NOT Who You Think: VALKYRIE "Part 1"

She's not Marvel's Norse warrior-woman...

...but the first comic character to bear the name "Valkyrie"! During the Golden Age, besides Black Angel, Hillman's Air Fighters Comics featured another aviatrix, but this one was not a heroine, at least initially...

Will Valkyrie rescue her friends?

Will she betray AirBoy to do it?

And, what of Birdie?

Be here next week for the exciting conclusion! 

While the writer is unknown, this introductory tale from Air Fighters Comics #14 was illustrated by Fred Kida and Bill Quackenbush.

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BLACK ANGEL "Return of Baroness Blood"

She's back, the aviatrix in the (drool) skintight leotard...

...along with her leather-clad dominatrix arch-foe and a host of nasty Nazis conducting evil experiments on humans!

Now that's entertainment!

John Cassone illustrated this tale of vengeance deferred in Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #2 (1942)

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

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PURPLE TIGRESS "Who is The Purple Tigress?"

This week, we indulged in a "purple" theme at our "brother" blog Hero Histories™...

...with entries about the Purple Claw and Purple Zombie, so we decided to carry the theme over here, with the only "purple" heroine we could find...The Purple Tigress!

Like many Golden Age series, this one starts off "mid-stream", implying the title character has been operating for an extended period before this tale from Fox's one-shot anthology All Good Comics (1944).

Her name is a little odd, since there are no feline "purple" tigers.

However, there is an extremely-aggressive beetle called "Purple Tiger".

So, though it's never properly-explained, she's really insect-themed, like The Green Hornet.

Though the art is signed "Betty Brown", it appears to be a pseudonym for currently-unknown creators.

There is one more Purple Tigress story, published three years later, but it offers no more background information about the heroine than this one.

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

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LADY SATAN II "Macabre Beginning"

With the success of Warren Publications' Vampirella, in the early 1970s...

...it was inevitable that another barely-clad anti-heroine would appear in a b/w comic magazine, where the Comics Code didn't apply!

But, this one was demonic, not vampiric...

This is definitely not the Golden Age Lady Satan!

From her first appearance in Skywald's Scream Magazine #2 (1973), the never-reprinted (and never-completed) saga of Satan's betrothed pushed the boundaries of both good taste and coherent storytelling.

Created by writer Al Hewetson and artist Ricardo Villamonte, Anne Jackson also made comics history as the first Black anti-heroine!

BTW, Skywald was also responsible for comics' first Black superheroine, ButterFly two years earlier, as detailed HERE.

Lady Satan (II) would make three more appearances in Scream and Psycho magazines before disappearing without a proper conclusion to the storyline.

Watch this blog for her later appearances...

SORCERESS OF ZOOM "Invasion of Bango & Zoda"

Here's the first Golden Age anti-heroine...

...who both helped and hindered mankind as the whim struck her!

And, she had a real knack for creating zombie slaves, as you'll see in this tale from Weird Comics #2 (1940)!

While this particular story has a timeless, "fairy-tale" feel to it, later chapters were firmly set in the then-present of the 1940s.

Credited to the nom-de-plume "Sandra Swift",  this tale was illustrated by Louis Cazeneuve, who co-created Timely's Red Raven and produced almost 300 stories and covers in almost every genre during his ten years (1939-49) in the comics field.

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