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Mantra

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Art by Mike Gustovich

Contributed by Ronald Byrd

Lukasz is a mystic knight, born 1500 years ago, who serves the ancient sorcerer Archimage, although his entrance into Archimage’s service forced him to leave behind his beloved wife, Marinna. One of the cadre of twelve agents that Archimage has used over the centuries to oppose his evil brother Boneyard, Lukasz, like his comrades, is capable of being reincarnatedinto a pre-existing body immediately after death, the body’s soul being dispatched to unspecific astral regions. In modern times, after one hundred previous incarnations his latest host body is the beautiful Eden Blake, newly hired agent of the government project Aladdin and single mother of Gus and Evie. In this new incarnation, Lukasz, known as Mantra, has unfamiliar sorcerous powers as part of Archimage’s ultimate plan and must adjust to existence as a woman, including relationships with ex-husband Gus, Sr., and lover Brent. Lukasz retains his male persona and finds Eden’s body to be quite attractive, and when Eden’s persona briefly resurfaces in her body while Lukasz temporarily inhabits an artificial body, the two fall in love. However, soon both are inhabiting the Mantra body, and Lukasz’s continued love for Eden takes narcissism to a new level. Eventually Lukasz is again left alone in Mantra’s body, and when Gus Blake is possessed by demonic powers and imprisons Lukasz’s soul within another dimension, her powers are bestowed upon babysitter Lauren Sherwood, who retains them even after her predecessor is restored to normal. Leaving Lauren as the new Mantra, Lukasz, by now fully accepting the identity of Eden Blake, moves from Los Angeles to San Francisco with Evie to be near Gus, who is in Aladdin custody. No other information on the Blakes’ fate is known.

Mantra had magical abilities that she could utilize for a variety of effects, including mystic blasts and flight. She could revitalize her energy via the chant “change…growth…power.” She also wielded the mystic Sword of Fangs and wore a cloak that served as a portal to a pocket dimension which contained various artifacts and people collected by Archimage over the centuries.

Mantra’s transgendered nature is revealed in Mantra #1. As a reincarnated soul, Lukasz had many roles and occupations; the most notable being a warrior and government agent.

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Amazon/ Man-Killer

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Contributed by Ronald Byrd

Katrina Luisa Van Horn, who sometimes used the simple alias Wilma,  was a European Olympic-class skier who was crippled in an accident when a male skier deliberately attempted to sabotage her performance. Restored to health and given an augmenting exoskeleton by the criminal scientists of AIM, Van Horn began a new career as the terrorist called the Man-Killer.

Following her initial clash with Spider-Man and the feminist heroine the Cat, the Man-Killer finds employment first at the subversive organization HYDRA, where she clashes with Daredevil, and then with industrialist Justin Hammer as part of a task force sent to battle Iron Man. Returning to her roots as a “militant feminist,” she led a band of female terrorists called the Women Warriors against Spider-Man and She-Hulk, only to apparently be electrocuted. However, her exoskeleton apparently protected her from death, since she is next seen as a member of the second Crimson Cowl’s Masters of Evil, in which capacity she battles the Thunderbolts, themselves former members of an earlier incarnation of the Masters. When these efforts also fail, she abandons the Cowl and lies low as Wilma the bartender, but she eventually returns to the criminal life, only to consider reformation as a member of a new team led by Hawkeye, in which she changes her alias to “Amazon.”

As a rather stereo-typical example of 1970s concept of “militant feminism” in her earlier appearances (contrasted by such feminist heroines as the Cat and the She-Hulk), the Man-Killer was initially quite unstable, harboring an insane hatred of men, and she might well have been identified as a lesbian if the comic books of the time had permitted such identification which would have made her even more of a stereotype. She appears to have mellowed somewhat over the years to the extent that she seems capable of forging friendships with men; however, when the Thunderbolt Atlas became attracted to her and attempted to persuade her to reform with the Thunderbolts, she disdainfully rejects both ideas, noting that “I call myself Man-Killer—how do you think I really feel about you?” This exchange is inconclusive, but it is at least suggestive. More so is an exchange in Thunderbolts #71: when fellow Masters of Evil alumnus Cyclone, referring to Amazon’s willingness to aid the heroic Hawkeye, remarks that “one more goes to the other side” (i.e. “good” instead of “evil”), Amazon responds “I was born on that side,” implying that she interpreted the remark in a different way.

