QUEENS' GAMBITS

Various scenes from SHEENA #2.

Disappointingly, "Black Orchid of Death" introduces competition for Sheena in the hot "Orchid Princess" Twan, but there's no final struggle between the two jungle queens: Twan just loses out on hunky Bob and kills her advisor in retaliation.

 

Solo Sheena.

Sheena helps an unnamed ruler of an unnamed tribe (so I'll just call her "The Native Queen" for my own reference) fend off the usurpation of her evil brother, whom the Queen stabs to death.

Finally, an artist must've got bored drawing hot jungle mamas, since for in "Claws of the Spotted Terror," the Leopard Queen Curso is a fugly lady, despite her crew of leopard men and trained leopards.

 

WESTWARD HOS

 I've remarked on OUROBOROS DREAMS that there are barely any noteworthy Native American characters in pop fiction, but a Belgian comic, SILVERARROW, featured a tough-and-ready Indian maiden named Moonbeam.

 

WESTWARD HOS

 Michelle Lania with "Two-Gun Lil" and "Kit West."

A BEE IN HER BONNET

 In what might be called a "true crime of the West," "The Two Gun Gal" charts the rise and fall of tough gang-leader Jeanne Bonnet, seen here catfighting with a saloon girl named Lu-Lu.

  

ARCHIE ANTICS

 To wit:

WHAT FIST THROUGH YON FAT FACE BREAKS?

 

Before the advent of superhero TV cartoons, female-on-male violence in animated cartoons was pretty rare compared to the normative male-on-male type. I just happened to look up on YT this old MR MAGOO cartoon, "Kangaroo Courting," in which a young girl named Juliet somehow gets a boxing glove on one hand and accidentally slugs her "Romeo" with it. Never thought I'd fnd a screengrab online too, but here it is.     

TENDERIZING COUSIN

 I don't know if you can really call The New Supergirl and the New Superboy "cousins," but she's definitely tenderizing him, even if no one will get the "Tendres Cousines" pun.