Golden Age Huntress Appreciation (2021)

[MajorHoy]

Before Helena Bertinelli . . . before Helena Wayne . . .
back in 1947, in Sensation Comics #68 (August 1947), Wildcat met up with a woman who went by the name The Huntress.



To be continued . . .

[scary harpy]

A truly great villainess!

(Tigress would have been a much better name for her.)

It is a shame what all was lost in the transition from the golden-age to the silver-age.

Thanks, MajorHoy.

[MajorHoy]

A couple more pages from Sensation Comics #68 (August 1947):

A truly great villainess!

(Tigress would have been a much better name for her.)

Well, since she was hunting Wildcat and the public officials in her first appearance, Huntress did fit her.

Also, Zatara the Magician had an arch-foe who was called Tigress that he tangled with several times in the pages of Action Comics years before Huntress first appeared.

We'll save Roy Thomas' post-CoIE retconning the earlier days of Huntress for another time.

It is a shame what all was lost in the transition from the golden-age to the silver-age.

But Huntress was still around in the Silver/Bronze Age comic book stories, like

The Brave & the Bold #62 (October-November 1965)

[scary harpy]

...

Well, since she was hunting Wildcat and the public officials in her first appearance, Huntress did fit her.

Yes, but Huntress had the best Tigress costume.

Also, Zatara the Magician had an arch-foe who was called Tigress that he tangled with several times in the pages of Action Comics years before Huntress first appeared.

Ruthless would have been a better name for her than Tigress. Those bumblebee sweaters did her no favors either.

We'll save Roy Thomas' post-CoIE retconning the earlier days of Huntress for another time.
But Huntress was still around in the Silver/Bronze Age comic book stories, like

She should have become a regular Batman villain. Many villains should have been rescued from golden-age obscurity...and moved into the Batman's rogues' gallery.

[MajorHoy]

. . . She should have become a regular Batman villain. Many villains should have been rescued from golden-age obscurity...and moved into the Batman's rogues' gallery.

Well, Robin (Dick) and Batgirl (Barbara) did once encounter an Earth-1/Earth-One version of Huntress . . .

[MajorHoy]

Before Helena Bertinelli . . . before Helena Wayne . . .
back in 1947, in Sensation Comics #68 (August 1947), Wildcat met up with a woman who went by the name The Huntress...

And now, . . .
the rest of the story:

[MajorHoy]

Huntress returned to plague Wildcat again in the following issue (Sensation Comics #69, cover-dated September 1947):


To be continued . . .

[Koriand'r]

Major Hoy just wanted to say how much I appreciate you and these threads introducing us to classic characters and keeping them alive.