FemForce #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFemForce #5 is the first appearance of Synn (the Girl from LSD) within the ongoing FemForce series, integrating a Bill Black character with roots stretching back to his pre-AC Paragon Publications fanzines of the late 1960s and early 1970s into the team's continuity. The issue also concludes the multi-part 'Moon's Mind Masquerade' arc that had threaded through the series since issue #1, demonstrating AC's ambition for serialized storytelling unusual among small independent publishers of the era. On top of that, its cover — a deliberate homage to the poster of the 1958 film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman by Bill Black and Bill Anderson — stands as the earliest documented comic-book cover in that now-well-traveled homage tradition. Together, these elements make issue #5 a meaningful creative milestone in one of independent comics' most enduring all-female super-team series.
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FemForce launched in 1985 as the flagship title of AC Comics (originally Americomics), the brainchild of Bill Black, who had spent the preceding decade and a half publishing superhero fanzines under the Paragon Publications banner. Characters like Synn that debuted in those Paragon titles were folded into the FemForce universe as the series matured, and issue #5 represents an early, deliberate act of that world-building. The 'Moon's Mind Masquerade' storyline — scripted and penciled by Don Secrease and inked by Doug Hazlewood — was one of the first multi-issue arcs in the series, while the lead story 'Cat Fight' was written, penciled, and inked variously by Bill Black and Mark Propst with inks by Bill Anderson.
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- First appearance of Synn (the Girl from LSD) in the FemForce ongoing series; her story segment is titled 'The Girl From LSD,' written and drawn by Bill Black.
- Synn's character predates FemForce itself — Bill Black created her for his Paragon Publications fanzines, with her origin story appearing in Paragon Illustrated #2 (1970).
- The issue contains four stories: 'Cat Fight' (script by Bill Black, pencils by Mark Propst, inks by Bill Anderson), 'The Girl From LSD' (story and art by Bill Black), 'Copy Cats' (story and art by Bill Black), and 'Moon's Mind Masquerade, Part 3: The Minds Have It' (script and pencils by Don Secrease, inks by Doug Hazlewood).
- The 'Moon's Mind Masquerade' arc concludes here, with Colt defeating Professor Montague Moon — a villain whose debut ran in FemForce #1 — and then taking her creators (guest-starring Don Secrease, Rick Burchett, Paul Daly, and Bill Black as in-story characters) out to lunch.
- The full-color cover by Bill Black and Bill Anderson is a homage to the 1958 sci-fi film poster for Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and is documented as the earliest comic-book cover homage to that poster in chronological surveys of the tradition.
- The lead story 'Cat Fight' features a giant robotic She-Cat terrorizing the Ocean World attraction in Orlando — grounding the adventure in the series' recurring real-world Florida setting — with She-Cat and Ms. Victory responding to the threat.
- Nightveil appears both in her superhero identity and her civilian identity as Laura Wright in this issue, reinforcing the dual-identity characterization central to the character.
- FemForce is described by its publisher as the first and longest-running all-women super-team in American comics, and had surpassed 200 issues by the time of this writing.
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