Asian Avengers TAJ OF THE ELEPHANTS

Probably the first Desi heroine in American comic books...

...this one-shot character (and princess, to boot) appeared in Fiction House's Jungle Comics #57 (1944)

For a "frail girl", she kicks serious a$$!

It's a shame she never got another appearance.

Sadly, both the writer and artist are unknown.

(The records for long-defunct publisher Fiction House are lost to history.)
Note: India is a subcontinent of Asia, so she qualifies as Asian even if she doesn't look stereotypically "Oriental"!

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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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Heroine Complex

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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's previous appearances all in one volume!)

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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Young Gods and Friends

(Adastra's previous appearances all in one volume!)

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...

Next Week!

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X-Men

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