As Man-Killer, she formerly wore an exoskeleton granting her superhuman strength and resistance to injury, and she was in top physical condition even without it; she has subsequently demonstrated super-strength and resistance while not wearing the exoskeleton, indicating that prolonged use of it (or perhaps being nearly electrocuted while wearing it) somehow transferred its abilities to her personally.

Amazon makes her first appearance in Marvel Team-Up #8 and is confirmed as lesbian in Thunderbolts #42 and #71.

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Cannon & Saber

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Contributed by MikiShawn

Marshall Saber and Henry Cannon had a passion for murder, and each other. Clad in a green uniform, the red-haired Saber was an expert marksman, an assassin for a New York City mobster named Leibowitz. Cannon hid his Moe Howard haircut in a dark blue body suit, offset by a yellow robe, gloves and boots and was a blade master in the service of the Rinaldi Mob. The men decided a career move was in order and each murdered the other’s boss. They did so on the orders of a woman within the District Attorney’s office who vowed to consolidate Manhattan’s gangs under her control. Saber had thrown down his rifle almost without a fight when he encountered the Vigilante while Cannon simply surrendered to the police. They did so knowing that D.A. Marcia King would “put in an application for both assassins with the Government Witness Relocation Program” and set them free.

Appalled that the duo was literally getting away with murder, the Vigilante raided their apartment and quickly found himself outmatched. Brought down by successive knife and bullet wounds, the Vigilante might well have been shot to death by Saber had it not been for the intervention of another concerned citizen — the Electrocutioner. Arriving on the scene, the police found three unconscious gunmen — the Vigilante and the electrocuted but still breathing Cannon and Saber (Vigilante # 5, by Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard and Romeo Tanghal).

In a rather ludicrous scene, the couple escaped the hospital after Cannon threw a lightweight plastic knife at CaptainArthur Hall. Instead of falling to the ground, as it would have in the real world, the knife slashed Hall’s throat (# 7). The assassins took their services to the West Coast. It was at their Malibu beach house that they accepted a contract to kill the Vigilante (# 35).

By now, the mantle of the Vigilante had passed from Adrian Chase to Alan Welles to Dave Winston. Despite his unfamiliarity with the duo, Winston held his own and managed to get a shot off at Saber, wounding him seriously enough for Cannon to abandon the battle and flee. In the course of the conflict, the men had revealed their client’s Long Island address and, with Saber recovered, they raced to the scene to salvage their reputation. In the end, Vigilante maneuvered them into striking each other: Saber took a blade to the shoulder and Cannon was felled by a bullet in the abdomen (1986′s Vigilante Annual # 2, by Paul Kupperberg, Ross Andru and Tony DeZuniga, with edits by Wolfman).

Cannon and Saber were slated to return in 1989′s Manhunter # 10, which would have introduced a gay supporting cast member named Vince Nuncioin into the series. As described by co-writer John Ostrander in Amazing Heroes # 145, “Mark Shaw was cellmates with him in prison. In prison, as on the streets, if you need something, he’ll arrange it.” According to AH # 157, the episode had “already scared a couple of artists off” and, with Manhunter’s cancellation in early 1990, the story’s completion became a moot point.

Both show a high proficiency for hand to hand combat. Saber has an almost instinctive ability to aim quickly and accurately firearms. Cannon’s affinity is for using edged objects as weapons, ranging from playing cards to throwing knives.

