She was the princess of a far-off land, come to America after winning an athletic tournament!
She was super-strong, near-invulnerable, and could fly for short distances!
Equipped with exotic weaponry, she battled evil and constantly rescued her non-super powered boyfriend!
And, she wore a red-yellow-blue costume with a revealing top and VERY short blue shorts!
Sounds like
Wonder Woman, doesn't it?
But, it's NOT!
It's
MOON GIRL!
"WTF!!!" you may exclaim! "Who's 'Moon Girl'?"
Well, I'll tell you...
A young European aristocrat, known to all as
Moon Girl or
Princess of the Moon, is told of her family's legacy of woman warriors who can only marry men who defeat them in battle. She is also given a magic jewel (a moonstone) which enhances her already-considerable athletic abilities.
When
Prince Mengu from an adjacent kingdom is smitten by the beautiful princess, he attempts to win her hand by defeating her in combat.
Good luck, Chuck!
She kicks his arse, but is herself smitten by his studliness.
Having learned
Mengu went to America to get over his failure and heartbreak, she followed him to a private school where he took a teaching job under the name
Lionel Manning.
Moon Girl assumed the name
Claire Lune, got another teaching job at the same school and reunited with
Mengu / Lionel.
She agreed to help him toughen up in order to win her, and the two together romped around the city in matching tights getting exercise by battling evil menaces from gangsters to giant robots! (Beats doing laps at the gym!)
The origin tale you just read about was a backup story in the humor comic
The Happy Hooligans #1. After another appearance in another humor comic,
Moon Girl was given her own title.
That comic book was originally called
Moon Girl & the Prince.
As of #2, it became just
Moon Girl as
Prince Mengu disappeared from all but the lead story in each issue.
When #7 came out, it became
Moon Girl Fights Crime, the Prince was gone entirely, and the backups became true-crime tales narrated by
Moon Girl. The lead stories were still
Moon Girl adventures.
Two issues later (#9), the book became a romance title,
A Moon, A Girl, Romance! (The final
Moon Girl story appeared in the back.)
Finally, as of #13, the book shifted gears into science fiction and became
Weird Fantasy!
Curiously, though almost all of EC's output over the years has been reprinted in both comic and book form, AFAIK,
Moon Girl has yet to appear, except as a footnote in
Weird Fantasy reprints!
Well.
Atomic Kommie Comics™ is here to fill the void!
While we're
not reprinting the comics (the copies we have are slabbed), we ARE offering some
kool collectibles with two of
Moon Girl's best covers emblazoned on them!
And if the demand is great enough, we'll offer the other six, as well!
Get in on the ground floor with
Moon Girl...before she kicks YOUR butt!
Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
