Thundra! Femizon from the Future Appreciation (2019)

[MajorHoy]

First Appearance:
Fantastic Four #129 (December 1972)



and from
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Vol. 1 No. 11 (November 1983

[MajorHoy]

a couple more Marvel Handbook entries for Thundra:

from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 No. 13 (December 1986)


from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #13 (December 1991)

[Phoenixx9]

I love Thundra, the Femizon! Her and Valkyrie were Marvel's first 2 super-strong female characters and 2 of my favorites!

An interesting note from the pics above: a few were redone to show characters that were not there in the original drawings! The one of "Thundra" punching "Ms Marvel" through the wall should be Ms Marvel punching a female Doctor Spectrum. The other one with Thundra smashing Sub-Mariner should be the Thing.

[Immortal Hulk]

I love her! Most badass of the female powerhouses!

[kilderkin]

One of my favourite ever characters, would love to see more of her

The image of her belting the thing and knocking him back was astounding at that time

Fantastic

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Fantastic Four #148 Jul 1974
"War on the Thirty-Sixth Floor!" Guest-starring Thundra.
Returning to the Baxter Building following the revelation that Sue is willingly staying with Namor,
the downtrodden Fantastic Four soon find that they are not alone in the Baxter Building.
Reed is attacked first by the Sandman who is hiding out in Reed's lab.
Freeing the rest of the FF who were trapped in an elevator, they begin searching
out the rest of their headquarters for the other members of the Frightful Four.

The Sandman reunites with the Wizard and Trapster and they begin their hunt for each of the members of the Fantastic Four.
The Trapster finds the Human Torch first and manages to immobilize him with his super-paste.
The Wizard tracks down both Reed and Medusa and is able to defeat them by placing anti-gravity discs on their backs.
Finally, the Thing is attacked by the Sandman. However he avoids defeat when their fight is interrupted by Thundra,

who has come to make good her previous warning to her former teammates in the Frightful Four about attacking the Fantastic Four ever again.

Meanwhile, Johnny manages to break free of the Trapster's paste-trap and easily defeats his old foe.
He then finds the Wizard and uses the Trapster's paste gun to immobilize him.
Freeing Reed and Medusa, the FF reunite and contain the villains they have defeated.

When Reed asks Thundra how she knew they were in trouble, the possible answer is interrupted when they all become
aware that Namor has risen sea monsters from the sea and intends to renew his aggressions towards the surface world.

Script by Gerry Conway. Pencils by Rich Buckler. Inks by Joe Sinnott.

[kcekada]

I love her! Most badass of the female powerhouses!

Yeah, I like her much better than She-Hulk. She has a great costume, and an interesting personality. I'm not sure why they gave her a daughter (with the Hulk as a father), but I guess it gives her a stronger connection to the rest of the Marvel universe.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

I love Thundra, the Femizon! Her and Valkyrie were Marvel's first 2 super-strong female characters and 2 of my favorites!

I didn't realize this until you pointed it out they precede the 1980 Savage She-Hulk!

[Phoenixx9]

I didn't realize this until you pointed it out they precede the 1980 Savage She-Hulk!

Yes, indeed!

Valkyrie, Thundra, then later Ms Marvel all preceeded She-Hulk (1980).

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

I totally forgot about the comicbook character Ms. Marvel!

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Marvel Two in One #54 Aug 1979
"The Pegasus Project Part 2: Blood and Bionics!" Guest-starring Deathlok and Quasar. Thundra cameo.
The Thing is wandering the Project Pegasus complex when he is attacked by the Nth Command's agent, the cyborg known as Deathlok.
The cyborg attacks Ben with lethal force and manages to injure his arm.
When Ben tries to appeal to Luther Manning, the cyborg informs Ben that it has been culled of all it's organic components
and is run completely by an artificial intelligence before resuming it's brutal assault on the Thing.
When Quasar arrives with Pegasus security, Deathlok flees the scene.
With Ben given the care of Pegasus medical staff, Quasar goes after Deathlok to figure out what the cyborg is up to.

The damaged cyborg meanwhile has traveled deep into the complex and has
begun setting up a Nth Projector in the Radioactive Disposal Section of the facility.
Quasar manages to track Deathlok there and resumes his attack unaware of what Deathlok was doing in this area.
During the fight, the cyborg suffers severe damage to its body, even more so
when Pegasus security arrives along with a medically treated Ben Grimm.
When Quasar hears that Deathlok has activated a self-destruct device he uses
his Quantum Bands to destroy it's body, leaving its head intact for questioning.
However, the cyborg has forseen this possibility and causes it's head to self-destruct
leaving nothing behind to determine the cause of Deathlok's attack on the facility.

While back in New York City, Thundra has begun practicing for her new career as a female wrestler for Oglethorpe,
and is pitted against a group of female wrestlers known as the Grapplers (Poundcakes, Screaming Mimi, Letha and Titania)

all of whom Thundra manages to defeat easily.

Back at Pegasus, Thomas Lightener has ventured down into the Radioactive
Disposal section to check and see if the Nth Projector had been discovered.
Finding it unmolested, he calls his leader at Nth Command who demands that Lightner finish constructing the device himself
and to initiate their contingancy plan that they had organized in the event that Deathlok had failed in it's mission.

As Ben and Quasar greet Bill Foster who has come to bring the villain Atom Smasher into the Project's custody for study
Lightner sneaks into the cell of another radioactive menace: Nuklo, the mutant son of the Whizzer and Miss America.
He awakens the child like creature and opens up his cell in the hopes that the mutant
will cause enough destruction around the compound for him to finish his plan.

Story by Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio. Art by John Byrne and Joe Sinnot.

[kcekada]

I love Thundra, the Femizon! Her and Valkyrie were Marvel's first 2 super-strong female characters and 2 of my favorites!

An interesting note from the pics above: a few were redone to show characters that were not there in the original drawings! The one of "Thundra" punching "Ms Marvel" through the wall should be Ms Marvel punching a female Doctor Spectrum. The other one with Thundra smashing Sub-Mariner should be the Thing.

I realized that the Namor image was added, but didn't realize that the Ms. Marvel image was edited. I know in the Avengers Annual that the scene is from -- did show Thundra punching Ms. M. through a wall, but it may have show differently. The picture of her picturing Namor, I believe , featured Hyperion -- from Marvel Two-In-One. She did however punch Namor in a Fantastic Four story.