Butterfly...the FIRST Black SuperHeroine's Premiere!

Butterfly debuted as a back-up feature in the b/w comic magazine Hell-Rider #1, August, 1971.
She predated Marvel's Storm by four years and DC's BumbleBee by five years.

Secretly Las Vegas cabaret singer Marian Michaels, the flying femme's origin and crime-fighting motivations were never revealed.

Butterfly wore a somewhat-skimpy winged costume (note: there are no color pics of the character) with an anti-gravity device/mini-jet for propulsion, and high-intensity strobe lights to blind her foes.
Whether she created the costume and equipment herself or was given them is another mystery.
She's also a trained hand-to-hand combatant.

This premiere story was written by Gary Friedrich, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Jack Abel and Mike Esposito.

Enjoy...

Tomorrow: Enter...the Wild Bunch!

Lobo #2 Part 3--Showdown! (And THE END of Lobo!)

Read previous chapters of Lobo HERE!

 When last we left our hero...

 After "The King's" plan to frame Lobo (in order to trick the local sheriff into hunting and killing the hero) fails, the crazed criminal is forced to do his own dirty work...

But Lobo didn't return...

This was his last appearance...anywere!

(There's never even been a reprint trade paperback.)

That's why it's up to you, dear reader, to spread the word!

Link to this blog's entries on Lobo!

Tell others of the FIRST Black character to have his own comic book!

Let the Lobo legend live!

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Lobo #2 Part 2--The Posse

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 When last we left our hero...

Lobo interferes with the plans of "The King", who is attempting to drive local ranchers off their spreads in order to claim the "abandoned" land for himself.

Tomorrow: Showdown!
The FINAL Chapter in the Saga of Lobo!

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Lobo #2--The King of the West!

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 When last we left our hero...

Landing a job as a "drover" with a cattle drive, an ex-Union soldier tries to be accepted as just another cowboy.

But a cruel Fate has other plans for him, as he is framed for murder.

Now known as "Lobo",  he seeks to clear his name.

But, the man who actually committed the killings dies before confessing to the authorities!

Tomorrow:
Lobo is stalked by The Posse!

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Video Fridays THE GREEN HORNET in "Fury of the Dragon"

As we mentioned in our Video Fridays entry here, there were two Green Hornet tv episode compilation films produced after Bruce Lee's death.
This is the second one, which received very limited distribution in the US, but was very popular overseas.
As you can see from the ad art, the producers actually played down the connection to the Hornet tv series, playing up Lee with an illo based on stills from his other films!
Using the episodes "Trouble for Prince Charming",  "Bad Bet on a 459-Silent", "The Ray is for Killing", and "Secret of the Sally Bell" as the basis of the film, the editors also added unrelated fight footage from other episodes to pad the running time (as was done in the first film).
It's an interesting, and sad, note to the Green Hornet's career, at a point where he doesn't even appear on the poster for a film version of his own show!
Enjoy.