Golden Age superheroines that weren't created by DC or Marvel.

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Quality Comics also gave us USA, the Spirit of Old Glory



who I thought would have made a perfect replacement for Golden Age Wonder Woman in DC's post-CoIE continuity, but . . .

[MajorHoy]

And how can we leave out Quality Comics' Madam Fatal . . .


. . . so what if the character was actually a man who disguised himself as an old lady?

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Mother Hubbard (Chesler / Dynamic Publications)

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Amazona the Mighty Woman (Fiction House)

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Ranger Girl (Fiction House)

[Electricmastro]

And now one from Spain, The Torch:

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From the world of pulp magazines (in printed stories, but not a comic book character) was Domino Lady




Though decades later she would be used in comic book stories:

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I don't think Varga has been mentioned so far -- the character Mars Ravelo created before Darna. Created in 1947, she made a few appearances in Bulaklak Magazine before Mars had a falling out with the publisher and departed to create a nearly identical character in Darna.
1947+bulaklak38a.jpg

Here's a couple of pics of a few non-US characters mentioned by Electricmastro on the first page.

Joke023_021_1.jpg
The Wing (Canadian)

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AcroMaid (UK)



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A few more rare character pics, from my own collection of page scans.

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Polka Dot Pirate (Dime Comics, published by Bell Features, Canada)

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Marvel Maid (Fat and Slat Comics, published by EC)

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Black Orchid (All New Short Story Comics, published by Harvey)


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[Electricmastro]

I don't think Varga has been mentioned so far -- the character Mars Ravelo created before Darna. Created in 1947, she made a few appearances in Bulaklak Magazine before Mars had a falling out with the publisher and departed to create a nearly identical character in Darna.
1947+bulaklak38a.jpg

Here's a couple of pics of a few non-US characters mentioned by Electricmastro on the first page.

Joke023_021_1.jpg
The Wing (Canadian)

acromaid-001a.jpg
AcroMaid (UK)



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It was also made known to me that Dennis M. Reader (creator of Electro Girl, Acromaid, Phantom Maid) created some superheroines named Venus and Starlite Rand, but I couldn't find any in-depth information about them.

http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2...1927-1995.html

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The French superheroine Coraline first appeared the Sunday newspaper, France-Dimanche, in 1954.

Coraline.jpg

Regarding Denis Reader: getting hold of reliable online materials about Golden Age British comics is difficult. The availability of scanned pages is spotty, particularly for superhero stuff, and information is patchy and sometimes contradictory. I've often thought it strange that early UK comics are so poorly covered online, considering that it is possible to find complete scans of early Darna strips from the Philippines along with plenty of supporting information, and entire runs of many Golden Age Canadian superheroes such as The Wing (thanks to Canada's national library scanning their collections). Obviously paper rationing and recycling during World War II meant that only few physical comics survive, but there are a few high-profile collectors (such as the late comicbook historian, Denis Gifford) who seemed to have amassed vast collections spanning many decades, and it is a shame that no library or archive has taken on the task of acquiring and cataloguing (or better still, scanning) these materials.


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[Electricmastro]

The French superheroine Coraline first appeared the Sunday newspaper, France-Dimanche, in 1954.

Coraline.jpg

Regarding Denis Reader: getting hold of reliable online materials about Golden Age British comics is difficult. The availability of scanned pages is spotty, particularly for superhero stuff, and information is patchy and sometimes contradictory. I've often thought it strange that early UK comics are so poorly covered online, considering that it is possible to find complete scans of early Darna strips from the Philippines along with plenty of supporting information, and entire runs of many Golden Age Canadian superheroes such as The Wing (thanks to Canada's national library scanning their collections). Obviously paper rationing and recycling during World War II meant that only few physical comics survive, but there are a few high-profile collectors (such as the late comicbook historian, Denis Gifford) who seemed to have amassed vast collections spanning many decades, and it is a shame that no library or archive has taken on the task of acquiring and cataloguing (or better still, scanning) these materials.


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Yep, one would think that the relatively limited amount of copies of British Golden Age comics would result in a more active effort to scan them for historical analysis, but that doesn't seem quite so.

[Electricmastro]

Hmm...

[Electricmastro]

Introduction ad for Flame Girl from Blue Beetle #10 (December 1941):