LUCKY DALE: GIRL DETECTIVE "Hot Case, Cold Close"

Policewomen operate in any environment...

...no matter how hot or cold!

Lucky was one of a number of policewomen and private detectives who appeared in their own strips during the Golden Age.

(We've run others like Dolly O'Dare HERE. and Lady Luck II HERE.) You'll note the reporter's name in this never-reprinted tale from Avon's The Saint #5 (1949) is "Jim Gordon"...the same as Commissioner Gordon of Batman fame!

I'm not sure when Commissioner Gordon's first name was revealed in the comics, so this may have been a case of coincidence.

Both the writer and artist are unidentified in the Grand Comics Database.

DOLLY O'DARE "Castle of the Talking Corpse"

Though arch-nemesis Baron Blue managed to eleude capture...

Art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito

...policewoman Dolly O'Dare is hot on his trail!

Written and illustrated by Jim Wilcox in Chesler's Scoop Comics #8 (1944)!

Baron Blue did return, and O'Dare dealt with him.
We'll be bringing you that story soon!

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MOON GIRL "Sky Sabotage"

She wore a red/yellow outfit with blue shorts and could bring down an airplane with her bare hands...

But she wasn't Wonder Woman!

She was the short-lived Golden Age superheroine, Moon Girl!

Written by William Wolfolk and illustrated by Sheldon Moldoff, this tale appeared in EC's never-reprinted Moon Girl #3 (1948).

If there seem to be obvious elements of Wonder Woman in Moon Girl, perhaps it's because Wolfolk's wife, Dorothy was a writer/editor on, among others, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, Supergirl, and romance titles at DC Comics!

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MOON GIRL "Rockets for Riches"

A super-powered princess in red/yellow/blue who constantly rescues her heroic boyfriend...

...nope, it ain't Wonder Woman, bunkie!

We previously-presented her origin tale HERE, so today we're going a little further in her history to present her arch-enemy, Satana in this never-reprinted tale from EC's Moon Girl #3 (1948)!

Written by William Wolfolk and illustrated by Sheldon Moldoff.

If there seem to be obvious elements of Wonder Woman in Moon Girl, perhaps it's because Wollfolk's wife, Dorothy was a writer/editor on, among others, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, Supergirl, and romance titles at DC Comics!

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VAMPIRELLA "Origin" 2.5

We previously brought you the revised origin of Vampirella...

Art by Ken Kelly

...now here's the re-revised origin, using the art previously-published in color, but now in it's originally-intended b/w form!

This rewritten version of Vampi's revised origin appeared in Warren's Vampirella #46 (1975), just three years after it's first appearance (in color) in Vampirella Annual #1 (1972).

Rewritten by Budd Lewis, but using the previously-produced art by Vampi's signature artist Jose Gonzalez, this was a retelling of the girl from Drakulon's origin first told by writer Forrest J Ackerman and artist Tom Sutton in the magazine's premiere issue in 1969.

(And you thought Marvel and DC rebooted their continuities quickly!).
This version was reprinted by Harris Comics when they had the rights to the character, but Harris totally-redid the origin story, eliminating the extra-terrestrial aspect.
The recent revival by Dynamite Entertainment, follows the Harris Comics version of the character.
Dynamite is also reprinting the Warren series in trade paperback form.

Be here next week, when we present another tale of classic comic grrl power!

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