is an American soap opera comic strip, created May 10, 1948 by psychiatrist Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis under the pseudonym Dal Curtis.

[1] The name for the strip was inspired by the real life Rex S. Morgan Sr., the U.S. Army's "chief mortician" and a popular Philadelphia TV personality in the 1960s.

The story centers on Dr. Rex Morgan, who in 1948 moves to the fictional small town of Glenwood to take over a late friend's practice.

Helping him grapple with a dizzying array of medical problems is his old friend's office manager and nurse, June Gale.

The strip has long been praised for its blunt tackling of social issues and taboo subjects, such as drug abuse, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, diabetes, organ transplants, adoption and sexual harassment[citation needed].

The story's constant realism about these issues has led groups such as the Leahy Foundation to use Rex Morgan as a teaching tool[citation needed].

[citation needed] In 1950, the Newark News refused to run one series in which a nurse tried to euthanize her sick father.

For instance, a continuity from 1970 depicted the plight of an attractive young woman who frequently experienced gaps of "missing time": Morgan diagnosed her as suffering from petit mal.

Beginning in 2016, artist-writer Terry Beatty often put Rex back in medical settings, either at his clinic or in the hospital.

Beatty also had Morgan tackle pseudoscience in the form of a scam perpetrated by recurring con artist René Belluso, as discussed in a 2019 interview in Skeptical Inquirer.