The short-lived jungle queen "Vooda" had a schizophenic origin. First, she started out as a reworked version of the unsuccessful heroine of the comic SOUTH SEA GIRL, given the name "El'Nee"in VOODOO #2 (1952), though the South Seas setting seems to been abandoned for an African one.
Then, when the Comics Code came in, Ajax-Farrell couldn't keep using the name VOODOO on one of their horror-anthologies, and so for three issues, which probably served to burn off inventory, the comic changed to VOODA in 1955, which became the new name of El'Nee. FWIW, Vooda was a little more of a fighter than either of the earlier versions, though attentive readers will notice in the second page below that Vooda was clearly clutching a knife that got erased to please Code restrictions. Her opponent's club also disappears in one panel and re-appears in the next.
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