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FEMFORCE #19

COVER: Greg Horn / John Dell

EDITORIAL CONTENT: Article on the Golden Age characters in the Vault of Heroes.

MILESTONES: 1st awakenings from the Vault of Heroes; 1st meeting of the Vault heroes and the Femforce, return of the Black Shroud; Nightveil and the Avenger discover they are brother and sister

1st Story: The Dark Return (23 pgs)

Credits:
Bill Black, story / edits; Greg Horn, pencils: John Dell III, inks; Walt Paisley, letters; Rebekah Black, tones

Synopsis:
Tara is jarred awake from a horrifying nightmare and goes to a penthouse society party with her father. On the rooftop, she rescues Jet-Girl, whose jet pack fuel was exhausted after a flight in panic from the Weir asylum in upstate New York. Awakened from the Vault in a confused and disoriented state, Pat had seen her partner Rocketman's apparently lifeless body and fled in terror from the Asylum. While Tara offers the services of the Femforce, Weir is activating more sleeping heroes to assist in bringing Jet-Girl back to the asylum. Later, as Jet-Girl tells the rest of the Femforce her story, the Green Lama, Captain Flash, The Avenger, and Catman arrive at FF HQ in the Avenger's Starjet and demand that Jet-Girl be turned over to them. When the FF refuse, an inevitable clash occurs. The Femforce are soon joined by Thunderfox and by Stardust, who puts a stop to the battle after speaking with, Dr. Weir, who has just arrived in Orlando with the revived Rocketman. Dr. Weir then tells the assembled heroes that his mystical Purple Claw has been receiving evil emanations that are focused on one power nexus of dark forces. The mystic power of the Claw shows the location to be Jungle Island, much to Tara's dismay. It is Stardust's turn to be shocked when the Claw reveals the source of evil to be the Black Shroud, whom Stardust believed she had killed in their first encounter.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

The Avenger (Roger Wright)

O of A Spe 1 (C)

2nd Story

Captain Flash (Keith Spenser)

O of A Spe 1 (C)

FF 20

Catman (David Merriweather)

O of A Spe 1 (C)

FF 20

Colt (Val Kirk)

FF 18 (1)

FF 20

Green Lama

O of A Spe 1 (C)

FF 29 (C)

Jet-Girl (Pat Dale)

O of A Spe 1 (C)

2nd Story (C)

Nightveil (Laura Wright)

FF 18 (1)

2nd Story

Rocketman (Tech Carson)

O of A Spe 1 (C)

2nd Story (C)

She-Cat (Cass/Cleo Angora)

FF 18 (1)

2nd Story (C)

Stardust (Mara)

FF 18 (1)

FF 20

Tara (Tara Fremont)

FF 18 (1)

U O FF 1

Thunderfox (Lynn)

FF 18 (1)

FF 20

Dr. Jonathan Weir

O of A Spe 1

2nd Story

Villains / Opponents

Black Shroud (Zara Khan)(C)

S of J 4 (1)

FF 22

Supporting Characters

Cap

O of A Spe 1

AC Ann 1 (2)

T.C. Fremont

FF 18 (1)

FF 24 (2)


Others

party guests; building residents; TV reporter

Geography

Orlando: New York State

Sites

Fremont home; van Loan penthouse; Weir Asylum; FF HQ

Time

Present (over a 1-night period); several hours before Pat's rescue (F)

Magic & Tech.

Tara's knife; Jet-Girl's jet-pack; Purple Claw; Starjet; Colt's Clipper; Avenger's dissolver


Notes:
The full background on the Vault of Heroes can be found in FF Out of the Asylum Special 1.... Jet-Girl has the honor of being the first awakened Vault heroine to appear in AC continuity.... Tara's nightmare is part of the Shroud's psychic assault on the Femforce and is followed by She-Cat's experience in FF 20.... Jet-Girl's name is given as Pat Dale and Rocketman is referred to as her partner, although she and Tech Carson are shown to be married in later stories.... Similarly, Catman denies any personal relationship with Kitten, although the Merriweathers are also shown to be happily married in later tales.... Stardust's language alternates between formality and earthiness as she becomes more assimilated to Earth culture.... Tara correctly surmises that the Shroud's influence over Jungle Island is the reason for all the evil that has befallen it since the Fremonts bought the property.... Kuromoko's service to the Shroud also explains his early attempt to buy the island from Fremont.... Jet-Girl and Rocketman are the only two Vault heroes whose identities are revealed in this issue.... Stardust and Tara are both spoken of as belonging to the Femforce even though they are not officially inducted until the next issue.... In short, this is a landmark issue that explains a number of past events, begins the reintroduction of a number of "lost" Golden Age characters and kicks the long-running Black Shroud storyline into high gear.


2nd Story: Nightveil Meets the Avenger (11 pgs)

Credits:
Bill Black, story / inks / edits; Jim Rozel, pencils; Wait Paisley, letters; Rebekah Black, gray tones; based on a story in The Avenger # 1 by Gardner Fox and Dick Ayers

Synopsis:
While the Femforce and the Vault Heroes continue discussing the growing evil of the Black Shroud, the Avenger slips into another room, his body wracked with pain. Nightveil materializes in the room and probes his mind to be sure he is in fact Roger Wright, whom she believed to have died in 1955. The Avenger tells Nightveil the story of how he foiled the Russians' attempt to steal an atomic missile only to be caught in the fallout when the bomb exploded. Stricken with cancer, he sought help from Dr. Weir, who offered him a place in the Vault where he could sleep with his disease halted until the future when he could be helped. Now, having been awakened, the disease and its pain have again begun their progress, and he plans to go back to the Vault. At that point, Laura reveals her identity to him, and the brother and sister are reunited.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

The Avenger (Roger Wright)

1st story

AC Ann 1 (2)

Jet-Girl (Pat Dale)(C)

1st story

FF 20

Nightveil (Laura Wright)

1st story

NV C of H (1)

Rocketman (Tech Carson)(C)

1st story

FF 29 (C)

She-Cat (Cass/Cleo Angora)(C)

1st story

U O FF 1

Dr. Jonathan Weir (C)

1st story

AC Ann 1 (2)

Villains / Opponents

None named

Supporting Characters

None named


Others

Russians (F); island natives (F)

Geography

Orlando; South Pacific (F): Upstate New York (F)

Sites

FF HQ; Weir asylum (F)

Time

Present immediately after 1st story; 1955 (F)

Magic & Tech.

Starjet (F) Chemicals in Avengers belt (F); Purple Claw (F)

Notes:
The flashback in the story is a new version of the original by Ayers / Fox which ran in Avenger 1.... The official story behind the Avenger's 1955 disappearance was that he had been killed in the atomic explosion.... This is the first mention made of Laura having a brother named Roger.... The masking powers of the Claw are given as the reason Nightveil was unable to mystically detect her brother's presence over the years.

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Based on The Official Guide to The AC Universe by Ken Kerouac
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