FemForce #11
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFemForce #11 is a meaningful mid-run installment in what the AC Comics Wiki and Wikipedia both identify as the first and longest-running all-women superhero team comic in American publishing history. The issue marks the debut of Hidalgo Romero, expanding the supporting cast of AC's Florida-based shared universe, while also giving the recurring villainess Alizarin Crimson — a character with roots stretching back to Bill Black's pre-AC Paragon Publications era — one of her most extended showcases to date, controlling Nightveil as a weapon against her own teammates. The issue also serves as a bridge between AC's Paragon Publications legacy and its 1980s comics-shop output: the lead story deliberately incorporates material from a Paragon-era Tara tale, making the book a self-conscious act of continuity-building for readers who followed Black's work across decades.
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FemForce #11 was published in 1988 by AC Comics (operating as Americomics), the Florida-based independent founded by writer-artist-editor Bill Black, who had been building the characters and universe since launching Paragon Publications in 1969. The lead story, 'The Thing From the Egg!', was written and drawn by Bill Black and explicitly incorporates material from an earlier Paragon Publications-era Tara adventure, reflecting AC's house practice of weaving its pre-direct-market history into ongoing continuity. The back-up story, 'Monsters' — spotlighting Nightveil — was scripted by Wes Covington from a plot by Nick Northey, with Northey also providing pencils in what AC Comics' own product page identifies as his first assignment for the publisher, inked by Black; the color cover was likewise a Northey/Black collaboration.
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- First appearance of Hidalgo Romero, per both the Grand Comics Database and eBay's GCD-sourced character index for this issue.
- Two complete stories: lead feature 'The Thing From the Egg!' (written and drawn by Bill Black) and back-up 'Monsters' (script by Wes Covington, plot and pencils by Nick Northey, inks by Bill Black).
- 'The Thing From the Egg!' guest-stars T. C. Fremont, Janis Lawson, and Dr. Rivits alongside Stella Stargaze, and incorporates material from a Paragon Publications-era Tara story — one of AC's recurring acts of retroactive continuity.
- Alizarin Crimson, a villain with roots in Bill Black's pre-AC Paragon Publications line dating back to the 1970s, appears as the antagonist of the Nightveil back-up, sending mystical creatures to attack Nightveil in her home.
- Nick Northey's work on 'Monsters' represents his first AC Comics assignment, per AC Comics' own product description for this issue.
- The issue also records the in-story death of the character Marimon, per the Grand Comics Database.
- Cover art was produced by Nick Northey and Bill Black; the book was published in full color, consistent with FemForce's color run between issues #1 and #15 before the series shifted to black-and-white with #16.
- The series in which this issue appears — FemForce — is described by both Wikipedia and the AC Comics Wiki as the first and longest-running all-female superhero team title in American comics.
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