Halloween Heroine PHANTOM LADY "Army of the Walking Dead!"

For the Halloween season we offer...Matt Baker "good girl" art!  Zombies! Doctor Crime!

The splash page of the story is the inside cover of the comic, with only two colors, black and cyan.

Oh, did we mention ZOMBIES???

Enjoy...

"America comes first, even before Dad!"--Phantom Lady's Words to Live By!

Doctor Crime (not to be confused with The Crime Doctor), despite being the first supervillain the Fox incarnation of Phantom Lady fought, never returned.

When this Ruth Roche-scripted and Matt Baker-illustrated tale from Fox's Phantom Lady #15 (1947) was reprinted as the cover feature in IW/Super Comic's Great Action Comics #8 (1958), the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover and inside cover printing plates, only the interiors for this issue!

As a result, the editor retitled the story "The Zombie".

The new cover was a combination of two redrawn story panels and a badly-rendered (and mis-colored) Phantom Lady.

The cover art is by Carl (Golden Age Human Torch) Burgos.

Halloween Heroine GHOST WOMAN "and the Plague of Werewolves!"

She returned from the dead to save her husband from lycanthropes...

...in her one and only appearance from Cambridge House's Star-Studded Comics #1 (1945)

If this series continued, we probably would have learned more about Ghost Woman's abilities and limitations, and her husband John would come to the realization that she was serving as his "guardian angel".
Unfortunately, publisher Cambridge House published only one issue each of three different anthologies featuring a number of interesting series, and then abruptly went out of business!

None of the strips packaged* by the Bernard Baily Studio were picked up by other publishers.

Personally, I'm surprised something similar to Ghost Woman hasn't come along since 1945!

Considering the ongoing popularity of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight Saga, a concept like Ghost Woman seems like a sure hit!

Trivia: Editor/art director Bernard Baily, was the co-creator (with writer Jerry [Superman] Siegel) of comics' most famous ghostly avenger, DC's The Spectre, who wore a similar hood to Ghost Woman!

Unlike Ghost Woman, The Spectre continues to fight evil from beyond the grave, even appearing recently in a direct-to-video anime, voiced by Gary Cole...

*It wasn't unusual for a publisher to hire an independent studio to write and illustrate the contents for a given title, or, if it was a small publisher, the entire line of books!

Golden Age SuperHeroine at the 1948 Olympics!

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!

Click

HERE

to read it!

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!

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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