| FICTION HOUSE COMICS and the origin of Sheena |
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| INTRODUCTION |
| In his introductory essay in The
Golden Age Sheena Queen of the Jungle, published by AC Comics,
Bill Black explains that when he was a kid his favourite
comic heroes were super-heroes and masked cowboys, like The
Durango Kid and Captain Marvel. The guy who lived behind
him liked Sheena, and he could never understand why. Black
realised later that the reason was that the other kid was a
few years older than he was. The cocktail of hormones racing
through the blood of that teenage boy equipped him for a much
more sophisticated appreciation of the delights of Fiction House
comics. A cursory examination of the cover montages presented
on this page should illuminate the point for the uninitiated.
In Jungle Comics Ka'a'nga's mate, Ann, had an amazing
capacity for finding herself in every kind of bondage situation;
Rangers Comics offered the feisty pioneer gal Firehair;
and Planet Comics presented all manner of exotic space
babes. However, the queen of them all, and the breadwinner
of the Fiction House stable, was a long-legged blonde in an
abbreviated leopard-skin outfit. She always had the upper
hand, whether against savage beasts, cantankerous natives or
greedy white hunters. Sheena was always in there
kicking butt. This is her story. |
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| COMIC COVER GALLERIES |
| Click on the image below to view a complete set
of Jumbo and Jungle Comics covers, and examples of other Fiction House titles: |
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SOURCE
• Essay, Sheena Queen of the Jungle,
by Bill Black and Bill Feret in The
Golden Age Sheena Queen of the Jungle, Paragon Publications, 1999
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• The montages of Fiction House covers were created from a CD-Rom of
comic covers in my private collection |
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SHEENA
© is the property of Sony Pictures Corporation
This independent, fan-based analysis of the Sheena material is copyright
© 2006 Paul Wickham
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