Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Eight Hands of Tenslith!"

Prowling the spaceways, robbing from the rich to give to the poor...

We continue the space-spanning saga of the Queen of the Space Pirates with this tale from Nedor's Wonder Comics #17.

Art was, again, by Gene Fawcette, one of the better illustrators of the period, who usually penciled and inked his sci-fi, horror, and good-girl material (or strips that combined them like Tara) for Fiction House, Avon, and Better.

BTW, the cover for this issue features characters from the Tara story that appeared in Wonder Comics #16. 
You can see the cover, along with her second appearance HERE.

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Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Fabulous Jewel of Morn"

She's back...the female space pirate who proves...

...in the eternal void, gender is irrelevant when strategy and weaponry can triumph over brute strength!

Though this tale is in Nedor's Wonder Comics #16, the cover by Alex Schomberg during his "Xela" airbrush art period, is from the next issue...Wonder Comics #17!

The cover features both the villain and jewel from the story in #16, so we're using it here.
In fact, none of the covers featuring Tara go with the stories in their respective issues!
Weird!

Penciled and inked by Gene Fawcette.

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Space Heroine Saturdays TARA "Outlaw of the Universe!"

An origin story, or as we say in comics "Who She Is and How She Came to Be"!

And it hasn't been reprinted since initial publication in Nedor's Wonder Comics #15 (1947)

Yes, I said #15, even though the cover by Alex Schomberg (aka "Xela") is from #16!

I'll explain later...

Tara continued in Wonder Comics until the book was cancelled, then popped over to fellow Nedor title Thrilling Comics for her final appearance!
You'll be seeing another chapter of her saga once a month as part of Space Heroine Saturdays!

As to why the cover for the next issue is used here:

1) the cover for #15 featured a different character.

2) The cover used on #16 actually shows a situation from this issue (#15)!

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Reading Room PLANET COMICS "Star Pirate"

In space, no one can hear you say "Arrr, matey..."

...as this example of the little-known "pirates in space" sub-genre proves!

Like most pirates (who are romantics at heart), Star Pirate is a sucker for a pretty face.
The Star Pirate became a fixture in Planet Comics, running from 1941 until just before the book's cancellation in 1953.

The name "Leonardo Vinci" on this intro tale from #12 (1941) is a pen-name assigned to this particular strip.

The general consensus is that the artist is Al Gabrielle, but the writer is unknown.

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Reading Room BUCCANEERS "Black Roger and the FireDrake"

Let's rejoin comics' premier Muslim fighter...

...as he once more faces them along the Barbary Coast!

Sadly, the writer and artist for this kool tale from Quality's Buccaneers #23 (1950) are unknown, but their imagination in using anachronistic elements like the "FireDrake" certainly livens up the story with fantastic, but not totally-implausable elements.

Reading Room BUCCANEERS "Black Roger: Beware Treachery, Black Roger!!"

Remember the days when Muslims in comics looked like her?

There're no hijabs here, bunkie!

It's typical Arabian fantasy common to 1930s-50s movies!

This never-reprinted tale from Quality's Buccaneers #22 (1950) follows the tropes established in the Technicolor fantasy films of the period including Arabian Nights, Kismet, and Thief of Bagdad, along with the (at the time) still-popular pirate flicks which ran the gamut from big-budget "A" pics to movie serials.
Despite that, the era of pirate-themed comics like Mutiny, Piracy, Buccaneers, Captain Kidd, etc, was short-lived, beginning and ending in less than three years.
Both the writer and artist of this tale (and the entire Black Roger series) are lost to the mists of time.