MADAM ZERO "Her Name was...Zero"

Real Name: Unknown
Agency/Organization Affiliation: Unknown
Effectiveness Against Commies: Unmatched!

Debuting in this never-reprinted tale from Fiction House's Fight Comics #82 (1952), Madam Zero fought only Commies (of varying ethnicities) for the entirety of her too-short career!

Note: the stories are told exclusively from George's point-of-view, and considering he runs into her in various locales at varying times by accident, it's obvious that...
1) She doesn't work for the same agency as him.
2) She may, in fact, be a totally-independent operative working outside legal constraints!
3) She's involved in situations and adventures he (and his organization) know nothing about!

Asian Avengers TAJ OF THE ELEPHANTS

Probably the first Desi heroine in American comic books...

...this one-shot character (and princess, to boot) appeared in Fiction House's Jungle Comics #57 (1944)

For a "frail girl", she kicks serious a$$!

It's a shame she never got another appearance.

Sadly, both the writer and artist are unknown.

(The records for long-defunct publisher Fiction House are lost to history.)
Note: India is a subcontinent of Asia, so she qualifies as Asian even if she doesn't look stereotypically "Oriental"!

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CoronaVirus Comics PIONEER WEST ROMANCES "FireHair in Fatal Fever"

Despite the title, Fiction House's Pioneer West Romances wasn't a love comic...

...it was about a woman warrior kicking butt in the Old West!

Young Lynn Cabot, nicknamed Princess Smith by her father, a wealthy Boston businessman killed by outlaws posing as Native Americans, was found by Little Ax, son of Chief Tehama of the Dakota tribe and adopted into the chief's family.

Given the name FireHair, she became an expert archer, knife thrower, horsewoman, canoe rower, and hand-to-hand fighter as she got older.

The now-adult woman protected the Natives from anyone who dared to try and exploit or hurt them, as this never reprinted tale of fever and fractured fantasies from Fiction House's Pioneer West Romances #6 (1950), written by John Mitchell (as "John Starr"), penciled by Bob Webb and inked by David Heames, aptly-proves!

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CoronaVirus Comics MADAM ZERO "Rockets of the Red Mist"

Some Reich-wingers like Jerry Falwell Jr postulated North Korea and Red China created the CoronaVirus!

Perhaps Falwell was inspired by this forgotten  heroine's never-reprinted final tale from Fiction House's Fight Comics #84 (1952)!

Anonymous Commie-buster Madam Zero made only three appearances in her short-lived career!

A mistress of disguise, she always surprised the (also anonymous) secret agent who narrated these stories and who played the helpless "Steve Trevor" to her plain-clothes "Wonder Woman"!

Nothing is known about her real identity, motivations, or even which department she worked for!

Note: This is part of an on-going series throughout the entire RetroBlog line featuring disease/epidemic/pandemic tales!

Check out the other RetroBlogs on the left of this page for more such stories!

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TIGER GIRL I and the Twice AND Thrice-Told Tale!

Here's another example of a story that was presented twice...

...with some major changes when it was reprinted several years later!

As you can see, this Matt Baker-illustrated story from Fiction House's Fight Comics #36 (1945) features the death of one of Tiger Girl's pet tigers.

When it was re-presented in a shorter version in Fiction House's Jungle Comics #152 (1952), the outcome was quite different!

Besides eliminating three pages, the re-written version actually keeps the tiger alive!

Matt Baker had left the Iger Studio (who "packaged" the strip for Fiction House) several years earlier, so it's unknown who reworked the art for this version, which was also reprinted in IW Publishing's Jungle Adventures #15 in 1964, making this both a twice and (sorta) thrice-told tale!

Tiger Girl I was Princess Vishnu, a woman of Irish/Indian descent who ended up in Africa with a Sikh bodyguard and a pair of Bengal tigers.

(Yeah, it's a rather unusual origin, we'll bring it to you in the near future.)

She had a healthy run in both Fight and Jungle Comics in the 1940s and '50s, making a number of cover appearances along the way.

SENORITA RIO "Blanquistas Affair"

We presented her origin tale HERE...

...so let's jump into the action in this story from Fight Comics #21 (1943)

She was proficient with weapons, and could handle herself in perilous situations, requiring rescue by male associates far less frequently than most heroines of the Golden Age of Comics.
Art by Nick Cardy, whose comics career spanned over 60 years from the 1940s to the early 2000s, when he retired except for occasional commissioned work.

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