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aka Firebrand. Wanted to do a heroine from an earlier era.Related content
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Surprised you found this render. I think it's the only one I have ever done of her.
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I was looking online for images of Firebrand and Firestar for this Photomanip I was doing.
The original scene had the Human Torch and Toro being captured but I thought it looked better with these two fiery heroines.
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I can't wondering if Firestar inspired DC to add a fiery heroine like Firebrand to the All-Star Squadron. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends debuted in 1981, and Firebrand showed up two years later.
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I think the group needed more heroines especially since they tried not to use the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
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That is so true, but they didn't have many options. Firebrand 2 and to be created for the team. Liberty Belle was an obscure Golden Age Character that DC remembered and added to the team. Hawkgirl was part of the Hawkman's comics and due to the initial directive from DC that the Justice Society characters weren't suppose to be used (thankfully reversed). Phantom Lady, cousin of Starman eventually showed up. Miss America (Joan Dale) showed up as a member of Uncle Sam's Freedom Fighters only to be killed off in one panel. And Black Canary didn't show up in the comics until 1949. They did created Tsunami, a Japanese American villain who later joined the Young All Stars.
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Well most Golden Age comics and heroes are very male centric.
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That's certainly true, but there were a number of superheroes back then. Diana the Huntress was the actual Olympian Goddess who came down to Earth to fight the Nazis. USA was a Supernatural Superhero who also fought the Axis for six issues but her lack of a secret identity limited the stories.
Black Cat from Harvey Comics was probably the best next to Wonder Woman. Linda Turner was a stunt woman turned movie star who fought spies and criminals in Hollywood, sometimes aided by her adopted ward Kit Weston, who much like Dick Grayson was a circus acrobat whose parents were killed. He became the Black Kitten. Makes me wish there was a crossover with Catman and Kitten.
Mary Marvel was one of the more powerful heroines, but of course could be made helpless by gagging her, and seemed to be easy to knock out by a blow to the head. Her adventures were pretty light hearted, but she was always getting tied up and gagged in them.
She was created by Otto Binder who also created Miss America (from Timely/Marvel) and Supergirl.
Miss America was Madeline Joyce, a debutante who got her powers after accidentally being hit by a bolt of energy from her inventor uncle's lab. She had superhuman strength, flight, x-ray vision, and a genius level intellect. Of course like all heroes she could be knocked out if you hit her in the back of the head. Later in her stories she began to wear glasses. Marvel brought the character back in the 1970s as part of The Invaders, which was set in World War Two. In those stories she only had the power of flight.
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Yes but how many male heroes were there?
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I would guess a couple of hundred. Some would be one shots who never had a second story. Some like The Clock would exist for a few years then be forgotten, and then be brought back in the 1990s. His character, Brian O'Brien, was in The Protectors comic book as the President of the United States.
It's the magic of Public Domain.
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And lots of time... You must have read a lot of those public domain comics.
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I got The Protectors source book with profiles of the team members and their enemies, and they had a short history of their superhero universe. After that I checked out some of The Clock's stories. Pretty standard mystery man stuff with subpar art.
Comicbookplus.com is an excellent resource. They even had the old time radio shows on the site.
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Way too much sometimes. Depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for knockout scenes in comics there is sleepycomics.com.
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Not too many golden age comics at that site though.
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Danette Reilly(aka Firebrand) was really a woman AHEAD of her time. Not only did she successfully insist on being allowed to join the All Star Squadron( as her brother would have been, even though he possessed no super powers of his own as she did), but she supported Will Everett's application to join the squadron(making the Squadron the first fully integrated superhero team LONG before civil rights for African Americans became fashionable)! I particularly like her wearing a bathing suit under her top, as she wryly observed, her costume was NOT intended for a woman in mind!
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I would have preferred a skimpier costume though
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And in addition to be wealthy she was also a Vulcanologist.
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Forgot how she obtained her powers. Most of the DC Golden Age heroes and heroines have been relegated to non-appearances.
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She was hit by a bolt of magic energy by Wotan, and fell into a lava flow. The combination gave her fire control powers. Originally they wanted to use the Quality comic character Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin) which DC owned the rights to. However they didn't want anyone to confused the Legion of Superheroes' Wildfire with her, so they created Danette, sister of Rod Reilly, and had her take his Firebrand identity after he was wounded at Pearl Harb
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I'm kind of a comic historian, and I loved the character. I'm also a fan of Wildfire's as well. She was in Quality's Smash Comics from issues 25 to 37. You cam read them for free at comicbookplus.com
Wildfire did have a small cameo in the DC Elseworlds mini-series The Golden Age issue 4.
