Plot
Nurse Pam Massey is transported, car and all, to the distant Purple Planet in outer space, where a mysterious illness threatens to wipe out the Volentian population. The sickness turns out to be whooping cough! Pam agrees to cross to the uninhabited side of the planet to find a cure. She is accompanied by a six-legged dog called Zeta and a Davit, a flying machine controlled by the Volentians.
Notes
- Art: Jon Davis
Appeared
- Pam on the Purple Planet – #55 (10 March 1979) – #66 (26 May 1979)
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Whooping cough? Ah, how these diseases we thought were on retreat can make a comeback.
The artwork for Pam on the purple planet is by Jon Davis my father who is best known for being one of the main artists of Century TV 21
Hi Ethan, thanks for letting me know, he was very versatile, this strip more cartoony then some of his work from TV21 and Lady Penelope that I knew of.
I believe that if you apply some rational thought to the matter, Quiet Storm, it will soon become apparent that the whooping cough in question is a fictional whooping cough, from forty years ago at that, and it isn’t even on Earth. So there’s no point your worrying about it!
Just found this website. A very nice reference — I just read Fran of the Floods and I wanted to look up more comics.
Fran of the Floods, is a great read, I’d also recommend the other Jinty book “Land of No Tears/ The Human Zoo”
DC Thomson don’t have reprinted trades, but there are always old copies on ebay or 30thcenturycomics.