Asian Avengers TAJ OF THE ELEPHANTS

Probably the first Desi heroine in American comic books...

...this one-shot character (and princess, to boot) appeared in Fiction House's Jungle Comics #57 (1944)

For a "frail girl", she kicks serious a$$!

It's a shame she never got another appearance.

Sadly, both the writer and artist are unknown.

(The records for long-defunct publisher Fiction House are lost to history.)
Note: India is a subcontinent of Asia, so she qualifies as Asian even if she doesn't look stereotypically "Oriental"!

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NOT Who You Think: LADY LUCK II

She's not the slinky costumed heroine created by Will Eisner...

...(although we will be covering her in the future) but a gambler-turned-investigator who made only one appearance...

It feels like a pilot for a 1950s half-hour TV series rather than a comic book, doesn't it?

In fact, the comic could easily be used as storyboards!

Wonder if the writer was a TV scripter doing some comic book work on the side!

Though the scripter is unknown, the artist for this one-shot in Charlton's Danger #13 (1955) is Bill Discount, whose style was remarkably-close to Carmine Infantino's.

In fact, since there were so few stories (only about three dozen) attributed to "Bill Discount", I thought it might be a pen-name for  a team consisting of Carmine and an unknown inker!

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A sci-fi heroine hidden in the back of an issue of Joe Palooka...

...with a rather unique graphic characteristic!
See if you can spot it!

Figure it out?
You probably did since my readers among the most intelligent (and best-looking) people on the 'Net.
But, for the record: The panels are composed so that they form the page numbers!
Kool, eh?
Regrettably, there's no sequel to this never-reprinted in color tale from Harvey's Joe Palooka Comics #15 (1947), written and drawn by noted good-girl (among many things) illustrator Bob Powell.

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AURORA OF JUPITER "Man Who Wanted a World"

To start off this blog, let's go with a heroine nobody remembers...

...from her one and only appearance in the back of the obscure one-shot Captain Rocket #1 (1951)!

We don't know who wrote or drew this story.
The art combines several different styles on different pages so it could've been a rush job with a group effort to meet the deadline.

PL Publishing was an American publisher who printed and distributed their books in Canada.

As a result, very few copies of any of their eight short-lived titles ever reached fans in the US!

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

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