Yup. got a comment, as this is relevant to my interests.
Lyta's best costume was when she was in Young All-Stars, the 'Young Justice' version of the All-Star Squadron. Stories were set in and around
World War II, but the comics came out in the 80s, of course, so the superheroine costumes were incredibly tight and very colorful.
The team was created by Roy Thomas and his wife Dann - Fury was created especially for the series.
Not only was Fury super-hot (and she had a super handsome and buff boyfriend - Iron Munro)
but so was the other female member of the team, who was topical to the period because she was a defector from the Japanese Empire:
Miya Shimada aka Tsunami. (Boy, would I love to see an Asian girl cosplay her at a Comicon. I'm sure you would, too.)
She was linked romantically with the other sea-related hero, Neptune Perkins.
So, here are our connections to Fury and Young All-Stars:
- Pittsburgh comic book artist (and current caricaturist) Howard Bender drew several issues of Young All-Stars in the 80s, including Fury and Tsunami,
and did a back cover pinup of Vendetta of Heroineburgh on our Issue #2.
- Last weekend, I was at Big Apple Con in NYC, and right across the aisle from me was Lou Hanna, who also drew several issues of Young All-Stars after Bender did. He had signed prints for sale of both Tsunami and Fury! He signed a copy of a Young All-Stars #28 for me (Part 2 of the "Sons of Dawn" story) which he drew.
- At Hershey Comicon this past summer, I had Roy Thomas sign several issues of Young All-Stars that he worked on with Bender.
So, I have about half of the 31 issues of this series from the 80s.
Here are Lyta and Tsunami in the group shot. A couple of the sexiest DC superheroines for sure!
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