SHERO

great & funny

That's sure a reversal from the usual superheroine fantasy. A very hot woman who turns super ugly when she uses her powers? 

But that's the fun in this genre... there is truly an angle for everyone. 

Shadar

Fantomah
One of the very first, some say the first, superheroine turned ugly when she transformed.

shadar wrote: That's sure a reversal from the usual superheroine fantasy. A very hot woman who turns super ugly when she uses her powers? 

But that's the fun in this genre... there is truly an angle for everyone. 

Shadar

She is hot in normal form, the accent doesn't hurt either.  Were they going for neanderthal powers?  I was going to say what about She-Hulk!  She doesn't exactly stay "pretty" in green form, but that's not true in most incarnations....

I like it. It definitely does the social commentary thing very well. I'm not thrilled that she goes rogue at the end, but otherwise, its quite a good piece.

Markiehoe wrote: Fantomah
One of the very first, some say the first, superheroine turned ugly when she transformed.

I only vaugly remember seeing her before and that's only after thinking hard.  I'm always amazed at the deep knowledge of the people here.  Great find.

If you want to read the original stories, they're on comixology (and free if you already have Comixology Unlimited).

www.comixology.com/The-Complete-Works-of.../comics-series/71229  (one is the combined collection of the other two, the Fantomah stories are interleaved throughout the book).

These aren't all the Fantomah stories just the original ones by Fletcher Hanks.   And interesting character, though the stories are rather short and quickly resolved.  And one wonders why Fantomah let someone kill a bunch of people she was aware of before she stopped them.

There was a recent adaptation from Chapterhouse Comics:

www.comixology.com/Fantomah/comics-serie...b3BSZXN1bHRzU2xpZGVy