HEROINE HEADCOUNT: OWL GIRLS #1 AND #2

In the early 1940s Dell Comics published a moderately successful Batman-knockoff, the Owl. Whereas a lot of Golden Age Bat-imitators tried to follow the basic setup of the DC comic, the creators of THE OWL didn't go for a lot of that crazy pulp stuff, and tended to do rather simplistic mystery-stories with a superhero in them.

After a little while, the Owl got a "female Robin," Owl Girl. However, unlike most female crimefighters, the first Owl Girl was only a moderately skilled fighter.

The second Owl Girl appeared roughly twenty years later, when SUPERMAN creator Jerry Siegel convinced Dell to let him bring the Owl out of mothballs, for two issues of THE OWL, with a campy approach following the example of the BATMAN teleseries. This Owl had the same name as the one from the forties, but the second Owl Girl had a different monicker, plus showing herself to be skilled in judo and karate.