Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH "Doctor Ward's Secret" Part 3

When Last We Left Mary Worth and Mysterious Rich Widow Lisa De Leon...

...the handsome middle-aged widow is now a ravishingly-beautiful young woman!

How did this astounding (for 1944) transformation occur?

Will we see a May-December wedding...though young Michael Jones doesn't know he's going to be in it..as the "May" participant?

Can anybody or anything prevent the nuptials?

And what will Mary Worth say or do about it?

The Juicy Answers to These and Other Questions Will be Found Here, in the Astounding Conclusion...Next Wednesday!
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Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH "Doctor Ward's Secret" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

...Mary Worth has taken in a new boarder, rich widow Lisa De Leon, who is in town so Dr Karen Ward can perform an experimental procedure.

Though Dr Ward is hesitant to do the operation, De Leon's offer to finance a new hospital is too generous to refuse!
As Dr Ward makes preparations, Señora De Leon (who refuses, for reasons unknown, to be seen in public without a heavy veil) travels to a nearby park to try to relieve her anxiety and depression.
But the happy people she sees depress her even more!
However, Fate has a tendency to change the course of someone's life, though it seems improbable...

Wow!
What will Michael Jones say when he finally sees the face of the woman who enthralls him?
Will he and Lisa De Leon become a May-December couple...though he doesn't know it?
And what will Mary Worth say or do about it?
The Answers to These and Other Questions Can be Found Here...Next Wednesday!
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Historical note: Remember, this was the mid-1940s, when cosmetic surgery was still highly-experimental!
Plastic surgery was done almost exclusively to repair war-inflicted wounds and disfigurement.

Rhinoplasty (nose reduction surgery) had become popular from the 1920s on, but extensive cosmetic surgery to reduce the appearance of aging had not yet become the obsession it is today! 

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Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH "Doctor Ward's Secret" Part 1

Though Mary Worth has been published in newspapers continuously from 1938 to the present...

...unlike long-lived comic strip contemporaries, like Dick Tracy and Peanuts, Mary's stories have been reprinted almost haphazardly in paperback and comic book formats by several different publishers!

This tale from 1944, by Ken Ernst & Allen Saunders and combining daily and Sunday strips, is the longest single storyline ever reprinted, and even this reprint hasn't been seen in over a 3/4s of a century!
Let's join the storyline featuring a woman doctor (a rarity in the 1940s), a mysterious wealthy widow, experimental medical procedures, and incredibly-nosy neighbors...

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This story appeared in Magazine Enterprises' one-shot Romantic Picture Novelettes (1946).
Historical note: This was Magazine Enterprises' (best-known for Frank Frazetta's Thun'da, and White Indian as well as the original Ghost Rider) first romance comic.
Their other love comics were Dream Book of Love and Dream Book of Romance.

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Advice d'Amour MARY WORTH featuring TOM KANE

Comics' Best-Known Little Old Lady/Busybody Returns...

...with a never-reprinted compilation from her still-ongoing newspaper comic strip!

Appearing in the Standard Comics one-shot Major Hoople Comics (1943), this 1942 tale by "Dale Allen" (Co-creators writer Allen Saunders and artist Dale Connor) introduced Connie Barclay, who ends up marrying ongoing character Tom Kane, and the two then fade from the series.

Ironically, Dale Connor left the strip shortly after this.
Ken Ernst, the longest-running illustrator on the strip began his run, which would continue until he passed away in 1985.
As we mentioned, the series continues to this day, one of the few to survive from the 1930s to the present without a break!
Check out the current Mary Worth strip HERE! and a cool article about the series (with timeline) HERE!

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