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Thanks for the tip. The bangs on her hair are interesting.
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I think that Poppy Montgomery would have made an excellent Wildfire.
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Wildfire has an interesting backstory. When Carol Vance was young her parents were killed by a forest fire. The spirit of fire found that Carol wasn't afraid of fire, and granted her powers. She was then adopted by the wealthy Martin family and decided to use her powers against spies and criminals. She could control fire, from a shield made of fire, throw balls of fire, fly, and had superhuman strength (she once lifted and threw an armored car.) Most of her enemies were non-costumed criminals, but there was a one time supervillain named The Frog. He had a couple of his men chloroform Wildfire, but then had her but in a furnace to get rid of her, which was like throwing Aquaman in the sea to drown him.
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Guess The Frog was not smartest supervillain
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Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot. At least he was able to capture her. And even Wonder Woman got captured by ever villain she faced in the Golden Age.
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Well, he is a cultural icon.
Excellent work on Wildfire. You are really talented.
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The All-Star Squadron was the thing that gave me a love for WWII history and Firebrand was an integral part of that series... I never realized that she didn't wear conventional boots until I read the comments here and then went exploring the www and my comic scans. Funny how you over-look somethings w/o even trying.
I'd love to see more of the lasses from the All-Star Squadron when you have time.
Thank-you,
Anthony
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The All-star Squadron did not have too many heroines
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Originally Liberty Belle and Firebrand. Phantom Girl and Hawkgirl took part in missions later on.
Sandra Knight and Danette Reilly switched costumes for Halloween. Hawkgirl backed up Liberty Belle and showed herself to be more then just a "Winged Debutante."
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The Halloween issue had Night and Fog as enemies.
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Night and Fog were based on the Night and Fog decree signed by Hitler on Dec. 7, 1941. All those the Nazis decided were enemies were to disappear and be imprisoned or executed.
Roy Thomas the writer of the All-Star Squadron used the comic to retroactively explain the inconsistencies between the Golden Age Justice League comics and real world events. All Star Comic 8 for example had most of the Justice League join the Military and enter the war. Wonder Woman stopped an invasion of the Philippines, Sandman captured an Aircraft Carrier, Hawkman stopped an invasion of San Francisco, etc.. In the All-Star Comics version they were all experiencing illusions from the villain Brainwave, and he trapped them in an illusion of them being killed by the Japanese military. The All-Star Squadron and Green Lantern were attacked the same way, and only Green Lantern managed to defeat the illusion through his willpower, resulting in a rather traumatic illusion foreshadowing Hiroshima.
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i have a good memory, an interest in World War Two, The hard cover All Star Comic 8 Reprint, and the entire All-Star Squadron collection.
The best issues of were part of the annual Justice League/Justice Society meaning. Per Degaton recruits the Crime Syndicate of America to steal the Soviet Missiles used in our World's Cuban Missile Crisis causing a nuclear war. It's up to the Justice League, Justice Society, and All-Star Squadron to prevent those missiles from being used to take over Earth 2, and restore the timeline.
Infinity Inc., a group made up of the children of the Justice Society debuted in a time travel episode of the All-Star Squadron before their comic was introduced. They were later retconnned out of existence by the Crisis on Infinite Earths a couple of years later.
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The entire All-Star Squadron collection - that's a decent number of comics.
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Sixty Seven Issues, plus the three Justice League issues with the crossover story. I used the have the Infinity Inc. tie in as well.
Most of my comics are from 20 or 30 years ago. I also have the Image Comic run of Big Bang Comics, and the video they put out.
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My only contact with Firebrand in the comics was the first issue of "Crisis". She was there, as one of the first heroines.
I also remember her as the prototype for Red Tornado, that T.O. Morrow built to be a heroine. I liked that episode of "Young Justice" T.O. Morrow built a second android—Firebrand —but her heroic personality wounded up getting herself killed in an attempt on Jay Garrick 's life.
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Yup but Firebrand was featured in All Star Squadron
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Cool! No, wait... Hot!
I really like the colour combination. Though I think she could use some boots...
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Gotta disagree! She needs no drinking boots! 😁
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