Asian Avengers MARGO THE MAGICIAN

In the Golden Age of Comics, there was only one super-powered Asian/Eurasian heroine...

...and this is her only appearance...ever!

Note the last caption says "Read the next issue of Margo the Magician to find out!"

Sadly, there was never any issue of Margo the Magician!

This "origin" appeared in Quality's Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (1941).
Margo was created by the Eisner/Iger Studio with no record as to who wrote or drew this story.
("Bill Bydem" was a pseudonym!)

The Margo strip was just as good as 99.9% of the other magician-superbeing stories, and she was one of extremely-few female magic-wielders in comics at the time!
Was it her ethnicity that kept her from being continued?
We'll never know.
Unlike almost every other Golden Age character, she has never been revived/rebooted, and this tale has never been reprinted!

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ADASTRA IN AFRICA Act 4

We Have Already Seen...

...banished from her homeworld, alien goddess Adastra returns to a village in Africa she had previously visited, where, due to her superhuman powers to control the weather, she was revered as a goddess.

She discovers the village is suffering a drought and resulting famine.

Just as she is about to act, another being causes rain to fall, but the people believe it is her doing!

She discovers who caused it and how doing so required a sacrifice by him from a shaman...

Life will always find a way...

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ADASTRA IN AFRICA Act 3

When Last We Left the Alien Goddess...

 ...banished from her homeworld, Adastra returns to a village in Africa she had previously visited, where, due to her superhuman powers to control the weather, she was revered as a goddess.

She discovers the village is suffering a drought and the resulting famine.

Just as she is about to act, another being causes rain to fall, but the people believe it is her doing...

To Be Concluded...

NEXT WEEK!

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ADASTRA IN AFRICA Act 2

We Have Already Seen...

...banished from her homeworld, the alien Adastra returns to a village in Africa she had previously visited, where, due to her superhuman powers to control the weather, she was revered as a goddess.
She discovers the village is suffering a drought and the resulting famine...

Problem solved...or is it?

To Be Continued...

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ADASTRA IN AFRICA Act 1

Before she married (and eventually divorced) T'Challa, aka The Black Panther...

...the only major romance in Ororo Munroe aka Storm's life was with Forge in a two-part tale chronicled by writer Chris Claremont and illustrator Barry Windsor-Smith  entitled "LifeDeath"!

Sadly, the third part of the trilogy (and it is a trilogy) wasn't published by Marvel.

Instead, the character was visually-modified into Windsor-Smith's own character, the goddess Adastra from his Young Gods series published by Dark Horse.
However, due to...problems...between Windsor-Smith and Dark Horse, they ended the book's run with #9, before the story could be printed, as planned in the remaining three issues.
Barry offered the project as a one-shot to Fantagraphics, who happily took it and ran with it.

Ambitious!

But if there's anyone who can achieve it, it's Ororo...I mean Adastra!

To Be Continued...

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