The List of 1,117 Super-Heroines

The Black Phantom from Magazine Enterprises was a masked Western character. She started as a Tim Holt villain and went straight. She starred in some stories of her own, principally in Black Phantom #1.

Madame .44 was another, the recurring antagonist of Johnny Thunder (Old West version) in his final stories in All-Star Western. According to the "Whatever Happened To..." feature in DC Comics Presents #28 she helped him stop a bank robber and recover his loot, was pardoned as Madame .44, married him in her other identity, and afterwards helped him keep the peace in his masked one.

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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 10, 2022 at 8:57am

Added:

The Black Phantom
Cherries Jubilee
Chrome (fka Spitfire)
Flame
Friction
Glitter
Golden Girl (Peggy Shane)
Laurel Kent
Madame .44
Nature Girl
Ranger Girl
The Red Torpedo
S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A.
Sponge
Tom Tom the Robot Man
Twilight (Lenore Fenzi)
Uran

Not sure about Kwannon, myself.

Couldn't find out much about the PS 238 characters, Have to rresearch them later.

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Permalink Reply by Luke Blanchard on October 11, 2022 at 4:42am

Here are a few more. I'll end with today's group to avoid overdoing things, or overdoing them more.

-The Iron Lady (Hillman). She has mechanical gloves that gave her hands super-strength. Her origin story appeared in Airboy Comics v4 #1. She otherwise appeared a handful of times in Clue Comics/Real Clue Crime Stories. She's flat-out a vigilante murderer in the first Clue Comics story, from v2 #1.

-Magga the Magnificent, from Atoman Comics #2 (Spark). Spark published Green Lama comics, and I think she was intended as a female counterpart. She uses his mantra.

-Mother Hubbard (Chesler). A old witch, stereotypical in appearance, who uses her magic to fight evil.

-Black Orchid (Harvey). From "Case of the Crumbling Skyscrapers" in All-New Short Story Comics #2. She works with a hero called Scarlet Nemesis. This looks like an inventory story for an intended series feature, run under a one-off title as that was the comic's format.

-Peachy Pet, the original Johnny Thunder's adopted daughter (DC). At one point she controlled the Thunderbolt while Johnny was non compos mentis. Elsewhen she summoned the Thunderbolt's son Shocko by saying "Sez Me". However, she was less a heroine than a fiend from hell.

-Zaza, from Zaza the Mystic (Charlton). The title character is a gypsy fortune teller. She's represented in the captions as faking her psychic powers, but in a couple of stories in the first issue, #10, she displays psychic abilities: in the first she has precognitive flashes, in the third she reads a character's mind. It looks like a case where the publisher backed off the premise as originally conceived (=she uses a mix of real psychic ability and imposture).

-Mentalia of the Sentinels (Charlton). "The Sentinels" was the principal back-up feature in Thunderbolt.

-Dawn Allen of the Tornado Twins (DC), who debuted in Adventure Comics #373.

-Una of Miracles, Inc. (Harvey). In the second story she displays an ability to induce feelings of overwhelming love in men using her eyes.

-Possibly Wondrous Woman of the Bestest League of America. This was a fan homage to the JLA of Roy Thomas's that Gary Friedrich used, with his permission, in the "Blooperman" feature in Go-Go (Charlton). There must be any number of comedic Wonder Woman homages.

-Ma Quentin of the Hyper-Family from Superboy #144 (DC). Another of the one-off superheroes from the Silver Age Super-books.

-Mystra of the Misfits, a Wally Wood SF/superhero feature from Heroes Inc. (CPL). She was an android with psychic abilities.

-Thena of the Eternals (Marvel).

-Pretty Pyra from Kamandi (DC). Originally an energy being, she was given a female body by Doc Canus.

-Misty Knight (Marvel). She has a bionic arm.

-Mighty Mary of the Outsiders from 1st Issue Special #10 (DC).

-Maya, the shape-changing alien played by Catherine Schell who was a regular in the second season of Space: 1999.

-Amanda Sefton (Marvel).

-Clare and Ann Dodgson, the identical twins who became Captain Universe in Marvel Spotlight #10.

-Georgianna Castleberry from Team America (Marvel). The final issue revealed her to be one on whom the team were projecting the identity of the Marauder. The dialogue left open whether anyone could become the Marauder, or there was something special about her. On the latter interpretation she qualifies.

-Dart and Morphea of Atari Force (DC). Dart had precognitive visions. Morphea was a telepathic alien.

-Kalista and Harpis of the Omega Men (DC). Kalista was a sorceress, Harpis could fly.

-Harbinger from Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC). Although when she first appeared she was the Monitor's secretary and he was running a referral service for villains.

-Nightglider, Seera and Kreech from the Topps Kirbyverse (Topps).

-Bluebird (Sally Avril) (Marvel), from Untold Tales of Spider-Man.

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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 11, 2022 at 7:42am

Thanks, Luke! I'll check these out when I get the chance. I actually wondered if we'd reach the limits of how long a list one could post here.

Luke Blanchard said:

Here are a few more. I'll end with today's group to avoid overdoing things, or overdoing them more.

