Here, Mawa is given a curare injection so she can be displayed as a circus sideshow attraction..sorry the scans are so small. Source: blog

Mawa gets ko'd from behind by white hunters, who leave her to be killed by one of their native porters.. The jungle girl revives, however, and convinces the native to free her so she can stop their evil plans... Source: blog

Mawa tries to escape a tribe of Amazons by taking a hostage..the plan backfires when they are dropped through the floor, and wind up unconcious... When she comes to, she's being drawn and quartered by elephants...but is rescured by her faithful pet jaguars. Source: blog

Khana and her friend are overcome by gas and abducted by robots. Source: blog

Mawa, South America's favorite jungle girl, faints for reasons unknown...nice panel. Source: blog

Khanda, an Amazon warrior gets k.o.'d by a bear...her traveling companions save her...nice unconcious cover. Source: blog

Ah, the 80's.. skinny ties; Duran Duran; more b@w indie comics than you could shake a stick at! This is a character named "Desert Fox" , penciled by a pre-fame $ fortune Jim Ballent for Eternity Comics circa 1988. As far as I can tell, this was her only adventure... Source: Comicsworld

Black Alice is sent into a cult sect of Brother Blood to find out information about a young man who was abducted into their church. But she blows her cover fairly quickly and promptly chloroformed. They put her on a the dais and plan to make her the next sacrifice.

While Fiction House's post-war output gets more attention, some of their WWII-era work is equally great. Here, Camilla is having a bad day at the office.. In six pages, she gets drugged, tied-up, hit on the head, carried off by a pteradactl, carried off by a caveman and chased by a T-Rex... Thanks to GCAD..back up(y...

Woman in Red appeared in Thrilling Comics from #2 in 1940 and continued without interruption to #38 when she was discontinued. Her floor length red cloak kept us from seeing how sexy she might be, but she had many adventures in which she was KO'd, arm carried and tied up. Her early pre-WWII origin may make her the fi...

Miss Masque appeared in America's Best Comics from issue #23 to #31. Like so many other great looking masked super-heroines, her sales went into decline after WW II ended and all the soldiers came home from the battlefield. Also Fred Wertham's Congressional crusade against good girl art put this genre under great pub...

Velvet had several appearances in the 90's. This issue is only one of at least 6 mini-series she appeared in, not all by the same publisher either. Malibu Publications did this particular mini-series. I don't really know if this style of art qualifies as "Manga" but it is not my favorite by no means. Still, I think ...

Issue #31 was the final edition of America's Best Comics published in 1948. Miss Masque appeared from #23 to the final issue. In this story a Kentucky Derby jockey and a horse trainer become greedy and want to steal the derby winning horse from its owner. They murder the owner, making it look like an accident, but M...

Ms. Mystic alerts the Shaman to the Rise of Magic (a lame storyline that pretty much closed the company) but is injured, possibly from crashing through his ceiling..anyway, he heals her, and they both go off to fight the demonic entities.. Source: Comicsworld

Ms. Mystic fights her old enemy Darrow, who gets the drop on her by draining her earth energy. She recovers and lays a smackdown on him and his android army. Source: Comicsworld

Ms. Mystic is blasted by a laser cannon of some sort. Source: Comicsworld

Cover shot of Storm unconscious in rubble

Ms. Mystic is stunned after being sideswiped by a prehistoric creature. She is rescued by a deformed mutant, and found by her love interest. Source: Comicsworld

Red Sonja wakes up with a nice eye roll on an island. After she meets an inhabitant, he gives her a drugged drink after which she wakes up in his prison.

After chopping of the head of her enemy, Red Sonja faints from her wounds. Some big ogre rescues her and fixes her leg. She is in bondage on the cover.