Proof positive that superhero costumes don’t actually work on real people.
At least not with some serious alterations. What looks stylish in the comic just looks cheap and tacky on a real person and I can’t imagine how it would look in action in the video Bill Black announces in his editorial.
The Blue Bulleteer is AC Comics’ trademark friendly version of Golden Age superhero Phantom Lady, who was first published by Quality Comics in the forties. When they went out of business in 1956 DC Comics bought their assets including the rights to Phantom Lady and would eventually reintroduce her with a host of other Quality heroes in the 1970s Freedom Fighters series. However in the meantime another publisher, Fox Features had created its own version, having gotten the rights from Iger Studios who had created the Quality Comics version in the first place. It’s the Fox version that would became notorious, as one of the covers was used as an example of how perverted and deranged comics were in Wertham Seduction fo the Innocent… Blame the artist, Matt Baker, for being so good at drawing beautiful women as one of the best of the socalled good girl artists.
AC Comics had started off as Paragon Publications back in 1969 and still exists today. Its formula has remained unchanged over the decades, providing a mixture of reprints of public domain Golden Age series (and ciontinuations of same) with original superhero and other series focusing on “Good Girl Art”. Niche, but it works: their flagship title, Femforce has been in publication since 1985. Not even very many Big Two series can claim the same. Blue Bulleteer is also part of Femforce in her modern guise of Nightveil, relying om magic rather than guns. As the Blue Bulleteer she was active in the forties.
This special celebrates 25 years of her as a character and reprints various Bill Black stories about her. The highlight though is a reprint of one of the Matt Baker’s Phantom Lady stories. There’s also a John Beatty cameo in the Blue Bulleteer photo section at the end of the issue.
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