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!
Throw in Sheena, Princess Pantha, and Jungle Girl, and you'd have a new team: Jungle Angels.
ReplyDelete@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!
ReplyDeleteRoss, who are the artists? Is Rima by Joe Kubert?
The artists are listed blow each cover in the labels. Rima is Kubert, Sheena is Andru/Colletta
ReplyDeleteShanna not Sheena. Those are two different characters.
DeleteDJ 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!
ReplyDeleteCurrently, of course, she's a Dynamite gal.
What Dave, Briggs, and Anon said. :-)
ReplyDeleteThrow in a time displaced Red Sonja and you can have a six pack to go. What happens if they all turn 60?
ReplyDelete@Anon 8:36 AM: That's a partly a pun, right?
ReplyDeleteIf pretty martial artists (like Sailor Moon) are available for a cover, how about a group of such senshis? : or "sen-SHE"s? XD!
ReplyDeleteYep! Just like 60 = 6 x 10 (as in "A perfect...").
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteAnd could HM's Taarna play? I don't recall if she has a jungle connection.
ReplyDelete@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.
ReplyDelete@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.
ReplyDeleteHow 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!)?
ReplyDeleteRima'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.
ReplyDeleteBTW, 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.
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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