Golden Age Miss Masque / Masquerade (Diana Adams) Appreciation 2021

First appearance: [B][I]Exciting Comics #51[/I][/B] (September 1946 issue), published by Better Publications[SIZE=1] (also known at different times as Pines, Nedor, or Standard)[/SIZE].
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Last Golden Age appearance: [B][U]America's Best Comics #31[/U][/B] (July 1949).
[img]http://images.furycomics.com/viewer/0c/0c88e27c218846f43d176548f0875bc6/10.jpg[/img]

Many years[SIZE=1] (decades) [/SIZE]later, she would eventually return in stories from [B]AC Comics[/B][SIZE=1] (the company that produces [B][I]FemForce[/I][/B])[/SIZE]; in Alan Moore's [B][I]Tom Strong[/I][/B] and [B][I]Terra Obscura[/I][/B] titles; as well as in the [B][I]Project Superpowers[/I][/B] series from Dynamite, though there she would be called "Masquerade" and be given a unique ability.

[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/good_g10.jpg[/img]

[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/good_g12.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/good_g11.jpg[/img][SIZE=1]
from [B][I]Good Girl Art Quarterly #10[/I][/B] (Fall 1992)[/SIZE]

By the way, Miss Masque made it into this week's Cover Contest thread[SIZE=1] ([URL="https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?148597-Cover-Contest-3-31-21-4-6-21-All-Red-Shirts!/page3"]COVER CONTEST 3/31/21-4/6/21 - ALL RED SHIRTS![/URL]) [/SIZE]as an entry:[indent][QUOTE=foxley;5463476][I]The lady in red is dancing with me, cheek to cheek,
There's nobody here, it's just you and me,
It's where I want to be,
But I hardly know this beauty by my side,
I'll never forget the way you look tonight;[/I]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/OPgOf4G.jpg[/img][/QUOTE][/indent]

[QUOTE=MajorHoy;5456003] . . . Many years[SIZE=1] (decades) [/SIZE]later, she would eventually return in stories from [B]AC Comics[/B][SIZE=1] (the company that produces [B][I]FemForce[/I][/B])[/SIZE]; in Alan Moore's [B][I]Tom Strong[/I][/B] and [B][I]Terra Obscura[/I][/B] titles; as well as in the [B][I]Project Superpowers[/I][/B] series from Dynamite, though there she would be called "Masquerade" and be given a unique ability.[/QUOTE]The Alex Ross cover to [B][I]Masquerade #1[/I][/B] from 2009.

[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/masque10.jpg[/img]