CoronaVirus Comics PAT PARKER: WAR NURSE "Disease from the Depths"

Few non-superpowered World War II heroines had as active a career as...

 ...who went through three different incarnations during the conflict!

Introduced in Harvey's Speed Comics #13, British nurse Patricia Parker kicked the butts of spies, saboteurs, and medical black marketers in plainclothes for two issues before donning her costume and identity at the end of this never-reprinted story from Speed #15 (1942).

She was as proficient at Nazi-clobbering in costume as without one.

You'll note Pat didn't need a guy to assist her.

But, as of Speed Comics #23, she teamed up with several women from other countries (China, Russia, and America) to form the Girl Commandos, a distaff version of the multi-national Blackhawks...

...and dropped the "War Nurse" identity for the remainder of her run!
Note: If the art seems a tad un-detailed, even for a Golden Age comic, that's because the book wasn't normal sized (7.75" x 10.5"), but the smaller digest magazine-size (4" x 6.75")!
We just run them at the same size as the regular comics on this blog for your viewing ease!

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils
Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

Medical Women are Truly HEROINES!

Italian comics (or "Fumetti") artist Milo Manara is noted for his beautiful (often nude) women...

...though not in his work for America's PG-13 Marvel Comics!

But these last few weeks, living in an Italy under total lockdown, Manara has started taking a very different approach to portraying women...

Rather than the usual coquettishly-posed, minimally-clad examples of male lust, he's discovered a different appreciation of the female form.

Posting on Facebook, he expresses his gratitude to doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and techs, policewomen, delivery workers and others who perform essential services during the pandemic.

In terms of style, it's still recognizably his work, but now has a far different focus.

Check out his FaceBook gallery HERE.

BONUS: There's a "motion comics" version of this superb illustration...

...HERE!
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X-Women
Manara's only Marvel Comics work (besides covers like the Black Widow one above)!
Scripted by long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont