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Femforce 49

FEMFORCE #49

COVER: Heike, after Al Bryant

EDITORIAL CONTENT: Photos, article on movie candidate Julie Michaels

MILESTONES: Joan Wayne recovers her Ms. Victory persona, and Lady Luger is defeated.

Story: The Eleventh Hour (Countdown to Victory (30 pgs)

Credits:
Bill Black, story / pencils; Dick Ayers, pencils / letters; Mark Heike / Chad Hunt, inks

Synopsis:
Rampaging through downtown Orlando, Garganta is finally brought under control when Buckaroo Betty and the Avenger team up to douse her in a nearby lake. At the Mystery World park, Luger defeats Joan Wayne with the timely help of Voltzman's gas attack. Later, while having his injuries treated at the same hospital where the injured David Burke has been taken Voltzman inadvertently eavesdrops as Jen Burke reveals her secret identity to her husband. Gordon is furious at Jen's security breach, but later on it is Jen's turn to be enraged at Gordon as Tom Kelly confesses the manipulations the government has practiced on the Burkes in order to have Jen replace her mother as Ms. Victory. Colt interrupts their confrontation to remind Jen of their intention to investigate the Mystery House park for its possible connection to Lady Luger. Back at the park, Luger has secured the weakened Ms. Victory to a giant electrical bomb, planning to unleash her final, deadly vengeance. She soon discovers that Voltzman, fed up with her abusive treatment of him, plans to betray her, weakening her with the same gas Joan has been subjected to. Joan, however, fully regains her identity, and through sheer force of will breaks free of her restraints just as Jen and Colt arrive. Mother and daughter's reunion is cruelly punctuated by the devastating blast. Meanwhile, Azagoth brings Nightveil to a strange dimension, directing her to search a mysterious castle for the answers she seeks regarding the source behind Crimson's great power. As they approach, Azagoth is assaulted by an unknown force. In a brief interlude, Tara and Betty discuss Jen's identity while supervising Jason's pool side play.

Heroes / Heroines

Last App

Next App

The Avenger (Roger Wright)

FF 48

FF 50

Buckaroo Betty (Betty Bates)

FF 48

FF 50

Colt (Val Kirk)

FF 46 (1)

FF 50

Garganta (Carol Heisler)

FF 48

FF 50

Miss Masque (Diana Adams)

FF 48

FF 50

Ms. Victory I (Joan Wayne)

FF 48

FF 50

Ms. Victory II (Jennifer Burke)

FF 48

FF 50

Nightveil (Laura Wright)

FF 48

FF 50

She-Cat (Jessica Hunt)

FF 48

FF 50

Stardust (Mara)

FF 48

FF 50

Synn (Silva Synn)

FF 48

FF 50

Tara (Tara Fremont)

FF 48

FF 50

Villains / Opponents

Gen. Richard Gordon

FF 48

FF 50

Lady Luger (Lila Royce)

FF 48

FF 50 (F)(C)

Charles Roberge (C)

FF Spe 1

FF 50 (F)(C)

Fritz Voltzman (Harcourt)

FF 47

FF 50 (F)(C)

Supporting Characters

Azagoth

FFUC 1 (F)(C)

FF 54 (2)(F)

David Burke

FF 48 (C)

FF 51 (2)

Jason Burke

FF 48

FF 50 (D)

Capt. Tom Kelly

FF 48

FF 50


Others

Nurses; soldiers; Orlando residents

Geography

Orlando; Capricorn's realm; Everglades

Sites

FF HQ; Garganta's hut; Mystery World Funhouse; Capricorn's stronghold; Federal Building; Nightveil's Sanctum; Regional Medical Center

Time

Present; a 1-day period immediately following FF 48

Magic & Technology

Avenger's Starjet; Betty's lariat; Voltzman's power-draining gas; Luger's bomb; Roberge's equipment (C)

Notes:
Betty's skillful rope work trips up Garganta, dumping her into Lake Eola.... Luger uses her hatred of Joan Wayne to feed her power during their battle.... Luger's ability to hurt Voltzman after her fight with Joan indicates that the super soldier serum did not work as well on him.... David's awakening to the sight of Tom Kelly giving Jen a consoling embrace prolongs his suspicions of her despite her reassurances.... Gordon's fear borders on paranoia as he again notes Miss Masque and the Avenger closely observing him.... Joan experiences deja vu as the surface of the bomb she is bound to cracks under her efforts to escape, subjecting her to the same sort of electrical barrage she received from Roberge back in WWll.... Luger appears to have aged again after being overcome by Voltzman's gas.... As shown in FF 55, Azagoth brings Nightveil to Capricorn's realm while he directs her from the Dhagor side of the portal.... Kelly, partly from cowardice, and partly from his feelings for Jen, lays the blame for the Burkes' misfortunes at the feet of Gordon, even though he appears to have initiated most of it, judging from his "I play dirty" response to Jen's initial refusal to become Ms. Victory.... Since Nightveil attends Jason Burke's funeral in FFUC 2 (1), the episode of her capture, depicted more graphically when she is found by Dragonfly in FF 50, must take place in the near future following the events of the Claw storyline; this aspect of the story, then, as well as the backups in FF 51 and 52, take place closer to the Capricorn Chronicles that begin in FF 55, and in fact are a sort of prelude to that storyline.

 

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