The ubiquitous cover girl of the Golden Age of comics!
From the look on the face of the Blonde in a Red Dress, she’s reading the cover blub and wondering why she’s stuck strapped to a mad scientist’s torture bench rather than having whimsical adventures in the “Davy the Wishmaster” backup story.
Blue Beetle #10 by Fox
Sigh! What a way to start a week: stumbling over the gates to a fiery underworld and being attacked by a legion of infernal demons toting pitchforks and… handguns?
Blue Ribbon #13 by MLJ
Flashback week! The Blonde in a Red Dress seldom talks about her college years — probably because they tended to involve stuff like being taken hostage by glowing radioactive mummies with rayguns.
Well, either that, or maybe she avoids the subject because of her questionable fashion sense at the time. I’m glad she ditched the striped beanie.
Useless comic trivia note: the hero on the cover is called “Lash Lightning” in some issues, and other times is called “Flash Lightning”.
Lightning Comics v1 #5 by Ace
Flashback week! As a teen, our hardworking Blonde in a Red Dress had to learn valuable life lessons about the complications that come from living a tangled web of mystery and intrigue.
(Then again, considering the rest of her long career, it could be that the only lesson she ended up learning was “Try to avoid jobs working in the basement of a dirty store.”)
Teen-Age Romances #23 by St. John
Flashback week! The Blonde in a Red Dress is quite familiar with living a complex double life as an international woman of mystery. Of course, back when she was a teenager, that sort of approach to life tended to cause problems.
Teen-Age Romances #21 by St. John
“Do these beads belong to anyone here? They were Norma’s, but she dared not claim them!”
You can tell this is a flashback to a much earlier role from her youth abroad in the UK, because the grown-up Blonde In A Red Dress has shown that she’ll dare just about anything.
Girls Crystal Weekly #168
Flashback week! Like many celebrities, the Blonde in a Red Dress got her start as a child actor in commercials. Here, she plays the role of teenager Judy Alden for “C-M-O Comics”… which stands for “Chicago Mail Order”, and the stories inside the comic were structured as ads for various products (inlcuding her stylish red outfit.)
C-M-O Comics #1 by Centaur
“If you guys don’t mind, I’m just going to hang out down here in the corner and let you fight it out amongst yourselves for a change. I’ve had a really long week.”
Top Notch #2 by MLJ
It looks like the Blonde in a Red Dress is just a hop, skip and jump back to dry land and away from the pursuing battleship. Now if only she had the invulnerable-hairstyle powers of the superhero from yesterday’s cover.
Speaking of superheroes: Looking up the details of the issue, it appears that this newly arrived hero is known as “The Black Cowl”. I feel silly for not realizing that right away — it’s so obvious, what with his bright blue and red costume.
Prize Comics #9 by Prize
Awakening adrift at sea, the Blonde in a Red Dress gives an envious glare at “Dr. Strange” for whatever mysterious superpower allows his amazingly stylish hair to remain impervious even to the churning ocean waves and incoming torpedoes.
Thrilling Comics v2 #6 by Pines