The Blonde in Red is clearly startled! (Less by her epic sci-fi predicament with giant space bugs and more by the fact that the Fighting Yank somehow still got himself top billing despite not showing up for the cover.)
Startling Comics #44, Pines
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All according to plan
I can’t believe the bad guy fell for the ol’ “Distract-the-hooded-cultist-with-a-girl-in-a-skimpy-harem-outfit-while-the-hero-sneaks-up-and-pulls-a-gun-on-him” trick.
The Black Terror #20, Pines
Designated Hostage
The Blonde in Red discovers that being a superhero is hard work. Unless you can pass yourself off as a damsel in distress, in which case you can have plausible deniability to sit back and make your teammates do all the work.
America’s Best Comics #24, Pines
Dinosaur Bait
It’s a little known fact that the brontosaurus was the prehistoric world’s largest and most fearsome predator.
The Fighting Yank #22, Pines
Masque of the Red Dress
Back in the early days, a hero could get by with having their costume insignia simply be their initials rotated by 90 degrees.
Exciting Comics #53, Pines
They’re everywhere!
The crowds at Black Friday sales are just the worst.
Startling Comics #53, Pines
Miss America’s Best!
The Blonde in a Red Dress won the pageant due to her extra high marks in the superheroine cosplay competition.
America’s Best Comics #23, Pines
A Matter of Perspective
OK, so this looks at first glance like it should be a plain ol’ two-fisted adventure yarn… but the longer I stare at this cover, the more I suspect the Blonde in a Red Dress is actually in some sort of sci-fi fantasy adventure about a magical size-changing non-Euclidian hyper-dimension.
Captain Easy #10, Pines
Get your paws off me, you darn dirty ape!
The Blonde in Red hopes that the epic battle between the circus gorilla, skull-faced guy with a snake, and brawny guys with fabulous hair will be enough to distract from her highly questionable co-stars, the “Commando Cubs”… a crack team of gun-toting underage ethnic stereotypes travelling the world to fight Nazis.
Thrilling Comics #36, Pines
Oop And At ‘Em
We’ve got a caveman being chased by a Blonde Amazon in a Red Dress, both in pseudo-Greco-Roman attire, but with a medieval European castle in the background? Aw, heck, I’m sure it’s a time travel story, so I’m not going to waste time trying to figure it out.
Alley Oop #11, Pines