Cannon and Saber were confirmed as gay and a couple in Vigilante #5

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Arnold Astrovik

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Contributed by Ronald Byrd

Arnold Astrovik was the father of Vance Astrovik, the mutant super-hero initially known as Marvel Boy and later called Justice. When Vance’s mutant powers first appear, Arnold, outraged that his son is a “freak,” beats him to discourage their use. The abuse continues until Vance, by now a member of the heroic New Warriors (a further source of anger to Arnold), finally lashes out with his telekinesis, accidentally killing his father. Vance is found guilty of negligent homicide and spends some time in the superhuman prison known as the Vault before returning to action. Some time later, when the New Warriors are cast back into various periods of the past, Justice encounters his father as a teenager thirty years ago in Queens, New York. Justice is startled to discover that the teen Arnold is gay and in love with a young man named Bradley, for which his father Jerry berates and beats him, and he realizes that it was his father’s own self-loathing and resentment that led to their antagonism, Arnold beating him not only for his mutantness just as his own father beat him for his homosexuality, but because Vance succeeded in “deviating from the norm” where Arnold had failed. Despite the risk of erasing his own existence, Justice urges Arnold to follow his heart and tries to convince Jerry to accept his son as he is, but to no avail. The young Arnold turns his back on his potential new life, dooming himself to repeat the cycle of abuse that will ultimately result in his own death. Justice vows to prevent such problems from plaguing other young children when he returns to the present, but how or whether he pursued that goal upon his return is unrevealed.

Arnold worked as an accountant in the family’s home town of Saugerties, New York. Vance learned that his father was a closeted homosexual in New Warriors #48.

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Dr Occult & Rose Psychic

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Dr. Occult is one of DC Comics oldest characters. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, he first appeared as trenchcoated private investigator in New Fun Comics #6 in 1935 and appeared in his own strip until 1938, and was forgotten about until Roy Thomas resurrected him in 1985 in the pages of All Star Squadron.

During the run of the strip, set in an unnamed American city, Dr. Occult assisted Detective Ellsworth with cases involving the paranormal. The Doctor’s butler, Jenkins sometimes helped out. Jenkins was then replaced by love interest Rose Psychic. She also possessed mystical abilities. Dr. Occult went up against vampires, ghosts, zombies, and evil scientists whose methods were supernatural, or appeared to be as such.

A group of mystics, simply called The Seven, became part of Dr. Occult’s backstory during the strip’s run as well. At one point this group gave a costume to Occult, and he became the Golden Age’s first costumed hero. For whatever reason, the costume idea was abandoned and he returned to wearing a shirt, tie, trench coat and hat. Part of Occult’s and Rose’s history is retconned by Roy Thomas in his effort to update the characters. In the revision, The Seven raise Occult and Rose during their childhood.

The characters were next used by Neil Gaiman in his Books of Magic mini series of 1991. Dr. Occult, Phantom Stranger, John Constantine, and Mr. E act as guides who introduce a twelve year old Tim Hunter to the world of magic. In issue three, Dr. Occult and Tim journey to the land of Faerie, and it’s at this point that we first see Occult and Rose (also called Rose Spiritus) switch places with one another. Rose explains to a startled Tim that she and Occult are aspects of anima and animus, and that certain things become easier for the anima. For many LGBT people there are masculine and feminine sides to their personalities, or they may choose to emphasize one aspect over another. In this respect I think Occult and Rose speak to the experience of being queer. Rose proves to be a capable guide for Tim, leading him through the Faerie market where one of its unsavory denizens tries to take advantage of Tim, and then through a sea of blood. Rose exchanges places with Dr. Occult when they stumble upon Maugys, a giant charged with guarding the cave entrance leading to the resting place of the king sleeping beneath the hill. Watching over the sleeping king is the minstrel Thomas who eyes Dr. Occult and recounts the memory of having been intimate with Rose “beneath the stars on a bed of cut bracken.” Occult replies that he doubts it happened, shortly after which he and Tim leave through a blackened tunnel, and become separated. Upon exiting, Tim sees Dr. Occult standing near an unassuming cottage, and runs to his side. In reality, it’s the witch Baba Yega disguised as Occult, and she quickly snatches Tim for her soup pot. It takes a resolute and threatening Rose to intimidate Baba Yega to release Tim. They continue on their journey till encountering Queen Titania, who requests their presence at her palace. There, Titania tricks Tim into accepting a gift, a custom which does not allow for refusal and must be returned in kind or Tim will be forced to serve Titania. The Queen’s gift is a key that unlocks a door to other realms, which Dr. Occult guides him. Upon returning to Faerie, Occult aids Tim in eluding Titania’s servitude, and they return to the real world.

Stories written after the Books of Magic mini series continued the idea of Dr. Occult and Rose being one. The Return of the Justice Society mini series, which I have not yet pulled from my collection, states that Occult was killed by a magical being and Rose joined their spirits in order to save him.

