
On behalf of my wife, ( A retired nurse) and my late Grandmother, Thank You for remembering and caring!