Re: Accuracy

[Stephen Faust <smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu>]

That's everything I always wanted to know, absolutely everything I ever 
wanted to know about Sheena and Rula. You mean there wasn't at least one 
yarn about travels to a hidden African valley full of dinosaurs - there 
was in Tarzan. Anyway, still say Kel, girl dino writer fits in spirit 
with the old comic heroines.

Stephen Faust                   smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Office wrote:

> Maybe I should be embarrassed for knowing all this, but what the heck.
> 
> Sheena, Queen of the Jungle was the star of Jungle Comics and later her
> own comic book for Fiction House comics during the 1940's and early
> 1950's.
> 
> There was a television show featuring hmmmm.... Irish McCullough (sp?)..
> that was broadcast for several years during the early 1950's much to the
> consternation of mothers everywhere. 
> 
> There were not, to the best of my recollection, any feature films at
> that time, but in 1984 Tanya Roberts made a film that was so unmemorable
> that I can't remember ever seeing it.
> 
> Rulah, The Jungle Goddess, was one of many Sheena comic book rip-offs in
> the 1940's which fell under the rubric "headlight" comics, and I'm
> sorry, but I'm not going to explain what that means.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, there were absolutely no dinosaurs in any
> of these comic books! There! See! I mentioned dinosaurs!
> 
> ES
> 
> Stephen Faust wrote:
> > 
> > You must be young, have lived a cloistered life as a child, or just plain
> > hate comic books. Sheena and Rula, hope my spellings up to par here, were
> > famous pre 1960s jungle queens. There was a movie about Sheena in the
> > 80s, can't remember the actress.
> > 
> > Stephen Faust                   smfaust@edisto.cofc.edu
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jack Frost wrote:
> > 
> > > Stephen Faust wrote:
> > >
> > > Come on, I like " girl dino writer", adds a touch of class - Batgirl,
> > > Supergirl, Sheena, that kind of thing.
> > >
> > > Who's Sheena?
> > >
> > > Jeremy Frost
> > >
> > > "If you love your foot, die for it."
> > >
> > >
> 
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