The ubiquitous cover girl of the Golden Age of comics!
After seeing the lumpy-faced villain sharing the cover with her, the Blonde in a Red Dress gets the embarassing realization that while that she’s supposed to be in an aviation adventure comic, she somehow must have wandered onto the set of a Dick Tracy comic by mistake. Oops!
Wings Comics #82, Fiction House
Apparently, “ace detective” Kerry Drake wasn’t enough help to get the bomb threat taken care of, so the Blonde in Red had to risk getting her new polka-dot dress dirty and do it herself.
Rangers Comics #37, Fiction House
The Blonde in Red fears that there’s something off-color about her latest cover. No, literally — her dress is magenta, her hair is orange, and her over-the-top ethnic stereotype Japanese villain is orange-brown. Someone get the colorist on the phone!
Rangers Comics #25, Fiction House
Not sure why the bamboo walls of the hut are red, but it allowed our heroine to try avoiding her captor’s attention by blending into the background using the inherent stealth camouflage of her Red Dress.
Fight Comics #20, Fiction House
“Tojo’s Treacherous Loot Legions” would be a great name for a band.
Rangers Comics #10, Fiction House
How she sings as she swings through the air
Look below, there’s her field over there
With her one chute strap gone
She can still carry on
Comin’ in on a wing and a prayer
Wings Comics #73, Fiction House
In this issue: Rip Carson, Tiger Girl, Hooks Devlin, Senorita Rio, Shark Brodie… “and others”?
Sad. It’s the equivalent of ending the Gilligan’s Island song with “and all the rest”.
Fight Comics #33, Fiction House
Iconic jungle heroine “Sheena” was more well-known for her leopard-print leotard look, but on a few early comic covers her role was filled by that all-purpose understudy: The Blonde In A Red Dress.
A green rhinoceros in honor of St. Patrick’s Day? Even if so, it’s still the worst jungle safari vacation ever. She should totally demand a refund from the travel agency.
I love how her facial expression while tied to the back of a rampaging rhino isn’t fear or confusion, but simply resigned annoyance.
Specifically, tied up over the top of an airplane. While being held at gunpoint. While the plane is on fire. And while another airplane strafes the crashing airplane with more gunfire.