Showing posts with label Spider Woman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spider Woman. Show all posts

14 July 2020

ONES Upon A First Time Around

We've got a quickie today, only six pages long - but it counts double. Not only does she fit into the


feature, but also is the inaugural entry for another feature - one i'd yet to start simply because i don't know what i want to call it. It's a simple notion - spotlighting familiar names that were already used previously. Somehow, Before They Was Them lacks a certain je ne sais quois, n'est pas?

If you're unfamiliar, ONES Upon A Time features characters who were set up for ongoing series but only had One published appearance before disappearing into comic limbo.

Today's star appeared in Major Victory Comics #1 back in 1944. Major Victory came back for a second issue, but she did not. As is all too often the case, the creators' names are lost and unknown.

Meet Helen Goddard, who used the name Spider Woman decades before Jessica Drew -
 


SO many questions about why she had that costume just sitting around. What was she planning?

And, what do you think? Would the kid have turned out to be a sidekick, and that's why she introduced herself to him? 
Or was it just that the fields were barren, so she had none to give? (Yeah, it's one of them days - and the writing on T3C is starting to get a mite strange(r))

page art from Major Victory Comics #1 (1944)