Tygra of the Flame People ran as a back-up feature in
later issues of "Startling Comics" during the golden age. In
her origin story, Lynn Thomas was returning from a nearby village with an
experimental vitamin that was desperately needed to stem the tide of a plague,
when her airplane crashed during a thunderstorm. Inadvertently ingesting the
elixir to revitalize her diminished pep, Lynn
overheard a cry and rushed to the aid of a local tribesman under attack by a
lion, only to discover that she had become somewhat ferocious in battle
herself. In a genre-bending adventure that could easily have appeared in later
silver age anthology titles, "The Stone Man From Space" from Startling
Comics #53 (Sept.1948); originally published by Better/Standard/Nedor, was
written by Joe Greene and illustrated by Art Saaf. “Tygra” (as Lynn Thomas was
christened by the Flame People) and her paramour, Dr. Terry Winton also make
their final golden age appearance (this is the last issue of the series). The
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classic comics downloads [please go donate to their site], as the source
of these scans. Note: The copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork
belongs to the original publisher and/or the creators and is reproduced here
solely for entertainment purposes. Enjoy!
2 comments:
2:6 is great! Tygra, unaware of the specific danger, simply knows that Terry is pretty much like a toddler, not to be let wander away.
This is exactly why it always irked me when golden age jungle girls were saddled with regular male love interests. Those guys were always either wimps who needed rescuing or tough guys whose actions almost eclipsed the real star of the feature.
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