Dr Blink Superhero Shrink 1 Dork Storm John Kovalic Christopher Jones 1st print

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Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink #1
From Dork Storm Press

By Dork Tower’s John Kovalic and Justice League Adventures’ Christopher Jones!

What happens when you’re a suicidal superhero . . . but you can’t kill yourself, because you’re invulnerable? And will the Justice Society of America League of Justice Society ever settle on a name? The hilarious bimonthly misadventures of the world’s leading authority on metahuman mental health begin NOW!

Who watches the watchmen’s psychoses? It’s Dr. Blink, psychologist to the superheroes, of course! Part Bob Newhart, part Astro City, it’s the hilarious bimonthly misadventures of the world’s leading authority on metahuman mental health! But can a normal man fix his own life as he’s helping the Earth’s greatest heroes?

Dr. Blink, Superhero Shrink is a comic book written by John Kovalic and drawn by Christopher Jones. The comic is a Parody — essentially a giant Lampshade stuck on a basic fact about superhero comics; the lead characters are almost invariably a giant bundle of psychological issues, if you look at them at all closely. Dr. Frederick Wertham Blink himself is a professional psychiatrist who, after an encounter with his city’s superhero population, wrote a book about their rather obvious issues, Chicken Soup for the Super Soul. This was not only a commercial success, it brought him a string of super-powered patients, turning him into a commercially successful specialist practitioner. Most of the stories are about the cases he treats.

Near mint, 1st print.