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If by 'origin' you include the backstory of an established character...

Shaggy was a bit spaced out too.

I'm glad you all liked the WDC&S. Today's offering is MD #3, the last I needed to complete the run, as was the case for the Extra #5 above. I like MD, probably because i have a daughter in paramedicine and we talk about the 1950s treatments. This issue has a couple of stories with pretty questionable medical ethics. This page is from a story about a young man with mental health issues variously described as "reactively depressed" and "manic depressive". I don't know what the DSM said at the time, but these days they would be classed quite differently. In any case the treatment is electroshock therapy (is this a Medical Shock SuspenStory?). Electrodes are placed on the patients temples and four men hold him down while... The attending doctor "accidentally on purpose" leaves the door ajar so the boy's parents - whose constant bickering is blamed for his condition - see what's being done to their son. They later explain to the doctor that they understood that he meant for them "to get shock therapy of their own" by witnessing it and vow to be better parents. Well, that's all right then... There's also a hillbilly story where the "mountain folk" are blithely killing another with quack remedies because "ya can't trust no city doctor folk"... For the record, here are group shots of the two runs.

Uranus to a horse's ...

I wouldn't expect anything above 1.0

How about "detached and completely split cover that punches above its grade"?

OK, let's make this easy on international postage stuff. With much gratitude to MustEatBrains I'll take prize #60 - $100 Paypal. (Which will no doubt return to the US shortly. ) Thank you to all concerned.

Just got in - give me 5 please.

Can I just say I really hate where that image chose to centre?

By the same lame-arse countback method England used to steal a Cricket World Cup from the antipodes. #serialoffenders

Just completed these two New Direction titles. Just a Psychoanalysis #1 short of having all of them now. (All leads welcome.)

Turns out it's really hard to stop at just one. Hopefully there's some kind of program...

My spider-whomper is bigger than your spider-whomper.