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FEMFORCE #43

COVER: Black / Heike

EDITORIAL CONTENT: Rocketman / Jet-Girl Pull-Out

MILESTONES: Origin / 1st app. Captain Video; Amazon women are revealed as alien Gammazons; Garganta returns

1st Story: The Gammazons From Galaxy G (21 pgs, 3 parts)

Credits:
Part 1: Bill Black, story; Vic Bridges, pencils; Mark Heike / Chad Hunt, inks; Parts 2 & 3: Bill Black, story; Brad Gorby, pencils; Chad Hunt, inks; Tim Twonky, letters

Synopsis:
One night in FF HQ, Ms. Victory's 24-hour duty tour is interrupted by the holographic image of Captain Video summoning her to use his remotely flown aircraft to join him at his Rocky Mountain HQ. Upon Jen's arrival, Video tells her of his origins, explains his remarkable surveillance system, and warns Jen of the impending arrival on Earth of an alien race of giant woman warriors called the Gammazons. Preparations are made, and when a landing party alights in the Brazilian jungle days later, Tara infiltrates their ranks. With her own height matching those of the aliens, Tara treks with them to the Amazon city where, according to Video's report, they intend to retrieve their Amazon sisters, who have been stranded for centuries. The reunion proves anything but joyous, however, as the city's longtime inhabitants clash fiercely with the new arrivals. Guessing that the Gammazons are after Arachna's crown for some mysterious purpose, Tara seizes it from Arachna's chamber and tries to flee. Meanwhile, Synn investigates a second landing party in Jamaica and watches, first in horror then in fascination, as the aliens' ray guns transform a giant sea creature into its human form of Garganta. At Daytona Beach, Dragonfly's encounter with a third group raiding the Ocean Center studios where Tara became a giant is suddenly menaced by the towering figure of Nightveil, now a giantess herself, looming over them.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

Blue Bulleteer (Laura Wright)(F)(C)

NV C of H 3 (3)

FF 45 (1)

Captain Video (Dr. Ames)(O)

1st app

FF 44 (1)

Dragonfly (Nancy Arazello)

GGAQ 5 (1)(C)

FF 44 (1)

Ms. Victory I (Joan Wayne)(F)(C)

FF 42 (1)

FF 44 (3)

Ms. Victory II (Jennifer Burke)

NV C of H 3 (1)

FF 44 (1)

She-Cat (Jessica Hunt)

NV C of H 3 (1)

FF 44 (1)

Stardust (Mara)

NV C of H 3 (1)

FF 44 (1)

Synn (Silva Synn)

NV C of H 3 (1)

FF 44 (1)

Tara (Tara Fremont)

FF 41 (2)

FF 44 (1)

Villains / Opponents

Alizarin Crimson (as Nightveil)

FF 42 (1)

FF 44 (1)

Gammazons

1st app

FF 44 (1)

Dr. Pauli (F)(C)

only app

Supporting Characters

Arachna

AC Ann 1 (1)

FF 44 (1)

Garganta

FF 32 (1)

FF 44 (1)


Others

Video's assistants; surgeon (F); Amazons; Gammazons; news people

Geography

Orlando; Rocky Mountains; Lago Codajas; Amazon Jungle; Kingston, Jamaica, Daytona Beach

Sites

FF HQ; Captain Video's HQ; Ames' lab (F); hospital (F); Chili Bordello; Amazon City; Kingston beach; Ocean Center

Time

Present, over several days, about a week after Tara becomes a giant

Magic & Technology

Captain Video's aircraft, surveillance equipment, and vision implants; Gammazons' spacecraft, ray guns, transport craft; Arachna's crown

Notes:
Captain Video's eyes, ruined by his treacherous assistant Pauli, have been replaced by electronic implants that give him a 360 degree view via his satellite cameras; he also claims to have intervened in the Scud missile attacks during Desert Storm.... Video, unaware that Jen is not the original Ms. Victory, assumes she has encountered the Amazons before in the Femforce's early battle against them.... Jen deploys Stardust to investigate those Gammazon ships still in orbit, though the team's encounter with these ships is not depicted until the following issue.... The dinosaurs Tara brought back with her from the past in FF 2 have apparently been trained by the Amazons, who use them in the battle with the Gammazons.... Dragonfly voices the thought that one of the Gammazons' objectives is to investigate Earth's giants, Tara and Garganta among them.... As we learn later, the bizarre behavior exhibited by Nightveil is due to the fact that this sorceress is not Nightveil at all, but Alizarin Crimson, who has been impersonating Laura since their collision in FF 42(1).... In FF 44, Dragonfly pins down the time frame for this storyline by referring to the week that has passed since Tara's growth.