The Who’s Who entry lists several mystical abilities in addition to the Doctor’s keen, analytical mind. Included in the list are: using the astral plane to rapidly move between locations on Earth; transporting a second person in like manner; rendering himself invisible by shifting his body to an astral form; a form of hypnosis or mind control; create illusions; and telekinesis. According to the entry, Rose has the same abilities except illusion casting and telekinesis.

Occult also carried a small, magical device resembling an encircled cross. It offered protection from some forms of natural energy, and would repel or even exorcise supernatural creatures. It credits him with inventing a “Cerebro” like device to pinpoint evil thoughts. Rounding out his arsenal of magical devices is a sword with unknown magical powers, and a belt with various buttons. Pressing one allowed him to fly. Push another button and people turned to stone. These were gifts from The Seven. None of these devices were evident or alluded to in the Books of Magic.

Dr. Occult first appeared in More Fun Comics # 6. Rose Psychic’s first appearance is in More Fun Comics #19. Neil Gaiman presented them in such a manner that may be thought of as transgendered in Books of Magic #3. The name Richard Occult is an alias. The characters are afffiliated with Sentinels of Magic, The Seven, All Star Squadron.

This bio is based in part on the character’s Toonopedia entry, and the 1985 Who’s Who entry.

Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. © and ® DC Comics. Used without permission.

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Catastrophe Jen

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Art by John Severin

Contributed by Michael McDermott

Catastrophe Jen became a member of Cisco Pike’s gang of theives and outlaws. She was also one of the most aggresive and deadliest members of the gang, and was easily capable of holding her own with any of the men. She also had no patience for sexual advances from the men, and she would kill any man who attempted to flirt with her. She was with his gang when they attempted to raid a town that was under the protection of the Rawhide Kid, a gunfighter hero of the Wild West.

The Rawhide Kid and Sheriff Matt Morgan were able to stop the outlaws, but Jen apparently survived the fight, unlike most of Pike’s gang. She was last seen attending the sheriff’s wedding, with a girlfriend on her arm, and a deputy’s badge on her chest.

It looks as if Jen was recruited to become the town’s new deputy after Rawhide left. How that came about is unrevealed.

Catastrophe Jen first appears in #2 of the controversial Rawhide Kid “Slap Leather” mini series.

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Sworn #1

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Writer C. J. Evans
Artist Silvano
Class Comics
$7.99 (less if ordered through the Class website)

Superheroes. Spandex. Sex. Those are the 3 “S’s” of many a gay man’s interest in comics. Take those elements and throw into the mix a couple first time heroes who happen to be the sons of two hot superhero dads (AKA SHDILF) who’re also sworn enemies and their respective teams and you’ve got the foundation for Sworn, one of the latest erotic comics from Class.

Writer Evans’ story focuses on two young protaganists: the dark haired, doe-eyed, innocent twink Calais and the tatted, red head skater bad boi Slammer whose family comes from the school of hard knocks. Evans opens with a traditional face off between the senior heroes and villains banging each other with fists and ray beams before each team’s most junior member come rushing in to trade blows and banter with the other. When Slammer takes off, daddy Argonaut (is there some sexual tension there between Argonaut and his opposite number Frac?) orders his son Calais to track down and bring him in.

Calais very much wants to prove himself and literally throws himself at Slammer in mid-flight, the pair crashing to the ground. What happens next is something you’ll never see happen to a male character in a superhero comic. Slammer’s costume has been literally ripped to shreds to expose his hairy loins and uncut manhood. Sure, it seems gratuitous, and Evans could play it for laughs or jump right to sex, but he holds off. His dialog and Silvano’s art infuse the characters with emotions ranging from anger, embarrassment, and gratitude for Slammer to pride, sympathy, in Calais. Well-intentioned if not exactly sensible, Calais offers to bring Slammer back to the Saviors’ phallic tower headquarters to fetch some spare clothes for the naked hottie. Compassion soon gives way to questioning eyes, roaming hands, and hot sex as Slammer seduces and guides pristine Calais in his first sexual experience. Slammer assures Calais he’s a natural in mid-air acrobatics just before they’re nearly discovered by silver daddy Argonaut and the rest of the Saviors. While Slammer escapes to plan a rescue of his team, Calais wonders what the feelings welling up in him are while realizing he may have betrayed his father and team.

