BARBIE "Flying Hero Barbie in 'Catch the Courage' "

There've been Barbie figures based on various DC and Marvel heroines...

...but did you know there was a unique super-heroine Barbie...with her own team of heroines as well?

I'm afraid we won't see Flying Hero Barbie in comics again (except in the other story in this particular comic), since, sadly, this was the final issue of the Marvel/Star series (#63 in 1995)!

Written by Barbara Slate and illustrated by Mary Wilshire, this never-reprinted tale was part of the promotional push for a then-new line of Barbie dolls...

Interesting that the doll was "Flying Hero", not "Flying Heroine"...
Even though the Flying Heroes aren't in the new movie...

...if you're a fan, go see it this weekend!
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Flying Hero Barbie
and her friends

Kira

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Teresa

FAIRY TALE PARADE "Mermaid"

Is she an unselfish heroine...or a vile, vituperative villainess?

Don't answer until you read the final panel!

If I'm reading the last page correctly, Merla has possessed Princess Rhea's body, either suppressing or destroying the girl's mind!

Wow!

Not what Hans Christian Andersen had in mind!

Scripter Gaylord DuBois rewrote the ending, which had the Mermaid not killing the Prince, then turning into sea foam at dawn, allowing the Prince and Princess to live happily ever after while the Mermaid went to her eternal rest!
This never-reprinted story from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #7 (1943), illustrated by Arthur E Jameson, is but the first of a long line of rewrites, culminating in the latest adaptation...

Disney's the Little Mermaid

...which strays (in typical Disney fashion) even farther from the original fairy tale, more so than the animated 1989 film which it is based upon!

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Revived from suspended animation after 15,000 years, the warrior named NightGlider discovers Earth of the 1990s is not like the civilization she left behind!

Her language is unknown to the present-day inhabitants of Chicago, which is built over the ancient lost city of Garza where her stasis chamber lay.
And the confusing primitive (to her) transportation technology inadvertently injures her when she impacts a helicopter's rotors and falls forty stories to the ground!
She's transported, unconscious, but alive, to a nearby hospital, where...

To Be Continued at...

HERO HISTORIES

on Monday!

Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics' one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the projected "KirbyVerse" featuring concepts and characters created by Jack (King) Kirby, one of the major creative forces in comics from the birth of the Golden Age in 1940 to the then-present of 1993!.
Glida/NightGlider, with her fellow genetically-enhanced soldiers Bombast and Captain Glory, would battle the evil forces that had also survived the disaster that doomed the Ninth Men 15,000 years earlier and keep them from dominating the humans of the present (aka "Tenth Men") in the Secret City Saga mini-series!

After the end of that series, the group were to continue fighting the good fight in a new mini-series, Victory! along with other, already-existing characters created by Kirby like Silver Star and Captain Victory and the Galaxy Rangers, but it was cancelled after the first issue, with the remaining four parts unpublished to this day!

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Part 1

Placed in suspended animation over 15,000 years ago...

...she is one of a trio of genetically-enhanced soldiers who will save us from the planet-wide destruction that is coming...soon!

To Be Continued...

TOMORROW!

Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the "Secret City Saga".
You can read the previous parts HERE, HERE, and HERE!