-The Iron Lady (Hillman). She has mechanical gloves that gave her hands super-strength. Her origin story appeared in Airboy Comics v4 #1. She otherwise appeared a handful of times in Clue Comics/Real Clue Crime Stories. She's flat-out a vigilante murderer in the first Clue Comics story, from v2 #1.

-Magga the Magnificent, from Atoman Comics #2 (Spark). Spark published Green Lama comics, and I think she was intended as a female counterpart. She uses his mantra.

-Mother Hubbard (Chesler). A old witch, stereotypical in appearance, who uses her magic to fight evil.

-Black Orchid (Harvey). From "Case of the Crumbling Skyscrapers" in All-New Short Story Comics #2. She works with a hero called Scarlet Nemesis. This looks like an inventory story for an intended series feature, run under a one-off title as that was the comic's format.

-Peachy Pet, the original Johnny Thunder's adopted daughter (DC). At one point she controlled the Thunderbolt while Johnny was non compos mentis. Elsewhen she summoned the Thunderbolt's son Shocko by saying "Sez Me". However, she was less a heroine than a fiend from hell.

-Zaza, from Zaza the Mystic (Charlton). The title character is a gypsy fortune teller. She's represented in the captions as faking her psychic powers, but in a couple of stories in the first issue, #10, she displays psychic abilities: in the first she has precognitive flashes, in the third she reads a character's mind. It looks like a case where the publisher backed off the premise as originally conceived (=she uses a mix of real psychic ability and imposture).

-Mentalia of the Sentinels (Charlton). "The Sentinels" was the principal back-up feature in Thunderbolt.

-Dawn Allen of the Tornado Twins (DC), who debuted in Adventure Comics #373.

-Una of Miracles, Inc. (Harvey). In the second story she displays an ability to induce feelings of overwhelming love in men using her eyes.

-Possibly Wondrous Woman of the Bestest League of America. This was a fan homage to the JLA of Roy Thomas's that Gary Friedrich used, with his permission, in the "Blooperman" feature in Go-Go (Charlton). There must be any number of comedic Wonder Woman homages.

-Ma Quentin of the Hyper-Family from Superboy #144 (DC). Another of the one-off superheroes from the Silver Age Super-books.

-Mystra of the Misfits, a Wally Wood SF/superhero feature from Heroes Inc. (CPL). She was an android with psychic abilities.

-Thena of the Eternals (Marvel).

-Pretty Pyra from Kamandi (DC). Originally an energy being, she was given a female body by Doc Canus.

-Misty Knight (Marvel). She has a bionic arm.

-Mighty Mary of the Outsiders from 1st Issue Special #10 (DC).

-Maya, the shape-changing alien played by Catherine Schell who was a regular in the second season of Space: 1999.

-Amanda Sefton (Marvel).

-Clare and Ann Dodgson, the identical twins who became Captain Universe in Marvel Spotlight #10.

-Georgianna Castleberry from Team America (Marvel). The final issue revealed her to be one on whom the team were projecting the identity of the Marauder. The dialogue left open whether anyone could become the Marauder, or there was something special about her. On the latter interpretation she qualifies.

-Dart and Morphea of Atari Force (DC). Dart had precognitive visions. Morphea was a telepathic alien.

-Kalista and Harpis of the Omega Men (DC). Kalista was a sorceress, Harpis could fly.

-Harbinger from Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC). Although when she first appeared she was the Monitor's secretary and he was running a referral service for villains.

-Nightglider, Seera and Kreech from the Topps Kirbyverse (Topps).

-Bluebird (Sally Avril) (Marvel), from Untold Tales of Spider-Man.

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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 11, 2022 at 11:16pm

Added all of Luke's recent suggestions except for Peachy Pet and Maya from Space:1999.

Also two of DC's "international" heroes, Maya (Chandi Gupta) and La Salamanca.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Wrexham on October 12, 2022 at 3:53pm

Does Laurel Kent (pre-Crisis) actually count as a heroine? In DC's Millennium crossover event, she was revealed to be a robotic Manhunter attempting to infiltrate the Legion in the guise of a descendant of Superboy. The cover of her final appearance makes her villain status fairly clear:

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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 12, 2022 at 4:18pm

See here , in particular: " Despite the Manhunter's claims, it has recently been revealed that the real Laurel Kent was alive during this story arc, and she had merely been kidnapped and held captive by the android impostor."

It could be that her Manhunter status got retconned, I'm not sure.

Peter Wrexham said:

Does Laurel Kent (pre-Crisis) actually count as a heroine? In DC's Millennium crossover event, she was revealed to be a robotic Manhunter attempting to infiltrate the Legion in the guise of a descendant of Superboy. The cover of her final appearance makes her villain status fairly clear:

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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 12, 2022 at 4:22pm

Added the Black Mist and the Knight (Beryl Hutchinson), both of whom appeared in Batman Incorporated #1.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Wrexham on October 12, 2022 at 7:36pm

"It could be that her Manhunter status got retconned"

I'm fairly confident that, when Laurel Kent was first introduced, there was no intention of making her a villain. The revelation in Millennium that she was a Manhunter would itself have been a retcon. I wasn't aware that this had been re-retconned, but the link you posted suggests that this is indeed the case. I happily withdraw my objection to her inclusion in a list of heroines!