Halloween Heroines LADY LIBERATORS "Come On In...the Revolution's Fine!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines (and Heroes)...

...no, this hasn't occurred...yet!

The Wasp receives a mysterious message that directs her to a meeting in Avengers Mansion...but not with the Avengers, but a new group of heroines led by a mysterious woman named Valkyrie!

The team heads for Rutland, where four Avengers; The Vision, Black Panther, Quicksilver, and Goliath II, have already arrived to protect a local scientist with a top-secret invention from a planned kidnapping!

Arriving just in time for the Rutland Halloween Parade (which the professor is participating in) the heroes encounter the Masters of Evil, who are now on the verge of victory...

For the record, the Enchantress did survive.
Bad girls (and guys) have a knack for that sort of thing!
Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by John Buscema, and inked by Tom Palmer, Marvel's Avengers #83 (1970s) introduced the Rutland Halloween Parade into comics lore where it remained for a couple of decades!
At least one comic would set a tale at the parade every Halloween until the mid-1990s!
It's reappeared occasionally since then...
BTW, The Lady Liberators returned almost a half-century later, but that's a story for another time...

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Halloween Heroines LADY LIBERATORS "Come On In...the Revolution's Fine!" Part 1

The very first time the Rutland Halloween Parade (which features comic book characters) appeared in comics...

...was this tale, which didn't even mention the parade itself on the cover...or the fact it takes place on Halloween!

Keep in mind this was 1970, and the Women's Liberation movement was on the rise!

Actually, this sort of lab accident is a lot more common in comics than in real life.

And unlike in real life, in comics it usually results in this...

(Take everything the Valkyrie says with a grain of salt...)

Real-life Parade organizer and comics uber-fan Tom Fagan usually dressed up as Batman for the parade, but since this isn't a DC comic, they put him in the garb of Marvel's "evil Batman", NightHawk of the Squadron Sinister (itself an evil version of the Justice League)!

If you're too young to understand the reference to "Mrs Peel" who was part of the other Avengers, read HERE.

She's a heroine we'll have to do a post or two on in the future!
One other thing, the big guy is not Henry Pym, The Wasp's husband and the original Ant-Man/Giant-Man/Goliath/YellowJacket (don't ask) or Scott Lang/Ant-Man II, but Clint Barton aka Hawkeye, who gave up archery for awhile to become Goliath II.
He went back to being Hawkeye a year later.

Things aren't going too well for the superheroes!

So where are the superHEROINES?

Be here

TOMORROW

as they make their decidedly-dramatic entrance!

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VALKYRIE "Conclusion"

When Last We Left Our Anti-Heroine (and Hero)...

Heroic teen aviator AirBoy, who controls the futuristic aircraft "Birdie", encounters the AirMaidens, a team of German aviatrixes who have been shooting down Allied aircraft.

Though he manages to defeat their leader, Valkyrie, in one-on-one combat, he is forced down by superior numbers, and is captured by the Luftwaffe.

Rankled by AirBoy's victory over her, Valkyrie tortures him to learn the secret of controlling his aircraft.

But, some of her squadron, sympathetic to the captive teen's plight, manage to hide AirBoy.

The AirMaidens who betrayed the Nazis are ordered put to death, and Valkyrie, to save her teammates, goes to where AirBoy is hidden...

Valkyrie would return several times during AirBoy's run in Air Fighters Comics and his own title.
When Airboy was revived by Eclipse Comics in the 1980s, Valkyrie assembled a new team of AirMaidens including a new incarnation of Black Angel, and a female version of SkyWolf called La Lupina.
The revival was succesful enough to warrant a pair of Valkyrie mini-series and an Air Maidens one-shot.

While the writer of this Golden Age is unknown, this introductory tale from Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #14 (1943) was illustrated by Fred Kida and Bill Quackenbush.

NOTE: there was a second Nazi aviatrix named Valkyrie during the Golden Age. 
She appeared in the only issue of Spotlight Publishers' TaleSpin (1944) as the nemesis of the one-shot hero FireBird, as detailed HERE!

Be here next week, when we present another tale of classic comic grrl power!

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NOT Who You Think: VALKYRIE "Part 1"

She's not Marvel's Norse warrior-woman...

...but the first comic character to bear the name "Valkyrie"! During the Golden Age, besides Black Angel, Hillman's Air Fighters Comics featured another aviatrix, but this one was not a heroine, at least initially...

Will Valkyrie rescue her friends?

Will she betray AirBoy to do it?

And, what of Birdie?

Be here next week for the exciting conclusion! 

While the writer is unknown, this introductory tale from Air Fighters Comics #14 was illustrated by Fred Kida and Bill Quackenbush.

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