First appearance = [B][I]Sensation Comics #68[/I][/B] (August 1947):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l11.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l12.jpg[/img]
And she returned in the following issue ([B][I]Sensation Comics #69[/I][/B], cover-dated September 1947):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l13.jpg[/img]
All told, it looks like this wielder of the forces of "black magic" appeared in six stories back in the late 1940s.
And here's the rest of that story from [B][I]Sensation Comics #69[/I][/B] (September 1947):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l14.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l15.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l16.jpg[/img]
I like this villain quite a bit in spite of her small publication history. I think she'd make a great villain for the Justice League Dark team.
She also showed up in [B][I]Sensation Comics #70[/I][/B] (October 1947):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l17.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l18.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l19.jpg[/img]
The final two pages of the battle between Sargon and The Blue Lama in [B][I]Sensation Comics #70[/I][/B] (October 1947):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l21.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blue_l20.jpg[/img][SIZE=1]
but she would be back for more . . . [/SIZE]
Weird. My recollection of her (from the re-prints they did in the 1970s) was a giant blue woman, but that does seem to be the case. Wonder where I got that idea from.
[QUOTE=Sandy Hausler;4544930]Weird. My recollection of her (from the re-prints they did in the 1970s) was a giant blue woman, but that does seem to be the case. Wonder where I got that idea from.[/QUOTE]Sometimes she could appear that way, but she wasn't necessarily looking like she was giant-sized all the time.
Blue Lama's appearance in [B][I]Sensation Comics #71[/I][/B] (November 1947) was reprinted in [B][I]Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains #6[/I][/B] (February 1973), though it didn't get any credit on that cover.
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/wanted15.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/wanted14.jpg[/img][SIZE=1]
[FONT=Century Gothic]To be continued . . . [/FONT][/SIZE]
She could have been an amazing Wonder Woman foe.
If only DC had rescued more of it's forgotten golden-age villains...especially the villainesses...especially the sorceresses.. :(
The remaining two pages from Blue Lama's appearance in [B][I]Sensation Comics #71[/I][/B] (November 1947)
[SIZE=1]as reprinted in [B][I]Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains #6[/I][/B] (February 1973)[/SIZE]:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/wanted16.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/wanted17.jpg[/img]
Blue Lama appeared in [B][I]Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #19[/I][/B] (December 2016)[SIZE=1] <printed version> [/SIZE] when Scooby-Doo and the gang helped Zatanna to locate her father:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/-_aaaa12.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/-_aabb10.jpg[/img][SIZE=1]
NOTE: These images were from the digital-first version, #'s 37 and 38.[/SIZE]