Miss Masque Strikes Back!

MISS MASQUE came into existence in June of 1947, one of Standard/Nedor/Better's last attempts at a costumed character.

After 12 appearances spread over Nedor's Exciting, Fighting Yank and America's Best Comics, the character disappeared into comic book limbo, until revived in 1990 as part of AC Comics' Femforce Vault Heroes storyline that lead into the Shroud Wars Femforce story arc. Spinning off from that revival (which included dozens of other previously-forgotten Golden Age champions), Miss Masque went on to become one of the Femforce's most popular supporting characters/guest-stars, appearing in the main group book and other.

AC's new Miss Masqu volume highlights the full career of the hat-wearing heroine in red, from her earliest Golden Age appearances until today - including three previously never seen adventures, all set in her heyday of the late 1940s.

The Funny Face of Death is written by television and screenwriter David Watkins, and illustrated by Scott Larson and Jeff Austin, The Head of Hitler is a spooky Post-War tale written and drawn by Rock Baker, with inks by Mark Heike, and The Killing Trail is written by Watkins, with art by Eric Coile and Bill Black

The collection also features three of the best of Miss Masque's actual Nedor Golden Age adventures; Cleopatra's Comb by Lin Streeter and Bob Oksner, Beware Gangdom by Lin Streeter, and Devil To Pay by Al Camerata and Ralph Mayo, plus a trio of the character's top AC-era appearances, featuring work by Bill Black, Dick Ayers, Mark Heike, Chris Irving, Ollie Drac, Rock Baker and Jeff Austin).

There is also a special three-page preview of Will Meugniot's great new N.E.D.O.R. Agents "series, set to debut in Femforce #157, that co-stars Miss Masque.