Electra Woman and Dyna Girl - TV Superheroes

While CBS was tearing up the night time airwaves in the 1970s with the gorgeous Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, Saturday morning TV wasn’t too far behind.
There were a few live action heroines there that made a lot of young red blooded males (and a few females) hearts beat faster.

 Like Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
They were a throw back to the old 1966 Batman TV show.
They in no way tried to take themselves seriously.
But those two beautiful women clad in spandex overacting....it was great.
In a 70s way.


Sid and Marty Krofft's TV show only had 16 episodes, but those episodes burned themselves into American TV culture.
You had the beautiful Electra Woman (who was played by Deidre Hall) and her way too cute teenage sidekick Dyna Girl (Judy Strangis in pigtails).
Deidre appeared for over 30 years on the NBC Soap opera Days of Our Lives as Dr. Marlena Evans, and Judy was know (at least to me) from her role on Room 222.

Like Batman had "Bat" everything, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl followed suit.
They changed into superheroes via the "Electra-Change," they had an "ElectraCar," they operated out of "ElectraBase," and where Batman had his utility belt, they had their "ElectraComs.".

In 2001 they tried to revive the series with a tongue in cheek TV movie that was set 25 years after the show.
Electra Woman (Markie Post) and Dyna Girl had split up and she was living in a trailer, and a new Dyna Girl (Anne Stedman) was trying to coax her back into the crime-fighting life.
I actually wish it had been made into a series.
It could have been interesting.

But they didnt stop there....
On February 26, 2015, it was announced that YouTube personalities Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart will star in yet another reboot of the series.
The series was shot in Vancouver during February and March 2015.

The Other Andromeda (Marvel Comics)

Andromeda, by John Buscema

DC Comics isn't the only brand that has an Andromeda. Marvel Comics has one too.
But this one has blue skin and is the daughter of Attuma, one of Prince Namor's ( The Sub-Mariner) enemies.
Despite being a super villain's daughter, she rose above this and became a superhero herself. Fed up with her fathers male chauvinist attitude, Andromeda defected from the ranks of Attuma's legions and joined Atlantis.
Okay, Namor was a chauvinist too, but he wasn't as bad as Attuma.
Andromeda even joined The Defenders.
And died there.
It's okay, Dr. Strange brought her back to life.
Kinda.
And later on, she even got to beat Attuma in one on one combat.

Laurel Gand / Andromeda - DC Comics

Laurel Gand, sometimes known as Andromeda, is a character in the future of the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
She was created as a replacement for Supergirl in post-Crisis on Infinite Earths Legion continuity, because they killed Supergirl.
Andromeda was also inspired by elements of Superman's supposed descendant Laurel Kent, who was revealed to be a Manhunter android in the post-Crisis, pre-Zero Hour continuity.
She was in Superman: The Animated Series, in the episode "New Kids In Town".

I like the costume and all, but all these future time lines and alternate reality superheroes are kinda confusing to me.
Oh for the Silver Age days, when all we had to contend with was Earth 2.
I keep thinking that if Marvel and DC keep going, the entire Earth will be populated with super beings and they'll be no one else left to rescue.

American Dream, Marvel Comics

Artwork by Ron Frenz and Brett Breeding

American Dream, aka Shannon Carter, is a character featured in Marvel Comics MC2 series A-Next.
Her costume is very similar to that of Captain America and like him she has an indestructible metal shield.
She appeared as a civilian in A-Next no. 1, and was named as "Shannon" in A-Next no.3, it was not until A-Next no. 4 that she appeared in costume, as a prospective team member.

American Dream is the daughter of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter. Shannon Carter grew up idolizing Captain America and was hired by Edwin Jarvis as a tour guide for the Avengers Headquarters, at that time functioning only as a museum. When the new Avengers team was formed, she was determined to join.
She wears a costume based on Captain America's and although she is a non-powered human, American Dream is in peak physical condition and is a skilled martial artist. She has disc weapons similar to Ricochet's and has superb aim. She now also carries a version of Captain America's shield, which she uses both defensively and offensively to great effect and her fighting skills are matched by her leadership ability.
After joining the team as the "American Dream", Shannon soon proved herself to be an effective Avenger, and when the team saved the original Avengers from a dark parallel world, Captain America himself judged her worthy to wield the shield of the alternate Captain. She also proved to be an important character in defeating Galactus in the Last Planet Standing limited series. She along with Stinger and Spider-Girl shrink themselves and took down Galactus from the inside. They survived the iminante explosion by shrinking to microscopic size.

Carter is the leader of the "Dream Team" comprising herself, Bluestreak, Crimson Curse and Freebooter. All members of the Dream Team became members of the new Avengers team in A-Next no. 4. American Dream is also an ally of Spider-Girl, Earth Sentry, Blacklight, Coal Tiger, Argo and Captain America.

American Dream has fought against the Sons of the Serpent, Seth, the Revengers, Fatal Force and Loki.

American Dream's own five-part mini-series began in May 2008. The first issue was a sell out.

You know I could have sworn I saw a sketch YEARS ago of a woman in a Captain America costume called " American Dream". There was also a female Vision character called " Vision of Loveliness". It seems like they were done by John Byrne, but I could be wrong.

