After our Wings double blog-a-thon at the beginning of the month HERE and over at AEET HERE, a few of you wrote in asking to see more wild 'n wicked, war weirdness. Meanwhile, I always gets requests for more Lily Renee art, so here we go, killing two birds with one post! Jane Martin was a reoccurring back-up feature in Wings Comics, going all the way back to the very first issue in 1940, and thus, strutted her high flyin', long leggy stuff for well over 100+ issues. First appearing as a nurse, then a spy, and eventually a pilot over the expanse of her many appearances, Jane's adventures are always loaded with sexy fun, and were total diversions from the usual war stuff seen in the rest of this overly macho hero series. I especially like this story because we get one of the earliest comic book hints at Nazi's performing horribly nasty experiments by creating an unstoppable living dead army out of corpses! We also get plenty of great views of that little line running up the back of Jane's stockings, as only Lily Renee could draw it-- so there ya go! From the October 1943 issue of Wings Comics #38, and swiftly scripted by F. E. Lincoln.
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This was laugh out loud funny in places, like Jane going into combat in high heels, stocking, and he little red dress. Still, overall a good story that probably should have been longer.
Why did the zombie want to get back to "be saved"? How does that eben work?
I see the sexy dress and stockings as the biggest F-U to the Nazis. I'm going to invade your heavily fortified base, steal your formula (which ended up not mattering) and shot your scientist and then fight my way out. In heels. And look, not a single run in my nylons!
Why the heck did we need Cap America and Bucky! We just need more Jane!
I like that they acknowledged her earlier careers.
BTW Renee makes sure that Jane breaks the panel barrier on every page, and also makes sure to give us some interesting fashions (which was a something she did in a lot of her work.)
BTW 2: Great zombie on page 3!
Jane's shoulder really does weird things in the first panel of page 6.
I definitely like that splash. There's just something about a green cadaver that's so much more grody. Above and beyond.
I also really love that second panel on the last page, Jane Martin's nimble escape from the Germans (since she got through the window first, welp, there's nothing her pursuers can do: The Nazi army is just like Pac Man ghosts). Her pumps really invite a tortured reevaluation of the story along Wizard of Oz lines, but I'll spare everybody.
PS, I love all the crazy nonresearched glassware in that evil German science lab.
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