Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Dr. Kildare</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-10-09
name: label: graphic artist
content: Bald, Ken
label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Dr. Kildare</i> comic strip shows Blanco visiting the hospital operating room where his curiosity about a surgery in process prompts the title character to ask if Blanco would ever consider becoming a doctor.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Kenneth Bruce Bald (1920- ) started his career as an artist at Jack Binder’s New York studios drawing features for Fawcett comic books. After his service in World War II, Bald continued working on comic books and eventually transitioned to comic strips, beginning with <i>Judd Saxon</i> in 1957 and <i>Dr. Kildare</i> in 1962, which he drew until his retirement in 1984. In addition, throughout the early 1970s, Bald drew a comic strip version of the popular television show <i>Dark Shadows,</i> for which he used his pseudonym “K. Bruce.”
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Dr. Kildare</i> (1962-1983) was a comic strip based on the popular film, radio, television, and comic book character James Kildare. The title character first appeared in the 1937 film <i>Internes Can’t Take Money,</i> starring Joel McCrea. Early storylines featured Dr. Kildare as a medical intern being mentored by an older physician named Dr. Leonard Gillespie. In 1961 the film was adapted into a television series, which was in turn adapted into a newspaper strip.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22565
label: catalog number
content: 22565
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.2 cm x 58.6 cm; 16 1/4 in x 23 1/16 in