[Anthony Durrant]

A new Phantom Lady recently appeared in the series UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

[Anthony Durrant]

I think that might be a new Blockbuster.

[Anthony Durrant]

No, I do not have a picture of the woman at this moment, because we do not have a scanner attached to our new Dell computer as yet.  However, I can tell you that the lady's name is Boforce, and that the illustrator for the STORM comic strip was none other than the late British artist Don Lawrence, who had previously illustrated the strip THE TRIGAN EMPIRE.

[Anthony Durrant]

Madamoiselle Ani's picture appears in PUMPING IRON II: THE UNPRECEDENTED WOMAN.  As mentioned in the original entry, the photograph is blurred, but the Madamoiselle can be seen facing the camera and flexing her biceps.  She has short, curly hair done up in ringlets, and she is wearing a leotard with tiny flowers visible on the front; her hair appears to be dark.

[Anthony Durrant]

Tygra's copyright owner was a company known variously as Nedor, Better, and Standard – in that order.  Nedor/Better/Standard went out of business in the mid-nineteen fifties, so Tygra would be in the public domain now (the statute of limitation on copyright at the time being 27 years).

[Anthony Durrant]

This forum is a mess!  All the entries are mixed up past page 21 of the FANDOM AND NERD STUFF section until you get back to page one.

[Anthony Durrant]

I made a couple of mistakes in the original e-mail, the first being that in her debut story, Tygra is referred to as TYGRA OF THE FLAME PEOPLE.  The second is that I forgot to mention that after throwing the lion aside – and being attacked by the Flame Peope – Tygra discovers that the "beef extract" she drank the previous night was actually the Autorene!

[Anthony Durrant]

My mistake, the url is actually http://www.tgfa.org!

[Anthony Durrant]

There is a very excellent series of pages from that particular comic at http://www.tgfa.com.

[Anthony Durrant]

Why, that's the issue that I have – the one that I mentioned in my earlier posting to this topic.  That one-off comic was actually written as a tribute to Marc Gruenwald, who had suddenly died of a heart attack earlier in the year, and it has a memorial to him on the last page of the story, where Brunnhilde and Tommy are riding off on her flying steed Aragorn.

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