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“The Making Of A Nurse!”
It’s been a long stress-filled school year in one of Manhattan’s prominent hospitals. Three nursing students, coming from very different backgrounds, had to learn to work and live together. Linda Carter, Georgia Jenkins, and Christine Palmer have made it to the end of their residency, but will the social pressures of being a woman in 1972 prevent them from graduating? Welcome to Metro General Hospital!
Linda Carter is continuously hassled by her parents to get married – like any self respecting woman should do. Georgia Jenkins comes from a rough area of the city. Her worries stem from a poor family life and a gangbanger brother hustling in the Bronx. And last but not least, Christine’s father has disowned her all together. No woman will work under his watch!
Will Linda, Georgia, and Christine pass their finals and become full time night nurses at Metro General Hospital? Can Linda Carter convince the hospital’s biggest donor, Marshal Michaels, to fund a new wing of hospital rooms? Have a group of riled street thugs smuggled enough dynamite into the hospital to blow up the emergency generator room? Collect the series to find out!
Reviewer Notes
First there was Linda Carter, Student Nurse. Then Marvel gave us Linda Carter, Night Nurse! What was in the mind of San Lee? To me, this series seems to have spawned from the previous decade of niche nurse centric comics and the oversaturated romance market. Night Nurse starts off as a hybrid of both genres.
For some reason, in Linda Carter Student Nurse, Linda was a brunette. Eleven years later, Stan decided to bleach Linda’s hair and turn her blonde. The marketing data must have proven they have more fun? Who knows for certain.
Night Nurse issue one starts off in montage mode. Writer, Jean Thomas, gives us a short history of Linda, Georgia, and Christine getting accepted into nursing school, moving away from home, and then three years of studying full-time. Again, from my brief research on the “Linda Carter Student Nurse” run, the beginning of issue one is a brief retelling of those years.
We end issue one with a city wide Black-out and a street gang takeover of Metro General Hospital. Go figure. It’s all in good fun though. After my second reading of this book, my 5 stars review stands. If you can find a copy I would definitely get it.
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