FAIRY TALE PARADE "Mermaid"

Is she an unselfish heroine...or a vile, vituperative villainess?

Don't answer until you read the final panel!

If I'm reading the last page correctly, Merla has possessed Princess Rhea's body, either suppressing or destroying the girl's mind!

Wow!

Not what Hans Christian Andersen had in mind!

Scripter Gaylord DuBois rewrote the ending, which had the Mermaid not killing the Prince, then turning into sea foam at dawn, allowing the Prince and Princess to live happily ever after while the Mermaid went to her eternal rest!
This never-reprinted story from Dell's Fairy Tale Parade #7 (1943), illustrated by Arthur E Jameson, is but the first of a long line of rewrites, culminating in the latest adaptation...

Disney's the Little Mermaid

...which strays (in typical Disney fashion) even farther from the original fairy tale, more so than the animated 1989 film which it is based upon!

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Revived from suspended animation after 15,000 years, the warrior named NightGlider discovers Earth of the 1990s is not like the civilization she left behind!

Her language is unknown to the present-day inhabitants of Chicago, which is built over the ancient lost city of Garza where her stasis chamber lay.
And the confusing primitive (to her) transportation technology inadvertently injures her when she impacts a helicopter's rotors and falls forty stories to the ground!
She's transported, unconscious, but alive, to a nearby hospital, where...

To Be Continued at...

HERO HISTORIES

on Monday!

Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics' one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the projected "KirbyVerse" featuring concepts and characters created by Jack (King) Kirby, one of the major creative forces in comics from the birth of the Golden Age in 1940 to the then-present of 1993!.
Glida/NightGlider, with her fellow genetically-enhanced soldiers Bombast and Captain Glory, would battle the evil forces that had also survived the disaster that doomed the Ninth Men 15,000 years earlier and keep them from dominating the humans of the present (aka "Tenth Men") in the Secret City Saga mini-series!

After the end of that series, the group were to continue fighting the good fight in a new mini-series, Victory! along with other, already-existing characters created by Kirby like Silver Star and Captain Victory and the Galaxy Rangers, but it was cancelled after the first issue, with the remaining four parts unpublished to this day!

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Part 1

Placed in suspended animation over 15,000 years ago...

...she is one of a trio of genetically-enhanced soldiers who will save us from the planet-wide destruction that is coming...soon!

To Be Continued...

TOMORROW!

Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the "Secret City Saga".
You can read the previous parts HERE, HERE, and HERE!

WHITE RAVEN "Matter of Justice"

Though she wasn't the first Black superheroine...

...she did earn a place in comics history, which we'll tell you about after her first (and, sadly, only) adventure...

White Raven was, AFAIK, the only non-white superheroine in amateur hero publishing from inception in the early 1960s until the late 1990s.

There's a kool blog post about this project HERE and one about White Raven creator Al Bradford HERE!

The cover, featuring White Raven, along with other characters, is below!

And here's the original art for that cover by the legendary Dick Giordano...

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