AGAR-AGAR "Village in the Sea"

After a slew of Golden Age stories, let's jump 30 years into the Bronze Age...

...as we return to the psychedelic universe of Agar-Agar, the space heroine named after a plant food!

Whoa! 

That's heavy, man.

Pollution is, like, universal, man.

But, like, the Magic of Love can defeat it...

This story from Dracula #2 (1971) was written by Luis Gasca under the pen-name Sadko (which he also used as the scripter on Wolff, another strip in Dracula, illustrated by Estaban Maroto, which we're running in Hero Histories™) and illustrated in a Peter Max-esque style by Alberto Solsona..
It's the second of three that were published in the Warren trade paperback that reprinted the first six issues of this British magazine.
The remaining three stories have been unseen by American audiences, but will be posted here over the next few months.
It'll be a groovy trip, baby!

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VALKYRIE "Conclusion"

When Last We Left Our Anti-Heroine (and Hero)...

Heroic teen aviator AirBoy, who controls the futuristic aircraft "Birdie", encounters the AirMaidens, a team of German aviatrixes who have been shooting down Allied aircraft.

Though he manages to defeat their leader, Valkyrie, in one-on-one combat, he is forced down by superior numbers, and is captured by the Luftwaffe.

Rankled by AirBoy's victory over her, Valkyrie tortures him to learn the secret of controlling his aircraft.

But, some of her squadron, sympathetic to the captive teen's plight, manage to hide AirBoy.

The AirMaidens who betrayed the Nazis are ordered put to death, and Valkyrie, to save her teammates, goes to where AirBoy is hidden...

Valkyrie would return several times during AirBoy's run in Air Fighters Comics and his own title.
When Airboy was revived by Eclipse Comics in the 1980s, Valkyrie assembled a new team of AirMaidens including a new incarnation of Black Angel, and a female version of SkyWolf called La Lupina.
The revival was succesful enough to warrant a pair of Valkyrie mini-series and an Air Maidens one-shot.

While the writer of this Golden Age is unknown, this introductory tale from Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #14 (1943) was illustrated by Fred Kida and Bill Quackenbush.

NOTE: there was a second Nazi aviatrix named Valkyrie during the Golden Age. 
She appeared in the only issue of Spotlight Publishers' TaleSpin (1944) as the nemesis of the one-shot hero FireBird, as detailed HERE!

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NOT Who You Think: VALKYRIE "Part 1"

She's not Marvel's Norse warrior-woman...

...but the first comic character to bear the name "Valkyrie"! During the Golden Age, besides Black Angel, Hillman's Air Fighters Comics featured another aviatrix, but this one was not a heroine, at least initially...

Will Valkyrie rescue her friends?

Will she betray AirBoy to do it?

And, what of Birdie?

Be here next week for the exciting conclusion! 

While the writer is unknown, this introductory tale from Air Fighters Comics #14 was illustrated by Fred Kida and Bill Quackenbush.

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BLACK ANGEL "Return of Baroness Blood"

She's back, the aviatrix in the (drool) skintight leotard...

...along with her leather-clad dominatrix arch-foe and a host of nasty Nazis conducting evil experiments on humans!

Now that's entertainment!

John Cassone illustrated this tale of vengeance deferred in Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #2 (1942)

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PURPLE TIGRESS "Who is The Purple Tigress?"

This week, we indulged in a "purple" theme at our "brother" blog Hero Histories™...

...with entries about the Purple Claw and Purple Zombie, so we decided to carry the theme over here, with the only "purple" heroine we could find...The Purple Tigress!

Like many Golden Age series, this one starts off "mid-stream", implying the title character has been operating for an extended period before this tale from Fox's one-shot anthology All Good Comics (1944).

Her name is a little odd, since there are no feline "purple" tigers.

However, there is an extremely-aggressive beetle called "Purple Tiger".

So, though it's never properly-explained, she's really insect-themed, like The Green Hornet.

Though the art is signed "Betty Brown", it appears to be a pseudonym for currently-unknown creators.

There is one more Purple Tigress story, published three years later, but it offers no more background information about the heroine than this one.

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