Saturday, September 26, 2020

Shanna and Rima

 


This is a pairing that I am surprised I am only getting to now.  I mean, I was a big Tarzan fan as a kid, so a female version of the character naturally held appeal for me as well.  Even better if they had ties to the superhero worlds that I was fascinated with. Rima was on Super Friends and Sheena operated out of The Savage Land, a well traveled Marvel locale.  And what's better than a gorgeously illustrated scantily clad queen of the jungle - well, two of them, of course!

17 comments:

jlbgriggs2 said...

Throw in Sheena, Princess Pantha, and Jungle Girl, and you'd have a new team: Jungle Angels.

Davejonz said...

@jlb you said the magic word - team! I googled jungle girl in comics - there are plenty. But these 2 are great for starters. Like the cats too!
Ross, who are the artists? Is Rima by Joe Kubert?

Ross said...

The artists are listed blow each cover in the labels. Rima is Kubert, Sheena is Andru/Colletta

Anonymous said...

DJ and JLB are right. Particularly with regard to Sheena. She's the grand dame of jungle girls The progenitor for them all. She even had a TV series (1950's) and a feature film (1980's) spun off of the original comic strip!

Currently, of course, she's a Dynamite gal.

Carycomic said...

What Dave, Briggs, and Anon said. :-)

Horsefeathers up a tree said...

Throw in a time displaced Red Sonja and you can have a six pack to go. What happens if they all turn 60?

Anonymous said...

@Anon 8:36 AM: That's a partly a pun, right?

Anonymous said...

If pretty martial artists (like Sailor Moon) are available for a cover, how about a group of such senshis? : or "sen-SHE"s? XD!

Anonymous said...

Yep! Just like 60 = 6 x 10 (as in "A perfect...").

Bob Greenwade said...

I'm all for the jungle girl team. That actually was my first thought upon opening the page. And if the team makes any return engagements, they could guest-star Tara (of the Herculoids) and/or Shuri.

Anonymous said...

Shanna not Sheena. Those are two different characters.

Daniel B said...

And could HM's Taarna play? I don't recall if she has a jungle connection.

Anonymous said...

@Anon134: I know they're two different characters! I was just partially agreeing with Davejonz's statement about there being plenty of jungle girls in comic book history. But, I was also pointing out that SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE was the heroine whose eponymous comic strip set the trend.

Carycomic said...

@Daniel B: as her story in "Heavy Metal The Movie" was more of a post-apocalyptic s-f Western, I think she'd be more appropriate for a team up with Thundarr, Ookla, and Princess Ariel.

Anonymous said...

How about She-Ra, and Sheera (female friend of Tor (a.k.a. The Mighty Mightor, whose magic caveman club works a lot like She-Ra's (and He-man's) magic sword; maybe the club was a Flintstone-ized magic sword. XD!)?

Bob Buethe said...

Rima's stories were set at the start of the 20th century, so it always bugged me when she appeared with the Super Friends. But I guess that Earth-SF, like Earth-STF, has it's own timeline.

BTW, Rima was based on the novel "Green Mansions" by W.H. Hudson, which was made into a 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Hopkins.

Anonymous said...

I remember an episode of "McHale's Navy" where Capt. Binghamton (Joe Flynn) thought Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) was "the son of Tarzan and Rima the Bird Girl!"

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