Showing posts with label Blonde Phantom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blonde Phantom. Show all posts

23 June 2019

So! It's YOU, Louise!

Let's get back to the Blonde Phantom...


Blonde Phantom Comics ran for only 11 issues between 1946 and 1949. But she got around during that time. Not only did she have her own book, she had strips in Sub-Mariner Comics, Namora, Sun Girl, Marvel Mystery Comics and Blackstone The Magician, whose splash panels we see here -


These were typically short (four page) tales. For examples of the stories, here are her two appearances from Sun Girl #s 2 & 3 -



When she showed up in Marvel Mystery Comics, she was the big star up front on a cover the heroes later made famous as The Invaders - Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner -


She showed up on two more covers.* Once damsel in distressing for the Human Torch...


...and once more to party with Torch, Subby and Sun Girl...


Louise had seven adventures in MMC, the splash for one of which is featured at the top of this post. Here are the other six -


After 1949, it was off to comics limbo for her, as we saw in Sensational She-Hulk.


But - she did escape limbo once in the '70s, a dozen years before she managed to become a supporting character for Jennifer...

story art by Bill Black

We can see how desperate she was to leave limbo if she showed up for just those two pages, eh?

Some may wonder at why we didn't see the Blonde Phantom in the sequence that closed out the Sensational She-Hulk comic, which we saw at the end of our first post on Deadpool's Big Green Mama.

The thing is - we did! In perhaps the sneakiest way possible.

As you might recall (or can follow that link above to go back and look), Millie The Model was introduced as the hidden 'villain' in those pages.

So, so sneaky...

Story art by Ken Bald


art from Blackstone The Magician #s 2, 3, & 4, Submariner # 27, Sun Girl #s 2 & 3, Marvel Mystery Comics #s 84-91, Bizarre Tales #1, Millie The Model #2 (1946-1949, 1977)

*(Oops.
I just noticed that she appeared on one more cover for Marvel Mystery Comics - #86. Sorry, it's not scanned & prepped. It's a split focus cover, with her hanging out with a couple of pirates on the bottom right. That means there were 8 stories, also.

That help?)

20 June 2019

LOOK! The Blonde Phantom Is Here Tonight!

I mentioned yesterday that we'd be heading to visit Deadpool's Big Green Mama, but i'm still working on corralling my peripatetic mind and it doesn't want to write about that just now. So we're gonna slip around back and sneak up on it.

The Blonde Phantom first appeared in All Select Comics in the fall of 1946, with her own title debuting that winter.

So why is everyone laughing?



Perhaps, one might think, it has something to do with her adventures? Blonde Phantom Comics #12 (the first issue. You know how it goes) opened up with an impressive looking enough splash - full page even -


As the story opens up, however...


And that seemed to be a primary focus - dating her boss...



Little might one suspect what a deeply strange fate awaits her...

page art from Blonde Phantom Comics #s 12, 17, & 20 (1946, 1947, 1948)