It's October, and for some reason I felt like a sci-fi post today, but at least this nifty late golden age thriller seems cut from the jungle girl genre too. "The Flame Goddess" was originally published by Avon in Strange Worlds #3 (June 1951); ably illustrated by Sid Greene. AC Comics later reprinted it in Barbarians and Beauties #1 (1990). The Catacombs acknowledges "The Digital Comic Museum", as the source of this classic comic story. Note: The copyright for this issue, its contents and artwork belongs to the original publisher and/or creators and is reproduced here solely for entertainment purposes. Enjoy!
Empowered by the God Of Fire himself, Carol Vance Martin (Wildfire) came down from Yellow Mountain took the battle to the criminals of the 1940s using her flame powers in unique and inventive ways. She could create flaming weapons (axes, even bows that fire flaming arrows) and was one of the earliest female superheroes in comics, pulling in a full four months or so before Wonder Woman’s debut. She is extremely minor, even by the standards of this article (she only got 12 appearances and never made it to the cover), and missed being revived by DC thanks to the existence of another Wildfire in the Legion of Super-Heroes…
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