Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Please Stop My Funeral!"

Ever hear the phrase "She'd be late for her own funeral"?

In the following cover-featured (by Curt Swan and Neal Adams) tale from DC's Adventure Comics #383 (1969), the Girl of Steel is about to, ironically, live it!

Ok, it's a tad convoluted and contrived, but this never-reprinted tale by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Win Mortimer, and inker Murphy Anderson is the very embodiment of DC's Silver Age output!

It's an impossible situation, yet she easily gets out of it!

Wotta gal!

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Volume 2

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Supergirl's Greatest Failure!"

Since the idea of summer camp is pretty much kaput for this year...

...we thought it only fair to show you how it used to be...if you were a super-heroine!

Scripted by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger, this never-reprinted tale from DC's Adventure Comics #384 (1969) was typical DC Silver Age fluff.

In 1969, the Supergirl strip moved from the back of Action Comics to take over Adventure Comics (forcing the Legion of Super-Heroes from book-length tales in Adventure into short stories in the back of Action!)

The intention was to give the Girl of Steel book-length adventures, but after only two issues, the title adopted a two-tale per issue format.

Considering how many of those shorts were two-parters which could easily have been full-length stories, the decision seems a bit odd...

Despite the success of the CW TV series about the Maid of Might, DC has never reprinted almost any of this series from #381 to #424, so we're going to correct that with not one but two summer blogathons both here (where we'll present the weirdest stories) and True Love Comics Tales, where we'll show you some of her (rather kinky) romances!

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CoronaVirus Comics PIONEER WEST ROMANCES "FireHair in Fatal Fever"

Despite the title, Fiction House's Pioneer West Romances wasn't a love comic...

...it was about a woman warrior kicking butt in the Old West!

Young Lynn Cabot, nicknamed Princess Smith by her father, a wealthy Boston businessman killed by outlaws posing as Native Americans, was found by Little Ax, son of Chief Tehama of the Dakota tribe and adopted into the chief's family.

Given the name FireHair, she became an expert archer, knife thrower, horsewoman, canoe rower, and hand-to-hand fighter as she got older.

The now-adult woman protected the Natives from anyone who dared to try and exploit or hurt them, as this never reprinted tale of fever and fractured fantasies from Fiction House's Pioneer West Romances #6 (1950), written by John Mitchell (as "John Starr"), penciled by Bob Webb and inked by David Heames, aptly-proves!

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From Pulps to Panels, from Jungles to Space

CoronaVirus Comics NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL "Jungle Fever Fury! Chapter Three: Dance of Death!"

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

...when Nyoka tries to put an end to the awful death toll claimed by the most horrendous enemy of the Jungle People, swamp fever...her life hangs in the balance as she battles twin terrors...disease and ignorance!

(BTW, you haven't missed a chapter!

The second part of this post appeared on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!)

Though the long-running comic was based on the two Republic Studios movie serials Jungle Girl and Perils of Nyoka, those were based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, Jungle Girl aka Land of Hidden Men...

...which took place in Cambodia and featured an Asian heroine!

All the studio took was the title and Burroughs' name.

The rest was totally-new!

The novel itself has never been adapted into live-action or animated form, or even a comic book, though there is an internet comic strip at the official Edgar Rice Burroughs website!

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Perils of Nyoka

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CoronaVirus Comics NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL "Jungle Fever Fury! Chapter One: Burning Revenge!"

Since it was based on a movie serial character...

...the Nyoka comic book followed the multi-chapter cliffhanger format, which is rather convenient for our purposes!

Actually, the next chapter will appear on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video over the weekend, with the final chapter returning here next week!

You'll note that the African natives, unlike most jungle comics of the era, aren't portrayed in overly-racist stereotypes.

Also: unlike most of the jungle heroines of the era, Nyoka isn't garbed in a tight animal skin, but safari jacket and shorts!

Despite that, her book lasted longer than most, first at Fawcett from 1945 until 1953, then at Charlton until 1957!

Their dialogue and imagery is no worse than most examples of American Indians from Westerns in the same era!

Sadly, none of the creatives from this never reprinted story from Fawcett's Nyoka the Jungle Girl #54 (1951) can be definitively-identified!

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Jungle Girl

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Perils of Nyoka

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