JET DREAM "Achillies Heel"

Most of our audience doesn't read our "sister" blog...

...True Love Comics Tales™, so they missed this story featuring the all-woman crimefighting team that predated Charlie's Angels by almost a decade!

This short tale by writer Dick Wood, penciler Mike Sekowsky, and inker Frank Giacoia is from Man from U.N.C.L.E. #13 (1967).

Jet Dream and Her StuntGirl CounterSpies appeared in 4-page tales in the middle of the book from #8 to #22, then appeared in a book-length story in a one-shot comic.

It's never been reprinted, and very few of the stories are available on the Net...until now!

Besides the book-length tale we ran HERE and HERE, we re-presented the entire series, beginning with the premiere at our "brother" blog Hero & Heroine Histories™.

BTW, you really should check out True Love Comics Tales™ since it features many of the same artists and writers you'll find here (including legendary good-girl artist Matt Baker), and lots more beautiful women!

(We won't tell anyone you were looking at "girls' comics"!

We promise!)

 

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BLACK VENUS "Sacrificed to the Flag of the Rising Sun"

Now wearing a costume almost exactly like rival aviatrix Black Angel...

...Black Venus is led into a trap by a devious Japanese commander.

NOTE: contains racial stereotypes that may be NSFW!)

Illustrated by noted cover artist and art director L B Cole, this tale from Aviation Press' Contact Comics #3 (1944) was the beginning of a new direction for the heroine as she became more aggressive in taking on Axis foes instead of simply waiting for them to attack first.

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AIRBOY "Easter Egg" Conclusion

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

Aviator-hero Airboy almost crashes when a private plane flown by young heiress Bonnie Easter lands at the airport in front of him without signaling.

After apologizing and explaining she's distraught over her dying uncle, the girl rushes to his home where she is given $1,000,000 in cash with the proviso that she spend it all before the old man passes away...or it will go to a crooked gambler who framed him!

When gunmen attempt to kill the girl, she ends up at the skyscraper home of AirBoy, who uses his advanced aircraft, Birdie, to spirit them away...

Bonnie has a million dollars and AirBoy's paying for dinner?

The heiress became Airboy/David Nelson's ongoing girlfriend both helping and hindering him as the plot required for the remainder of the series.

Oddly, though she's blonde in the stories, most of the covers she appears on (including this issue) show her as brown-haired!

This intro tale in Hillman's AirBoy Comics V3N11 (1946) was scripted by Dick Wood and illustrated by Dan Barry.

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AIRBOY "Easter Egg" Part 1

Valkyrie wasn't the only woman in Golden Age hero AirBoy's life...

...there was also Bonnie Easter, heiress with an independent attitude, who would later...oh just read and see...

Next Week:

AirBoy vs the Gangster Air Force!

AirBoy vs the Police Air Patrol!

AirBoy vs EVERYBODY...for the life of Bonnie Easter!

This intro tale for Bonnie Easter in Hillman's AirBoy Comics V3N11 (1946) was scripted by Dick Wood and illustrated by Dan Barry.

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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!

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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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BLACK ANGEL "Return of Baroness Blood"

She's back, the aviatrix in the (drool) skintight leotard...

...along with her leather-clad dominatrix arch-foe and a host of nasty Nazis conducting evil experiments on humans!

Now that's entertainment!

John Cassone illustrated this tale of vengeance deferred in Hillman's Air Fighters Comics #2 (1942)

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