I'd like to see if I can get this list up to one thousand. I'm sure that I've missed a lot of obvious ones, and even more obscure ones.
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Vana (Dell)
-The wife of Martan the Marvel Man, and his companion in adventure. Their feature started in Popular Comics #46. Martan and Vana come from a super-scientific world called Antaclea. When they go for a pleasure trip in their spaceship they fly too close to Earth and have to land. Their strength and weapons are superhero-like, but they might be instead considered SF heroes. In the opening instalments they encounter Earth war. #49 starts a long storyline about a Martian invasion.
Joan (Dell)
-Joan was the companion of Greg Gilday, whose feature appeared in War Comics #2-#4. The first two instalments were titled "Greg Gilday and the Martians" and intertwine their superpowers storyline with an alien invasion story. In the first Gilday is an elderly scientist whose invention, the supervitaliser, makes him young again and gives him super-strength like the early Superman's. In the second Joan volunteers for the treatment - before his revitalisation she's his nurse - and the two get involved in resistance to the Martian invasion. The remaining instalment is just titled "Greg Gilday", lacks the alien invasion element, and looks drawn by a different artist. The pair stop a war in South America.
Miss X (DC)
-Miss X appeared in some instalments of "Tex Thomson" from Action Comics. She might be too marginal: she had a sobriquet and secret true identity, but no powers or costume (other than dark glasses). I've read one instalment in which she appears, from #27. She assists Thomson in a bout with his enemy the Gorrah. Her identity isn't revealed to Thomson or the reader, but she's quite obviously Janice Maloney, the DA's daughter.
The Tigress (DC)
-From Young All-Stars. It was finally confirmed she became the Golden Age Huntress.
The Harlequin (Molly Mayne) (DC)
-Initially an antagonist, she ultimately became an undercover police agent.
Black Cat (Kim Stone) (Lorne-Harvey)
-A successor to the original who appeared in Alfred Harvey's Black Cat: The Origins #1.
Catwoman (Selena Kyle) went straight for a period in the earlier 1950s, and again, mostly, for a period in the late 70s through mid-80s. She appeared in solo stories in Detective Comics and worked with Batman a bit.
Marga the Panther Woman (Fox)
-Marga was a woman given panther characteristics by a mad scientist. She was initially a heroine of the future, but this element was dropped along the way. Her stories were typically jungle-set - this is already an element in the SF ones - so she can be interpreted as a jungle queen. She appeared in Science Comics and Weird Comics.
Possibly Mera.
Jonni DC, Continuity Cop, from Ambush Bug and its follow-ups. A true heroine, given what she had to deal with.
Vixen (Vivian Gale)
-This was an Australian superheroine of the 1970s, created by Gerald Carr. I doubt she was widely seen and I only looked through one comic in which she appeared. She predates the DC character.
Pantha (Warren)
Vampirella (Warren)
Lady Shiva (DC) is sometimes an antagonist, sometimes an ally of the superheroes.
Demona (Skywald)
-A sorceress character, evidently intended as in the vein of Vampirella. From Psycho #7. At one point she fights animated skeletons physically.
Avalon, Dot and Polestar from The New Wave (Eclipse)
Grendel (Christine Spar)
Ms. Mystic (Pacific; Continuity)
Fyre of Urth 4 (Continuity)
Jezebel of the Fiery Eyes (DC)
-An addition to the cast of New Gods from its Gerry Conway period.
Norma Richmond, Silver Star's girlfriend in Silver Star (Pacific)
Connie Ronnin and Kristen Austin from Southern Knights (The Guild and others)
France's Coraline
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Good suggestions, LB!
Luke Blanchard said:
Vana (Dell)
-The wife of Martan the Marvel Man, and his companion in adventure. Their feature started in Popular Comics #46. Martan and Vana come from a super-scientific world called Antaclea. When they go for a pleasure trip in their spaceship they fly too close to Earth and have to land. Their strength and weapons are superhero-like, but they might be instead considered SF heroes. In the opening instalments they encounter Earth war. #49 starts a long storyline about a Martian invasion.
Joan (Dell)
-Joan was the companion of Greg Gilday, whose feature appeared in War Comics #2-#4. The first two instalments were titled "Greg Gilday and the Martians" and intertwine their superpowers storyline with an alien invasion story. In the first Gilday is an elderly scientist whose invention, the supervitaliser, makes him young again and gives him super-strength like the early Superman's. In the second Joan volunteers for the treatment - before his revitalisation she's his nurse - and the two get involved in resistance to the Martian invasion. The remaining instalment is just titled "Greg Gilday", lacks the alien invasion element, and looks drawn by a different artist. The pair stop a war in South America.
Miss X (DC)
-Miss X appeared in some instalments of "Tex Thomson" from Action Comics. She might be too marginal: she had a sobriquet and secret true identity, but no powers or costume (other than dark glasses). I've read one instalment in which she appears, from #27. She assists Thomson in a bout with his enemy the Gorrah. Her identity isn't revealed to Thomson or the reader, but she's quite obviously Janice Maloney, the DA's daughter.
The Tigress (DC)
-From Young All-Stars. It was finally confirmed she became the Golden Age Huntress.
The Harlequin (Molly Mayne) (DC)
-Initially an antagonist, she ultimately became an undercover police agent.
Black Cat (Kim Stone) (Lorne-Harvey)
-A successor to the original who appeared in Alfred Harvey's Black Cat: The Origins #1.
I thought about adding Selina, but I suppose I've always thought of her as a thief who's not thoroughly than as a "hero" as such,
Luke Blanchard said:
Catwoman (Selena Kyle) went straight for a period in the earlier 1950s, and again, mostly, for a period in the late 70s through mid-80s. She appeared in solo stories in Detective Comics and worked with Batman a bit.
I feel as though Marga is borderline, but in the end, I'll add her.
I'll add Mera, too.
I've never even heard of Jonni DC, What an odd character!
Luke Blanchard said:
Marga the Panther Woman (Fox)
-Marga was a woman given panther characteristics by a mad scientist. She was initially a heroine of the future, but this element was dropped along the way. Her stories were typically jungle-set - this is already an element in the SF ones - so she can be interpreted as a jungle queen. She appeared in Science Comics and Weird Comics.
Possibly Mera.
Jonni DC, Continuity Cop, from Ambush Bug and its follow-ups. A true heroine, given what she had to deal with.
Good suggestions. I always thought of Lady Shiva as more of a villain, though.
Luke Blanchard said:
Vixen (Vivian Gale)
-This was an Australian superheroine of the 1970s, created by Gerald Carr. I doubt she was widely seen and I only looked through one comic in which she appeared. She predates the DC character.
Pantha (Warren)
Vampirella (Warren)
Lady Shiva (DC) is sometimes an antagonist, sometimes an ally of the superheroes.