CoronaVirus Comics NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL "Jungle Fever Fury! Chapter Three: Dance of Death!"

When Last We Left Our Heroine...

...when Nyoka tries to put an end to the awful death toll claimed by the most horrendous enemy of the Jungle People, swamp fever...her life hangs in the balance as she battles twin terrors...disease and ignorance!

(BTW, you haven't missed a chapter!

The second part of this post appeared on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video!)

Though the long-running comic was based on the two Republic Studios movie serials Jungle Girl and Perils of Nyoka, those were based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, Jungle Girl aka Land of Hidden Men...

...which took place in Cambodia and featured an Asian heroine!

All the studio took was the title and Burroughs' name.

The rest was totally-new!

The novel itself has never been adapted into live-action or animated form, or even a comic book, though there is an internet comic strip at the official Edgar Rice Burroughs website!

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Perils of Nyoka

The two movie serials the character appeared in!

CoronaVirus Comics NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL "Jungle Fever Fury! Chapter One: Burning Revenge!"

Since it was based on a movie serial character...

...the Nyoka comic book followed the multi-chapter cliffhanger format, which is rather convenient for our purposes!

Actually, the next chapter will appear on our "brother" RetroBlog Secret Sanctum of Captain Video over the weekend, with the final chapter returning here next week!

You'll note that the African natives, unlike most jungle comics of the era, aren't portrayed in overly-racist stereotypes.

Also: unlike most of the jungle heroines of the era, Nyoka isn't garbed in a tight animal skin, but safari jacket and shorts!

Despite that, her book lasted longer than most, first at Fawcett from 1945 until 1953, then at Charlton until 1957!

Their dialogue and imagery is no worse than most examples of American Indians from Westerns in the same era!

Sadly, none of the creatives from this never reprinted story from Fawcett's Nyoka the Jungle Girl #54 (1951) can be definitively-identified!

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CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE "Jim Lee Catwoman Sketchbook"

Jim Lee, who in 2004 had just illustrated the best-selling Batman: Hush, did the cover for the Catwoman movie adaptation...

...and here's the story of how he went on-set to create it!

Wow!

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CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Conclusion

We Last We Left Our Heroine...

...framed for the murder of cosmetics magnate George Hedare (actually committed by his wife, Laurel), Patience Phillips aka Catwoman is arrested by her lover, Detective Tom Lone (who knows her secret identity)...

To say this flick was almost universally-panned would be charitable.

To be fair, Halle Berry did her best with what she was given.

And, to her credit, she took the criticism in stride, even accepting the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in person...

Trivia:
Until 2017's Wonder Woman, Catwoman was the highest-grossing superheroine movie of all time!
The film was going to be released in IMAX...

...but the SFX couldn't be completed in time!
Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!
Why did we present this particular flick as our Black History Month month entry?
1) Catwoman was the first flick to feature a Black superheroine in the title role!
Note: both BlankMan and Meteor Man predated it as Black superhero flicks.
But BlankMan didn't have a comic book adaptation, and Meteor Man had both a movie adaptation and a six-issue sequel series which set it in the Marvel Universe!
We'll be doing Meteor Man next year as a RetroBlog crossover event between Hero Histories, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video and Atomic Kommie Comics!
2) Catwoman starred Halle Berry! 'Nuff said!
Speaking of Halle...tomorrow we'll post a text feature by cover artist Jim Lee about how he was able to get her to pose, in costume, for him!

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CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Part 2

When Last We Left Our Feline Femme Fatale...

Meek (dare we say "mousey"?) graphic artist Patience Phillips, ordered to meet a midnight deadline by her abusive boss, George Hedare, arrives and discovers the doors locked!

Gaining access through a window, she accidentally-eavesdrops on the chemists working on her company's new makeup line...which has frightening side-effects on users!

The scientists, not realizing she's an innocent employee who inadvertently-overheard them, call security officers, who pursue and shoot the panicked woman, who then falls from a height that (combined with her gunshot wound) would kill a normal person...and does!

But, her corpse is surrounded by a group of cats...who apparently restore her to life!

MEOW!

To Be Continued Tomorrow at...

Secret Sanctum of Captain Video

Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!

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