Halloween Heroines ARROW COMICS "Headless Horseman Rides Again"

We've Witnessed the First Adventure of The Headless HorseMAN...

...now read the second (and final) tale of the transvestite crimefighter of the Plains!

Amazing how dense the Sheriff is, eh?

I'm really surprised no B-movie producer or early TV series executive thought of using this concept!
It's relatively low-budget and would've made for an attention-getting gimmick!
Ah, well...
Though this never-reprinted appearance in Centaur's The Arrow Comics #2 (1940) was her last appearance, it wasn't Headless Horseman creator Martin Filchock's last comics work.
In fact, he was just beginning!
When he died in 2012, at the age of 100, he was considered "America's oldest working cartoonist" with credits ranging from comic books to risque mens' magazine to The American Legion Magazine to the Journal of the American Medical Association!

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Halloween Heroines AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES "Headless Horseman"

Why is a character called "Headless Horseman" featured in a blog about heroines?

Yes, there is a logical explanation, so bear with us!

You knew it all along, didn't you?

This character, introduced in this never-reprinted tale from Centaur's Amazing Mystery Funnies #19 (1940) was one of several transvestite heroes/heroines who appeared that year!
There was also the first Cat-Man, who disguised himself as a little old cat lady as shown HERE!
Madam Fatal, who ran for 22 issues of Quality's Crack Comics used a similar gimmick, minus the felines!
Sadly, both The Headless Horseman and Cat-Man I made only 2 appearances each before disappearing into oblivion!
You'll see the Horseman's other (also never-reprinted) adventure here on Thursday!

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KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Who Ever Heard of a Lady Sheriff?"

Besides Fighting Crime, the Ruff Ridin' Gal Sheriff Battles Demeaning Stereotypes...

...by demonstrating prowess equal, if not superior, to any male cow puncher!

Though her final appearance by Bob Powell in Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases #20 (1950) is the shortest of all her tales, it conveys perhaps the biggest message of any of her stories...a woman can do anything a man can!

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KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Hold Up at the Hospital Hoedown"

We Return to the "Present Day" of 1950...

...as city folk and country folk interact in...interesting ways...at a charity event!

This story from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases #19 (1950) seems to indicate that Sheriff Carson's rustic bailiwick, Rimrock, is just a short drive from a "big city".

It's actually not an unusual situation in the Midwest and Southwest, as I discovered when I set up my second home in Illinois.
(I'm a born and bred New Yorker, specifically, Brooklyn.
And it was a bit of culture shock to me to see farms and other rural fixtures so close to Chicago!)

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KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Railroad Rustler!

Though She May Have Lost a Page in Her Story's Length...

...the "Ruff Ridin' Gal Sheriff" Still Kicks Criminal Butt in an Action-Filled Tale!

Kitty handles herself well as any cowboy sheriff would in the sixth Kitty Carson tale from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases...in this case, #17 (1949), illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell.
Note that the series' setting seems to have altered to the Old West, with the railroad only now reaching nearby towns, local ranchers objecting to the "iron hoss", and no indication of modern technology!

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KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "...Outwits the Gentleman Gambler"

 Continuing from Western Comics Aventures...

...it's another never-reprinted tale, though this one does feature a potentially NSFW/NSFS, though benign, ethnic stereotype!

"Ruff-Ridin' " indeed!

This is the third Kitty Carson tale from Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases...in this case, #14 (1949), illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell.

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KITTY CARSON: RUFF RIDIN' GAL SHERIFF "Terror of the West!"

Continuing From Western Comics Adventures...

...here's another never-reprinted tale of this (sadly) time-lost heroine! 

This is the second Kitty Carson tale, illustrated (and likely written) by Bob Powell, which ran in the back of Harvey's Kerry Drake Detective Cases, which, from issues 12-20, consisted of reprints of Drake's newspaper strips, this original strip, and a few one/two-page features.

Note that, while this is a Western, it's set in the then-present (1949), as the clothing and vehicles, including her Jeep, show.
Also, they never showed Kitty avenging her father's murder as the strip begins with her already serving as Sheriff!

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BLACK PHANTOM "Sheriff Satan"

She started out as a villainess, but became a heroine...

...and discovered that it was dangerous to be a masked woman in the Old West no matter what side of the law she was on!

Debuting in the Red Mask strip in Tim Holt #25 (1951) as the leader of a gang of train robbers, she eventually reformed and becoming Red Mask's crime-fighting partner as well as appearing in her own strip.

In fact, Black Phantom was popular enough to be given her own one-shot comic in 1954, from which this story was taken.

You may note that this story, written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by Frank Bolle, has a lot of "panel bursting" effects.

That's because it was done during the heyday of 3-D comics, but publisher Magazine Enterprises didn't want to pay the license for the red/blue 3-D effect used by numerous other comic companies, so they had their artists do a pseudo "three-dimensional" effect by extending art elements outside panel borders, then promoted it as "3-D in Full Color".

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