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The last Judy of the Jungle story in the last issue of Exiting Comics, # 64, 1948.
Art by Ralph Mayo
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The last Judy of the Jungle story in the last issue of Exiting Comics, # 64, 1948.
Art by Ralph Mayo
BC: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #224
The reason i borrowed this issue of WORLD’S FINEST COMICS from my grade school friend Donald Sims should be fairly obvious to anybody who has been reading this page for any length of time: I was enamored of DC’s 100-Page Super-Spectacular format. I loved these big, fat books, a mixture of a new story or two and a selection of classic reprints–often, i wound up liking the reprints more than the…
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Socialite Lauren Mason, could transform into the stars-and-stripes clad heroine Yankee Girl by uttering the magic words Yankee Doodle Dandy! after which she would plunge into super-powered crime fighting. A patriotic version of Mary Marvel, Lauren was perhaps too derivative to stay the course and only featured once, in Dynamic Comics #23. This is a shame as she was illustrated by the excellent Ralph Mayo and her one and only story, The Cat Show Murders, featuring a dastardly plot to dispose of wealthy cat-owning pensioners by turning their pets into lethal poison-carriers thus enabling the baddies to loot their homes after they had expired, was certainly original.
Despite her brief appearance, Lauren was resurrected in the 1990s as part of the FemForce series, where her powers of super strength, flight and probable invulnerability were explained by Lauren being granted these abilities by the wizard Merlin, during World War II, on her pronouncing the magic words. Despite this reboot, Yankee Girl sadly remains something of an obscure Golden Age heroine.
The page featured is from the Yankee Girl story, The Cat Show Murders, published in Dynamic Comics #23 (November 1947). Art by Ralph Mayo. This was her debut/only appearance.
Source: comicbookplus /Yankee Girl Wikipedia page.
Lady Satan by Ralph Mayo
Camilla in Jungle Comics #135 by Ralph Mayo
No use going to a lot of trouble when this way’s more efficient, and... look out!
Johnny Quick & Tubby Watts in World’s Finest Comics (1941) #224
(Don Cameron, Ralph Mayo)
Original Al Williamson / Ralph Mayo art: a page from Jann of the Jungle #16 (Marvel, 1957).
Judy of the Jungle by Ralph Mayo