#thrilling comics

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(1948)

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"In the jungle, the mighty jungle...the lion sleeps tonight!"

Thrilling Comics by Alex Schomburg

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THRILLING COMICS (vol. 1) #19 (August, 1941). Cover by Alex Schomburg.

"Doc" Strange was originally called "Doctor Strange" in his first ten appearances in Thrilling Comics. The name was shortened to "Doc" to play on the popularity of the pulp hero, Doc Savage.

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Princess Pantha - art by Alex Schomburg (1948)

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Justice Society Returns! 7 Issue Lot (1999) by DC Comics

Written and drawn by various, covers by Dave Johnson.

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The Woman In Red was one of the first Golden Age comic book crime fighting heroines and prefigured all her masked successors, setting the template for Lady Luck, Phantom Lady and Black Cat. In real life, The Woman was police officer Peggy Allen, who chafed under the bureaucratic requirements of her job and the wider criminal justice system, which she felt delayed her ability to put criminals in jail and even allowed them to go free. Therefore she adopted her alter ego which allowed her to pursue her quarry vigilante style. Unlike Lady Luck and later freelance female crime fighters like The Huntress, who often struggled to gain acceptance by the forces of law and order, The Woman was quite open with her boss, the Police Commissioner about her extracurricular activities, which he found helpful short cuts to capturing crooks.

The Woman In Red is also distinctive because of her costume, which consisted of a long red hooded robe, belted with a length of rope, which gave her an almost monastic appearance and she is distinctly non-sexualised, unlike most of her female successors. Any holiness associated with her image was counterbalanced by her mask and the gun and handcuffs she managed to secret in her flowing gown somehow. The Woman In Red featured almost exclusively in Thrilling Comics, first appearing in February 1940 and continuing in that title for almost exactly five years before her stories were discontinued.

The page featured above is from the story, The Curse of Voa, which appeared in Thrilling Comics #5 (June 1940). The villain disguises himself as an African death god, using a terrifying legend to terrorise and murder family members who stand between himself and being able to inherit a lucrative mine. After a major struggle, The Woman succeeds in capturing the bad guy, leaving him cuffed to the leg of a table just as the police arrive!

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her energy !!! !!

JSA Returns: Thrilling Comics (1999)