To the extent that even old-timers remember Charlton Comic's humor comic GO-GO-- a title so square that it made DC's contemporaneous TEEN TITANS look like the height of hipness-- those ancients probably just remember the book's cover-featured attempt at sex appeal, dumb blonde "Bikini Luv." Not a tuff girl at all, she dabbled just once in judo for the sake of a movie role.
I've read the first 24 issues of JUMBO COMICS, and so have noticed that Sheena's not much of a hand-to-hand fighter during this period, relying almost entirely on weapons like knife and spear. In the story from issue #20, though, Sheena meets a female foe who outclasses her in sheer strength: Keela the Ape Queen, who as the captions say, can life a six-hundred-pound gorilla as if he was a mere fifty.
When Keela tries to steal Bob, the women come to blows. Sheena suddenly acquires at least one jui-jitsu move-- possibly taught her by her "mate?"-- which spells doom for the super-strong gorilla-girl.
Meanwhile, in issue #17, time-traveler Stuart Taylor and his pals jaunt back to the era of Alexander the Great. History-books won't tell you how Alexander's reign was endangered by a tribe of Amazons-- how negligent!
Both Peaches and her detective boss "Hooks Devlin" from Fiction House have been deservedly forgotten, but one must admit that Peaches does a good depiction of an operatic Valkyrie.
Though this is one of the longer martial arts battles between Batman and Catwoman, Don Newton's art from BATMAN #355 is definitely subpar this time.
