With the Tokyo Olympics well under way (a year late)...
...we offer up this Golden Age tale of the one and only...
Phantom Lady
...participating to stop a criminal plot, while proving herself the equal of any male athlete!
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to read it!
Tales, histories, and commentary on fantastic females with and without superpowers
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Friday, June 11, 2021
Asian Avengers LADY SHIVA: HEROINE OR VILLAINESS?
Our "bother" RetroBlog Pop Art Martial Arts presented the premiere of...
....Lady Shiva, created by Richard Dragon co-creator/writer Denny O'Neil, penciler Ric Estrada and inker Wally Wood, who's had a rather checkered career in the DC Multiverse, including several, quite different movie/TV incarnations!
Depending on the situation/plotline and specifics of the given incarnation (DC's been rather loose with continuity since Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1984.), she's been a heroine, training and fighting side by side with numerous heroes and heroines...or she's trying to kill them!
Check it out
HERE!
HERE!
Monday, May 17, 2021
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"!
Note: India is a subcontinent of Asia, so she qualifies as Asian even if she doesn't look stereotypically "Oriental"!
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Monday, May 10, 2021
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!)
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!
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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Monday, February 22, 2021
ADASTRA IN AFRICA Act 4
...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!)
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