Superheroines A to Z - American Dream
http://www.bubblews.com/news/2463904-superheroines-a-to-z-american-dream

Amber, DNAgents

Amber was a member of the DNAgents that could project disks of electromagnetic energy as shields, weapons or stand on them to fly.
She was very outgoing socially and curious.
DNAgents was a comic book created by writer Mark Evanier and artist Will Meugniot and published by Eclipse Comics in 1983.
I never really got into the DNAgents, I think they reminded me too much of the Teen Titans.
That was proved out in the Teen Titans when the DNAgents " kinda" met the Titans.
I say kinda because the team the Titans fought was called the "ReCombatants". It was one of those crossover teams like the Squadron Supreme/JLA parallel team that fought the Avengers.

If you notice, in most shots, Rainbow (tall, slender, waist length multicolored hair, bare midriff, thigh high boots) is presented in the front, while Amber is in the background there somewhere.
Wonder why.......?
Well anyway, now, Amber gets her own entry without a Rainbow in sight.

DC Comics

DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. A subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment (part of Time Warner) since 1969, DC is one of the world's largest English language publisher of comic books. DC Comics produces material featuring a large number of well-known characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and their teammates in the Justice League, who are among the medium's most popular and influential.

DC Comics was founded as National Allied Publications in 1934 by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. The initials "DC" were originally an abbreviation for the company's popular title Detective Comics, and later became the official name. DC has been successively headquartered at different areas of New York City, including: 432 Fourth Avenue; 480 and later 575 Lexington Avenue; 909 Third Avenue; 75 Rockefeller Plaza; 666 Fifth Avenue; and 1325 Avenue of the Americas. DC moved to 1700 Broadway in the mid-1990s, relocating there with Warner Bros. Entertainment's Mad, which had moved from 485 Madison Avenue.

The corporation is an amalgamation of several companies. National Allied Publications was founded by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (Feb. 1935), later known as More Fun. This groundbreaking comic book was the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. Retitled New Fun after the first issue, it was a tabloid-sized, 10-inch by 15-inch, 36-page magazine with a paper, non-glossy cover. Issue #6 (Oct. 1935) brought the comic book debut of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the future creators of Superman, who began their careers with the musketeer swashbuckler "Henri Duval" and, under the pseudonyms "Leger and Reuths", the supernatural crimefighting adventures of "Doctor Occult".( Doctor Occult is the earliest character created by DC Comics still currently in use in its shared universe fiction.) Wheeler-Nicholson added a second magazine, New Comics, which premiered with a Dec. 1935 cover date and at a size close to what would become comic books' standard size during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age, with slightly larger dimensions than today's. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic book series.

His third and final title was Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated Dec. 1936, but eventually premiering three months late, with a March 1937 cover date. The themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27 (May 1939). By then, however, Wheeler-Nicholson was gone. In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who was as well a pulp-magazine publisher and a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson was compelled to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective #1. Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfeld's accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, and he was forced out. Shortly afterward, Detective Comics Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction.

Detective Comics Inc. shortly launched a fourth title, Action Comics, the premiere of which introduced Superman (a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson was not directly involved; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile). Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype soon to be called superheroes, proved a major sales hit and ushered in the period fans and historians call Golden Age of comic books. The company quickly introduced such other popular characters as Sandman and Batman.



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Jessica Alba, The Invisible Woman

The visibile woman

James Wigney
June 10, 2007 12:00am

Like all good superheroes, Jessica Alba leads a double life. There's Jessica Alba the actor: star of TV series Dark Angel and the smash-hit movies Sin City, Fantastic Four and its coming sequel in which she reprises her role as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman.

Then there's Jessica Alba the sex goddess, who features prominently in magazine polls judging her among the sexiest women alive, put on the cover of Playboy magazine against her wishes and whose bikini-clad body was strategically enhanced on the posters for the dopey sunken treasure yarn Into the Blue.

full article at:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21871877-5006023,00.html

Black Thorn

Created by Paul Kupperberg and Tod Smith, Black Thorn is a DC Comics character that first appeared in Vigilante #45.

Elizabeth Thorne used to have a life as a partying socialite, basically a rich drunk. Her brother forces her into rehab. While happy not to be involved with the bottle anymore, she misses the thrill of life. She joins up with the CIA but soon feels constrained by the need to operate within the law.

She fakes her own death and takes on the identity of Black Thorn. She begins working as a vigilante in New York where she met and fell in love with the Vigilante. For a time, her own methods are more brutal then even the Vigilante's own and they often argue. However, he goes insane and begins murdering innocent people, including cops. In a brief moment of clarity, the Vigilante commits suicide.

Devastated, she is later brought into the Checkmate organization by Harry Stein. There she comes into opposition with Amanda Waller.
Black Thorn is sent, along with Checkmate, Suicide Squad and other operatives, to oppose Kobra's plan to kill millions of people from an orbiting alien vessel. The mission succeeds, though many on both sides die.

Black Thorn is still at least semi-active, as she assists Wonder Woman and a whole host of female heroes against the forces of Circe in New York City.



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