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FEMFORCE #43
COVER: Black / Heike
EDITORIAL CONTENT: Rocketman / Jet-Girl
Pull-Out
MILESTONES: Origin / 1st app. Captain Video;
Amazon women are revealed as alien Gammazons; Garganta
returns
1st Story: The Gammazons From Galaxy G (21 pgs, 3
parts)
Credits:
Part 1: Bill Black, story; Vic Bridges, pencils; Mark
Heike / Chad Hunt, inks; Parts 2 & 3: Bill Black,
story; Brad Gorby, pencils; Chad Hunt, inks; Tim Twonky,
letters
Synopsis:
One night in FF HQ, Ms. Victory's 24-hour duty tour is
interrupted by the holographic image of Captain Video
summoning her to use his remotely flown aircraft to join him
at his Rocky Mountain HQ. Upon Jen's arrival, Video tells
her of his origins, explains his remarkable surveillance
system, and warns Jen of the impending arrival on Earth of
an alien race of giant woman warriors called the Gammazons.
Preparations are made, and when a landing party alights in
the Brazilian jungle days later, Tara infiltrates their
ranks. With her own height matching those of the aliens,
Tara treks with them to the Amazon city where, according to
Video's report, they intend to retrieve their Amazon
sisters, who have been stranded for centuries. The reunion
proves anything but joyous, however, as the city's longtime
inhabitants clash fiercely with the new arrivals. Guessing
that the Gammazons are after Arachna's crown for some
mysterious purpose, Tara seizes it from Arachna's chamber
and tries to flee. Meanwhile, Synn investigates a second
landing party in Jamaica and watches, first in horror then
in fascination, as the aliens' ray guns transform a giant
sea creature into its human form of Garganta. At Daytona
Beach, Dragonfly's encounter with a third group raiding the
Ocean Center studios where Tara became a giant is suddenly
menaced by the towering figure of Nightveil, now a giantess
herself, looming over them.
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Others
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Video's assistants; surgeon (F); Amazons; Gammazons; news
people
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Geography
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Orlando; Rocky Mountains; Lago Codajas; Amazon Jungle;
Kingston, Jamaica, Daytona Beach
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Sites
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FF HQ; Captain Video's HQ; Ames' lab (F); hospital (F);
Chili Bordello; Amazon City; Kingston beach; Ocean
Center
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Time
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Present, over several days, about a week after Tara
becomes a giant
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Magic & Technology
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Captain Video's aircraft, surveillance equipment, and
vision implants; Gammazons' spacecraft, ray guns, transport
craft; Arachna's crown
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Notes:
Captain Video's eyes, ruined by his treacherous
assistant Pauli, have been replaced by electronic implants
that give him a 360 degree view via his satellite cameras;
he also claims to have intervened in the Scud missile
attacks during Desert Storm.... Video, unaware that Jen is
not the original Ms. Victory, assumes she has encountered
the Amazons before in the Femforce's early battle against
them.... Jen deploys Stardust to investigate those Gammazon
ships still in orbit, though the team's encounter with these
ships is not depicted until the following issue.... The
dinosaurs Tara brought back with her from the past in FF 2
have apparently been trained by the Amazons, who use them in
the battle with the Gammazons.... Dragonfly voices the
thought that one of the Gammazons' objectives is to
investigate Earth's giants, Tara and Garganta among them....
As we learn later, the bizarre behavior exhibited by
Nightveil is due to the fact that this sorceress is not
Nightveil at all, but Alizarin Crimson, who has been
impersonating Laura since their collision in FF 42(1).... In
FF 44, Dragonfly pins down the time frame for this storyline
by referring to the week that has passed since Tara's
growth.
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2nd Story: The Menace of the Muck Man (8 pgs)
Credits:
Bill Black, story; Frank Turner, art
Synopsis:
Rocketman and Jet-Girl head into the swamp, combining an outing with
a test of their new jet packs. Arriving at the home of Tech's friend
Professor McNabb, they find the small cabin on fire and McNabb
unconscious within. The professor had just been attacked by a
prehistoric "muck man" that his experiments inadvertently released
from the amber block in which it had been preserved. Heeding McNabb's
warning that fire seems to be the creature's only weakness, Pat and
Tech track it down and attack. At a critical moment, however, both of
their jet-packs fail, the victim of Carteque CEO Byron Foulger's
sabotage. Prof. McNabb charges the monster and sets them both afire.
The creature is destroyed, but to Pat and Tech's horror, the
Professor tells them that he must live forever in his burned, scarred
body, as the gas that preserved the monster, which he himself
breathed, has rendered him immortal.
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Heroes / Heroines
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Last App
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Next App
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Jet-Girl (Pat Carson)
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FF 42 (1)
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GGAQ 6 (1)
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Rocketman (Tech Carson)
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FF 42 (1)
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AC Ann 2 (3)
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Villains / Opponents
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Byron Foulger
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FF 33
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AC Ann 3 (1)
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Muck Man
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1st app
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GGG 2 (1)
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Supporting Characters
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Professor McNabb
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1st app
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GGG 2 (1)
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Others
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None
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Geography
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California city (Carteque Industries); swamp area
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Sites
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Carteque Industries; Professor McNabb's cabin
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Time
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Present - several hours in one day
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Magic & Technology
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Jet Girl's and Rocketman's jet packs
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Notes:
Pat, as usual, has to contend with Tech's obsession with his work; to
make matters worse, she has a less than favorable impression of
McNabb, whom she considers a nut for working with his swamp gas.
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3rd Story: Beauty and the Beast (6 pgs)
Credits:
The Count, story / layouts; John Nadeau, pencils / inks; Tim
Twonky, letters; Bill Black, edits
Synopsis:
The limp body of Janis Lawson, barely aware of her
surroundings, is finally plucked from the sea by the Black
Shroud's former minions, including the Killer Clown, Iron
Jaw, the Frightenstein Monster, and the ship's captain,
Singapore Sal. The lady buccaneer is ready to throw the
helpless girl back to her doom until the Clown recognizes
her and points out her ransom potential. The Monster,
captivated by Janis' beauty, goes berserk, claims the title
of captain, and grabs Janis to prevent her from being taken
below. Sal, infuriated by this mutiny, commands Iron Jaw to
drive the pathetic figure off the plank. Bobbing alone in
the sea, the creature watches the ship fade over the
horizon.
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Others
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Sal's crew
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Geography
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Somewhere at sea, Atlantic Ocean
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Sites
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On board Sal's ship
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Time
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Present - brief time period in one day soon after the
villains' escape from Jungle Island
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Magic & Technology
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Sal's ship; Iron Jaw's "shock stick"
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Notes:
The villains' escape from the caverns beneath Jungle Island is
explained by their having found a hidden subterranean channel leading
to the sea.... Sal wants to remain the only woman on board, and
agrees to keep Janis only when she learns she is the friend of a
millionaire's daughter and might fetch a good ransom. |
