Vixens, Vamps & Vipers

Fred Guardineer, the Golden Age artist behind classic DC and MLJ characters, assembled this 2014 one-shot from Exterminating Angel Press as a showcase of his own vintage pulp-inspired work. Collecting a trio of his rarely-seen 1940s heroines—the jungle queen Vixen, the supernatural Vampi, and the underworld avenger Viper—the issue offers a compact survey of his dynamic, pre-Code adventure style. For fans of obscure comic history, it’s a focused glimpse at a prolific creator’s lesser-known creations, preserved in a single, self-contained volume.