2nd Story: The Menace of the Muck Man (8 pgs)

Credits:
Bill Black, story; Frank Turner, art

Synopsis:
Rocketman and Jet-Girl head into the swamp, combining an outing with a test of their new jet packs. Arriving at the home of Tech's friend Professor McNabb, they find the small cabin on fire and McNabb unconscious within. The professor had just been attacked by a prehistoric "muck man" that his experiments inadvertently released from the amber block in which it had been preserved. Heeding McNabb's warning that fire seems to be the creature's only weakness, Pat and Tech track it down and attack. At a critical moment, however, both of their jet-packs fail, the victim of Carteque CEO Byron Foulger's sabotage. Prof. McNabb charges the monster and sets them both afire. The creature is destroyed, but to Pat and Tech's horror, the Professor tells them that he must live forever in his burned, scarred body, as the gas that preserved the monster, which he himself breathed, has rendered him immortal.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

Jet-Girl (Pat Carson)

FF 42 (1)

GGAQ 6 (1)

Rocketman (Tech Carson)

FF 42 (1)

AC Ann 2 (3)

Villains / Opponents

Byron Foulger

FF 33

AC Ann 3 (1)

Muck Man

1st app

GGG 2 (1)

Supporting Characters

Professor McNabb

1st app

GGG 2 (1)


Others

None

Geography

California city (Carteque Industries); swamp area

Sites

Carteque Industries; Professor McNabb's cabin

Time

Present - several hours in one day

Magic & Technology

Jet Girl's and Rocketman's jet packs


Notes:
Pat, as usual, has to contend with Tech's obsession with his work; to make matters worse, she has a less than favorable impression of McNabb, whom she considers a nut for working with his swamp gas.


3rd Story: Beauty and the Beast (6 pgs)

Credits:
The Count, story / layouts; John Nadeau, pencils / inks; Tim Twonky, letters; Bill Black, edits

Synopsis:
The limp body of Janis Lawson, barely aware of her surroundings, is finally plucked from the sea by the Black Shroud's former minions, including the Killer Clown, Iron Jaw, the Frightenstein Monster, and the ship's captain, Singapore Sal. The lady buccaneer is ready to throw the helpless girl back to her doom until the Clown recognizes her and points out her ransom potential. The Monster, captivated by Janis' beauty, goes berserk, claims the title of captain, and grabs Janis to prevent her from being taken below. Sal, infuriated by this mutiny, commands Iron Jaw to drive the pathetic figure off the plank. Bobbing alone in the sea, the creature watches the ship fade over the horizon.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

None

Villains / Opponents

Frightenstein Monster

FF 34

AC Ann 2 (2)

Iron Jaw

FF 35

AC Ann 3 (2)

Killer Clown

FF 35

FF 46 (1)

Singapore Sal

FF 35

FF 46 (1)

Supporting Characters

Janis Lawson

FF 42 (3)

FF 46 (1)


Others

Sal's crew

Geography

Somewhere at sea, Atlantic Ocean

Sites

On board Sal's ship

Time

Present - brief time period in one day soon after the villains' escape from Jungle Island

Magic & Technology

Sal's ship; Iron Jaw's "shock stick"

Notes:
The villains' escape from the caverns beneath Jungle Island is explained by their having found a hidden subterranean channel leading to the sea.... Sal wants to remain the only woman on board, and agrees to keep Janis only when she learns she is the friend of a millionaire's daughter and might fetch a good ransom.

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Based on The Official Guide to The AC Universe by Ken Kerouac
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