JET DREAM AND HER STUNT-GIRL COUNTERSPIES "Spider and the Spy"

Let's welcome back Silver Age Comics' longest-running female James Bond...

...in another short, but sweet comic adventure!

It's amazing how much story writer Dick Wood and artists Mike Sekowsky & Frank Giacoia can cram into only four pages!

Gold Key ran very few ads in their books, so they had to provide editorial content to fill out the 32 pages of material.

Issues 1-6 of Man from U.N.C.L.E. had 32-page stories (Yes, 32 pages of story, not 18-22 story pages with 10-14 pages of ads!)

From #7's into of Jet Dream to the end of the book's run, the lead U.N.C.L.E. story ran 27-28 pages with Jet Dream running 4 pages and, if needed, a one page spy-themed text or filler page.

And all these stories were self-contained.

No ongoing plotlines!

No cliffhangers!

You could jump in at any point and follow the stories perfectly, as you saw in today's tale from Gold Key's Man from U.N.C.L.E. #8 (1966)!

See Another Startling Spy Story Tomorrow at Crime & Punishment!

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Halloween Heroine MOTHER HUBBARD "vs the Eyeless Ogres"

We conclude this chapter in the history of comic book heroines...

...with the final tale of the witch who looks like a traditional fairy tale sorceress; Mother Hubbard!

Most magician-heroines in comics are beautiful women in tights (Scarlet Witch, Zatanna, Clea, etc.). but Mother Hubbard was the personification of a classic fairy tale witch.

Art for this tale in Chesler's Scoop Comics #3 (1942) was by Bill Madden.
Regrettably, the writer is unknown.
It was her final first-run appearance, but Mother's adventures have been reprinted in both the Golden and Atomic Ages.

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

Halloween Heroine MOTHER HUBBARD "vs Soul-Stealing Gnomes"

The mystical heroine who looks like the traditional stereotype of a witch returns...

...this time, taking on a mob of mischievous mystical menaces!

For whatever reason, after taking on Nazis in her first appearance, Mother Hubbard confined her war on evil to gnomes, trolls and the like.
Most magician-heroines in comics are beautiful women in tights (Scarlet Witch, Zatanna, Clea, etc.). but Mother Hubbard was the personification of a classic fairy tale witch.

Art for this appearance in Chesler's Scoop Comics #2 (1942) was by Bill Madden, but the writer is unknown.

Be here next week, when we present another tale of classic (yet creepy) comic grrrl power!

Halloween Heroine MOTHER HUBBARD "vs The Leader"

It's almost Halloween, so here's a witch...

...who battled Nazi spies in this unusual Golden Age series from Chesler Syndicate.

Most magician-heroines in comics are beautiful women in tights (Scarlet Witch, Zatanna, Clea, etc.). but Mother Hubbard was the personification of a stereotypical fairy tale witch.

Oddly, though this is her first appearance, the Nazis know who she is and what she's capable of!

No actual origin (or explanation of how she survived to the present and turned from evil to good) was ever presented during her three-story run.

Art for her premiere appearance in Chesler's Scoop Comics #1 (1941) was by Bill Madden, but the writer is unknown.

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

Halloween Heroine PHANTOM LADY "Monster in the Pool!"

Sexy women and werewolves...

...long before Twilight or True Blood, the Phantom Lady put her scantly-clad body between lycanthropes and an innocent human race!

The art for this tale from Fox's Phantom Lady #16 is by the inimitable Matt Baker, and the story is probably by Ruth Roche.

Supernatural elements would crop up in several more Phantom Lady stories.

Heroine Holidays WOW COMICS "Mary Marvel and the Case of the Criminal Kringles"

A Christmas present for our faithful fans...

...a superheroine Christmas tale with not one...not two...but three superhero guest stars!

(And it's the premiere of her own series as well!)

Mr Scarlet and Pinky was one of the ongoing features rotating cover appearances with other characters on Wow Comics when Mary Marvel was given her own feature in Wow as of #9 (1943) after her introduction in Captain Marvel Adventures #18 and 19 (1942).

But, as of this issue, Mary became either the solo cover star or featured star in every cover until the book shifted format to humor strips in #59 (1947)

Writer Otto Binder and illustrator Mark Swyaze were her co-creators in Captain Marvel Adventures, so it was only appropriate they handle her series intro and several stories after that.

Trivia: When the 1970s live-action Shazam! tv series proved to be a ratings success, the studio considered doing a Mary Marvel spin-off!

But, because DC Comics wanted too much money for Mary, it was decided to use a new character, Isis, in the "sister" series instead!

Ironically, DC then had to pay to license Isis for a comic book adaptation (after introducing her in an issue of Shazam! as shown HERE)!

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