Sworn is several notches above the typical erotic comic, which is not to say that others don’t accomplish their goal. To get my undivided attention an erotic comic has to hook more than just my libido. Evans does that by rising above the standard tropes of both fisticuffs and fuck scenes by giving emotional depth to Slammer and Calais. We’re not talking a classical literature benchmark here, but the range of expressions are very believable. Silvano’s style is dynamic and expressive. He’s very adept at conveying body language and  bringing Evans’ emotional cues to life. Like body hair? While not as hairy as bears or otters, these guys sport a good amount, including a hairy spot in the small of the back, a detail I appreciate very much. And yes, Silvano draws eye popping, groin throbbing naked bodies solo and together engaged in sex.

Are this spandex bursting gay “Romeo and Juliet” couple destined for love or a doomed relationship? I’m rooting for another chapter, the sooner the better, and turgid scene with SHDILF Argonaut and Frac. I’ll point you to the Sworn mini site for a 5 page preview in case you think my review may be biased.

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Maggie Sawyer

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Art by J H Williams III

Maggie began her career in Star City, and was married to Captain Jim Sawyer (Superman #15). After their marriage dissolved, Maggie moved east to Metropolis’ Police Department. Because of her performance in helping stop an Apokolips agent named Kalibak rampaging in Metropolis, Dan Turpin recommended she lead the S.C.U. She was promoted to Inspector after Doomsday destroyed Metropolis (Adventures of Superman  #505). Barrage is a particular enemy of hers, since he blames her for the loss of his arm. She was a good friend of Lois Lane, who once trained with the SCU. Maggie has a daughter, Jamie, whom Superman rescued from the evil Skyhook.

In her personal life, Maggie was in a relationship with Toby Raines, a reporter for a rival newspaper in Metropolis. In Detective Comics #764 writer Greg Rucka transplants Maggie from Metropolis and its Special Crimes Unit to Gotham City to replace Lt. Harvey Bullock who’s resigned. Maggie is shown unloading boxes into a new apartment while talking with her lover, Toby, who is still in Metropolis. By the end of the story, Toby tells Maggie that she’ll be delayed at joining her in Gotham because a gallery had just given her a full exhibition.

Sawyer’s character appeared in the ensemble cast of Gotham Central where she became police captain. She interacted several times with Renée Montoya , then a detective, before the series ended as Montoya’s alcoholism caused the breakup of her relationship with Dee Hernandez and resignation from the force. Sawyer checked in on Montoya a couple times during her transformation from former police detective and alcoholic into the Question.

Sawyer’s most recent appearance is in Detective #856. She’s working security (though dressed in a man’s tux) at a Gotham social event and decides to approach Kate (Batwoman) Kane, also wearing a tux, to ask for a dance. In the small talk that follows, we learn that Maggie and Toby have recently ended their long distance relationship, leaving Sawyer free to lavish attention on Kate.

Maggie Sawyer was created by John Byrne and first appeared in Superman #4, vol 2, which was printed a year or so before the Comics Code Authority dropped its prohibition against LGBT characters.

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Hazel & Foxglove

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Contributed by Ronald Byrd

Shortly after moving to New York to become a chef, Hazel McNamara was introduced to Donna (Foxglove) Cavanagh by Hazel’s brother, Johnny, who met Donna in a writer’s workshop. Hazel fell in love at first sight (“It was utterly like, Hi, whoever you are, I want to be with you for ever.”) with Donna, who was in a depression over the death of Judy, her abusive ex-girlfriend. Some time after this, Donna, wanting to set her old life with Judy behind her, changes her name to Foxglove, and she and Hazel become lovers. Little else is known about their past save that Hazel is originally from Vermont and that Foxglove came out to her “psycho mom” when she was sixteen; Foxglove is apparently a Pagan, since she has stated that she worships a Goddess.

Comic book readers first meet the pair when they are drawn into a mystic drama surrounding a woman named Barbie, who lives in their apartment building and whose spirit is drawn into a magical dreamland. Although they accompany another fellow tenant, the centuries-old sorceress Thessaly, into Barbie’s dream, where the situation is ultimately resolved by the mystic entity known as the Sandman, Hazel and Foxglove play no real role in the unfolding conflict, instead experiencing a more personal crisis when Foxglove learns that Hazel is pregnant from a one-night stand with a male co-worker; Foxglove is furious but does not reject Hazel for the infidelity. When a mystic storm destroys their apartment building (killing Barbie’s best friend, transvestite Wanda (nee Alvin) Mann, who was guarding Barbara’s mortal body) in the adventure’s aftermath, the couple move in with Hazel’s mother, and (as seen in Death: The High Cost of Living) Foxglove begins a singing career that results in a record contract shortly after Hazel gives birth to a son, Alvie (evidently named after their deceased friend). The three move to Los Angeles, where Fox’s rising success, during which she is advised not to come out to her audience but has several flings with other women, creates a rift between her and Hazel, but the two are reconciled and reaffirm their love after an encounter with the Sandman’s sibling, Death (in Death: The Time of Your Life). Foxglove is outed by her French paramour Veronique talking to Damsels Magazine, and her career briefly peaks, but she withdraws from the music world. Her disappearance is so notable that The World Weekly News later reports her doing gigs with Buddy Holly, which Foxglove claims makes her “more a legend. Or a dream” than a celebrity. She relocates to suburbia with her spouse and their child, where they are at last report living happily ever after.

Hazel and Foxglove first appear in Sandman #32 (A Game of You arc) and reprinted in Sandman: A Game of You tpb. Created by Neil Gaiman.

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Jack Phantom

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Art by Gene Ha

Art by Gene Ha

Contributed by Ronald Byrd.

Jack Phantom (real name: Jackie Kowalski, AKA Jacks) is a police detective at the Tenth Precinct of Neopolis, a city inhabited by a wide variety of superhuman beings. To date, nothing has been revealed about her origin, history, or private life. So far she has not been seen to experience any homophobia at the precinct. The only officer who seems to have any problem getting along with her is Officer Jeff Smax, who really doesn’t get along with much of anybody (and who, based on a dream he has in #6, appears to have a bit of sexual interest in her). However, she does express appreciation to another officer, Duane Bodine, a.k.a. the Dust Devil, for being her partner during a case, suggesting that others have been less than enthusiastic about doing so. She frequently works alongside another high-ranking female officer, Lt. Cathy Colby, a.k.a. the Peregrine who, although a “born-again Christian,” has demonstrated no hostility toward the lesbian Jack. Jack and the Dust Devil appear to have a level of camaraderie, and he has admitted to finding her attractive but accepts being “just friends.” Although most of Top Ten’s officers dress in costume, Jack’s attire is a body-blouse and jacket, not unlike a stylized tuxedo. To date she has appeared in every issue of Top Ten except #2 and #6 (where, as noted, she was seen in Smax’s dream). Her preferred brand of coffee is regular expresso.

Jack Phantom is not currently in a relationship and jokes that she has little luck in finding women. When Officer Robyn Slinger, a.k.a. Toybox, starts work at the Tenth Precinct, Jack invites her out for a beer and shows some friendly interest in her, only to be rebuffed by the nervous newcomer. Later, she seems attracted to pathologist Dr. Sally-Jo Jessell, a.k.a. Micromaid. She has also admitted to being attracted toPeregrine, although she knows she has no chance with the married straight woman, and at one point she makes a remark suggesting she has a crush on actress Joan Crawford.

Jack is one of the officers who captures M’rrgla Qualtz, the so-called Vigilante of Venus, an extraterrestrial heroine turned porn star who is believed to be responsible for several serial killings; is listed as the arresting officer. Once in custody, the telepathic Qualtz, for unknown reasons, transmits an image of herself and Jack as lovers, a mental violation which enrages Jack. Qualtz’s former teammates have challenged her arrest, and what role Jack Phantom will play as the case unfolds remains to be seen.

Jack Phantom can become intangible at will. In this state she can pass through solid matter and is immune to physical attack. She becomes semi-transparent when using her power and occasionally remains so in her day-to-day activities. While in this state her voice may have an unusual sound, inasmuch as her word balloons also take on a faintly faded appearance. She has been seen floating through the floor of a room to the room below, but this does not appear to indicate any actual ability to fly.

Jack Phantom first appears and is confirmed as a lesbian in Top Ten #1.

Created by Alan Moore and Gene Ha. © and ® America’s Best Comics, LLC. Used without permission.

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