Number 677


Two Lady Dangers


This is the final "Lady Danger" story drawn by Carmine Infantino. It's from Sensation Comics #89, 1949. The series went on for a few more episodes before being replaced by a couple of romance-styled strips, "Dr. Pat," and "Romance, Inc.," as Sensation bowed to the then-current love comics craze. For its last four episodes "Lady Danger" was drawn by Emil Gershwin. Nothing against Mr. Gershwin, who went on to ACG and the supernatural comics, et al., but to me the peak of "Lady Danger" was when Infantino was pencilling and Bob Oksner was inking. This particular episode was inked by veteran Joe Giella. No credit is given by the Grand Comics Database for the writer, but it was most likely editor Robert Kanigher.

We've shown some Infantino/Oksner stories in the past. Go to the link below and click on Lady Danger.

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Number 359


Lady Danger finds a needle in a haystack


Valerie Vaughn, aka Lady Danger, doesn't need a disguise, doesn't need super powers. She's smart, resourceful, and need I mention, a real cutie. She starred in a back-up feature in Sensation Comics in the late 1940s. This fine, fun story is written by editor Robert Kanigher and drawn by Carmine Infantino. It originally appeared in Sensation Comics #87 in 1949; this printing is from 1971, Lois Lane #117.

Thanks to Karswell of The Horrors Of It All for sharing the Lois Lane comic. The lead story is drawn by Werner Roth, who did the excellent Lorna the Jungle Girl story I showed a few days ago, and who wouldn't love Lois's hot lace-up boots on the cover?

Other Lady Danger stories I've posted are here, here, and here.

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Number 333

The Conscientious Klepto

Our girlfriend, Lady Danger, is back. As with the other two Lady Danger stories, shown in Pappy's #254 and Pappy's #302, our pretty young heroine is drawn by Bob Oksner, this time with inks by Bernard Sachs. The story is from Sensation Comics #86, February 1949.



Valerie Vaughn, Lady Danger, was one cute but tough tootsie! She could kick butt with the best of them. Unlike Wonder Woman, who was the headliner in Sensation Comics, Lady Danger depended on martial arts skills and smarts, not Amazonian-style super heroics.



She dressed well, too. I love the slacks and the high heels with the puffball on them. They look especially good buried in some bad guy's crotch when she turns him into a tenor.



Valerie Vaughn is va-va voom.

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Number 302

Lady Danger and the Shakespeare Clue

Lady Danger returns. The last time she showed her cute, sexy self was in Pappy's #254. This story is from DC's Sensation Comics #84, December 1948. As with the last episode, it's written by Bob Kanigher and drawn by Bob Oksner. Enjoy! I like this character, and I love Bob Oksner's art on anything.

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Number 254

Dead man's chest

Bob Oksner sure could draw cute girls. He could draw anything, actually, and was one of DC Comics' best caricaturists. He drew both Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope comics for years, because he had a good humorous style. But it's the pretty girls I like.

Lady Danger was a character from Sensation Comics in the late 1940s. This particular tale came from Sensation Comics #85*, January 1949. It's written by Bob Kanigher, who was editor of that title. In those days DC's artists were told to "draw it like Caniff!" who was one of the most popular newspaper cartoonists in America. Oksner was like the rest of the artists and drew it like Milton Caniff, but then, Caniff also had a way with pretty girls.

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*According to the Grand Comics Database, it was reprinted in Lois Lane #115, October 1970.

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