![]() Moonstone published Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #1–3 (2014). Devils Due Publishing releases include Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #1–5 (June 2007 – January 2008), a Sheena, Trail of the Mapinguari one-shot (April 2008), and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: Dark Rising #1–3 (October 2008 – December 2008). London Night Studios published Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #0 (February 1998), a one-shot color comic book, followed by three issues of a planned four-issue black-and-white miniseries of the same name (May 1998 – February 1999). de Souza and set in South America rather than Africa, began with London Night Studios in 1998, and continued at Devil's Due Publishing from 2008–2009, and at Moonstone in 2014. A reboot of Sheena written primarily by Steven E. Contemporary appearances īlackthorne in the 1980s published original Sheena stories in the three-issue series Jungle Comics (May–Oct. Cover art by Joe Doolinįiction House, originally a pulp magazine publisher, ran prose stories of its star heroine in the latter-day pulp one-shot Stories of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Spring 1951) and Jungle Stories vol. Blackthorne also published Jerry Iger's Classic Sheena (April 1985). Sheena also appeared in Fiction House's Ka'a'nga #16 (Summer 1952) and the one-shot 3-D Sheena, Jungle Queen (1953) -the latter reprinted by Blackthorne Publishing as Sheena 3-D Special (May 1985). 1938 – April 1953), as well as in her groundbreaking 18-issue spin-off, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (Spring 1942 – Winter 1952), the first comic book to title-star a female character. Sheena first appeared stateside in Fiction House's Jumbo Comics #1, and subsequently in every issue (Sept. Iger, who maintained that Eisner had nothing to do with the creation of the character, claimed that he picked the name because his mind wandered to the derogatory name "sheenies" that Jewish people were sometimes called in his early days in New York. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel She. Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. To help hide the fact their studio consisted only of themselves, the duo signed their Sheena strip with the pseudonym "W. UFP was one of a handful of studios that produced comics on demand for publishers and syndicates, and whose client Editors Press Service distributed the feature to Wags. One source says Iger, through his small studio Universal Phoenix Features (UFP), commissioned Mort Meskin to produce prototype drawings of Sheena. Power's British magazine Wags #46 in January 1938. Her adventures mostly involve encounters with slave traders, white hunters, native Africans, and wild animals. She was predated in literature by Rima, the Jungle Girl, introduced in the 1904 William Henry Hudson novel Green Mansions.Īn orphan who grew up in the jungle, learning how to survive and thrive there, she possesses the ability to communicate with wild animals and is proficient in fighting with knives, spears, bows, and makeshift weapons. Sheena inspired a wealth of similar comic book jungle queens. She was the first female comic book character with her own title, with her 1941 premiere issue ( cover-dated Spring 1942) preceding Wonder Woman #1 ( cover-dated Summer 1942). Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Ability to shapeshift into any animal she makes eye-to-eye contact with.Telepathic communication with jungle animals.Ability to communicate with wild animals.
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