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''[[Rex Morgan, M.D.]]'' is one of three American newspaper soap opera strips created by psychiatrist Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, who later created ''[[Judge Parker]]'' and ''[[
The strip's dedication to realism in its portrayal of medical ailments has led to the strips being distributed in actual hospitals and schools since its inception. Reportedly, readers of the strip were able to accurate diagnose themselves with illnesses shown in the strip as well (and as the internet wouldn't be widely available for at least 40 years after the strip's debut, this was a pretty big deal.) This, combined with the relatively stable environment of the strip's history, has led to it having a wide, stable distribution and it's one of the more recognized soap strips still running today.
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Despite Dallis' intentions with ''Rex Morgan'', he clearly discovered a love for creating comics, and later went on to create two more that had nothing to do with medicine or actual contemporary issues. As such, his role in ''Rex Morgan'' diminished over time as he relied more and more on his assistants to handle the writing duties. Dallis retired from all three of his strips in 1990 (a year before his death), and his longtime assistant Woody Wilson took over the writing duties full time for both ''Rex Morgan'' and ''Judge Parker''. Wilson shifted the format to focus less on medicine and more on drama, hence such shake-ups as the marriage of Rex and June and the later addition of their daughter Sarah.
For the first thirty years, art duties were handled by the team of Marvin Bradley and Frank Edington, who were succeeded briefly by Frank Springer and later famed painter Fernando Da Silva, before settling in with comic book artist Tony
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* [[Bland-Name Product]]: "Pacebook". You can apparently create pages dedicated to internal organs there.
* [[Character Blog]]: Or at least a parody of one. During a plotline about Mayor Dalton's battle with prostate cancer, it is eventually revealed that the Mayor's ''prostate'' has a "Pacebook page" with over 2,000 pals. This led to a fan of [[The Comics Curmudgeon]] creating a real-life Facebook page.
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