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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Jungle Girl

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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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Jungle Girl

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Perils of Nyoka

The two movie serials the character appeared in!

CoronaVirus Comics PAT PARKER: WAR NURSE "Disease from the Depths"

Few non-superpowered World War II heroines had as active a career as...

 ...who went through three different incarnations during the conflict!

Introduced in Harvey's Speed Comics #13, British nurse Patricia Parker kicked the butts of spies, saboteurs, and medical black marketers in plainclothes for two issues before donning her costume and identity at the end of this never-reprinted story from Speed #15 (1942).

She was as proficient at Nazi-clobbering in costume as without one.

You'll note Pat didn't need a guy to assist her.

But, as of Speed Comics #23, she teamed up with several women from other countries (China, Russia, and America) to form the Girl Commandos, a distaff version of the multi-national Blackhawks...

...and dropped the "War Nurse" identity for the remainder of her run!
Note: If the art seems a tad un-detailed, even for a Golden Age comic, that's because the book wasn't normal sized (7.75" x 10.5"), but the smaller digest magazine-size (4" x 6.75")!
We just run them at the same size as the regular comics on this blog for your viewing ease!

 

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Medical Women are Truly HEROINES!

Italian comics (or "Fumetti") artist Milo Manara is noted for his beautiful (often nude) women...

...though not in his work for America's PG-13 Marvel Comics!

But these last few weeks, living in an Italy under total lockdown, Manara has started taking a very different approach to portraying women...

Rather than the usual coquettishly-posed, minimally-clad examples of male lust, he's discovered a different appreciation of the female form.

Posting on Facebook, he expresses his gratitude to doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and techs, policewomen, delivery workers and others who perform essential services during the pandemic.

In terms of style, it's still recognizably his work, but now has a far different focus.

Check out his FaceBook gallery HERE.

BONUS: There's a "motion comics" version of this superb illustration...

...HERE!
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X-Women
Manara's only Marvel Comics work (besides covers like the Black Widow one above)!
Scripted by long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont