Number 2076: Jungle Girl, the Good

We begin a theme week featuring comic book females of the forties and fifties. I have titled the theme, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ditzy.” Appropriately enough, we begin the week with the Good, Leopard Girl, a short-lived character coming out of Atlas Comics in 1954-55. Gwen, no other name given, dresses as a leopard in a full-body costume to hide her identity as a typist in the jungle working for an old man doing research.

The full-body costume is different from the usual jungle girl togs, which are as brief as possible. The jungle being hot, I am surprised Leopard Girl can stand being in costume for long periods of time. Must be why her stories never exceeded six pages. And those six pages were in the six issues of .Jungle Action, after which she appeared no more. Perhaps Gwen got heat exhaustion.

The story is by Don Rico, who also wrote Lorna, another of Atlas’s jungle girls. The art is by Al Hartley, who drew some very pretty girls, jungle and otherwise, in this period of his long comic book career.

From Jungle Action #2 (1954):

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