CoronaVirus Comics MADAM ZERO "Rockets of the Red Mist"

Some Reich-wingers like Jerry Falwell Jr postulated North Korea and Red China created the CoronaVirus!

Perhaps Falwell was inspired by this forgotten  heroine's never-reprinted final tale from Fiction House's Fight Comics #84 (1952)!

Anonymous Commie-buster Madam Zero made only three appearances in her short-lived career!

A mistress of disguise, she always surprised the (also anonymous) secret agent who narrated these stories and who played the helpless "Steve Trevor" to her plain-clothes "Wonder Woman"!

Nothing is known about her real identity, motivations, or even which department she worked for!

Note: This is part of an on-going series throughout the entire RetroBlog line featuring disease/epidemic/pandemic tales!

Check out the other RetroBlogs on the left of this page for more such stories!

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Marvel's Black Widow

Secrets of a Super-Spy

The Forgotten 1970s Black SuperHeroine!

After 1971's The ButterFly...

...and 1975's Storm...

...there was...

SUPERBITCH!

The Black superheroine who's x-rated adventures were so hot we can't run them here!

But we can re-present her tale at our "brother" RetroBlog...

Not Safe for Work Comics!

Dare You Miss this "Lost" Piece of Black Americana?

CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE "Jim Lee Catwoman Sketchbook"

Jim Lee, who in 2004 had just illustrated the best-selling Batman: Hush, did the cover for the Catwoman movie adaptation...

...and here's the story of how he went on-set to create it!

Wow!

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CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Conclusion

We Last We Left Our Heroine...

...framed for the murder of cosmetics magnate George Hedare (actually committed by his wife, Laurel), Patience Phillips aka Catwoman is arrested by her lover, Detective Tom Lone (who knows her secret identity)...

To say this flick was almost universally-panned would be charitable.

To be fair, Halle Berry did her best with what she was given.

And, to her credit, she took the criticism in stride, even accepting the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in person...

Trivia:
Until 2017's Wonder Woman, Catwoman was the highest-grossing superheroine movie of all time!
The film was going to be released in IMAX...

...but the SFX couldn't be completed in time!
Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!
Why did we present this particular flick as our Black History Month month entry?
1) Catwoman was the first flick to feature a Black superheroine in the title role!
Note: both BlankMan and Meteor Man predated it as Black superhero flicks.
But BlankMan didn't have a comic book adaptation, and Meteor Man had both a movie adaptation and a six-issue sequel series which set it in the Marvel Universe!
We'll be doing Meteor Man next year as a RetroBlog crossover event between Hero Histories, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video and Atomic Kommie Comics!
2) Catwoman starred Halle Berry! 'Nuff said!
Speaking of Halle...tomorrow we'll post a text feature by cover artist Jim Lee about how he was able to get her to pose, in costume, for him!

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CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Part 2

When Last We Left Our Feline Femme Fatale...

Meek (dare we say "mousey"?) graphic artist Patience Phillips, ordered to meet a midnight deadline by her abusive boss, George Hedare, arrives and discovers the doors locked!

Gaining access through a window, she accidentally-eavesdrops on the chemists working on her company's new makeup line...which has frightening side-effects on users!

The scientists, not realizing she's an innocent employee who inadvertently-overheard them, call security officers, who pursue and shoot the panicked woman, who then falls from a height that (combined with her gunshot wound) would kill a normal person...and does!

But, her corpse is surrounded by a group of cats...who apparently restore her to life!

MEOW!

To Be Continued Tomorrow at...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!

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