Golden Girl
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- Not to be confused with "The Golden Girls". For other uses, see Golden Girl (disambiguation).
Golden Girl (Betsy Ross)
| Golden Girl | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Captain America Comics #1 |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Betsy Ross |
Publication history
Marvel Comics' first Golden Girl, Elizabeth Ross, first appeared, without yet a superhero identity, as Betty Ross in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941). A supporting character who appeared in occasional stories, she succeeded Bucky as Captain America's sidekick in issue #66 (Dec. 1947), in the 12-page story "Golden Girl", by an unconfirmed writer and by penciller Syd Shores. Golden Girl appeared in Captain America stories through issue #74 (Oct. 1949), except for issue #71, and also in the Captain America stories in Marvel Mystery Comics #87-88 and #92 (Aug. & Oct. 1948, June 1949).She was not specified as having been related to a Colonel Ross, a U.S. Army officer, in the Captain America story "The Wound No Man Could See" in Marvel Mystery Comics #88 (Oct. 1948).[1] The 2010 miniseries Captain America: Patriot retroactively revealed that she was the aunt of General Thunderbolt Ross, and the great-aunt of his daughter Betty Ross, two characters introduced in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962).
Fictional character biography
Immediately before and during World War II, Betsy Ross was a member of the U.S. Army's Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and later worked as an FBI agent. She became a friend and later girlfriend of Army Private Steve Rogers, unaware of his dual identity as Captain America. She had adapted her name slightly to Betsy Ross — the name of the U.S. colonial-era woman to whom legend ascribes sewing the first American flag — by the time that Captain America's sidekick, the second Bucky (Fred Davis) was shot and wounded. This third Captain America — Jeffrey Mace, who'd succeeded the M.I.A. Rogers and the killed-in-action William Naslund — revealed his civilian identity to Ross and trained her as his new partner, the costumed crime-fighter Golden Girl. After a handful of adventures, culminating in a battle with the Red Skull in Hell,[2] Ross and Mace retired, and were married by 1953.[3]References
- ^ The Grand Comics Database at its ''Marvel Mystery Comics #88 entry, queries, "Col. Ross (Golden Girl's father?)"
- ^ Captain America Comics #74 (Oct. 1949)
- ^ The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe vol. 2, #5 (April 1986).
- ^ Citizen V and the V-Battalion' #2 (July 2001)
External links
- Grand Comics Database
- All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update 2 - Adam II to Zodiac (May 2007)
- International Catalogue of Superheroes: Golden Girl
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Golden Girl was one of the girl sidekicks they gave the main Marvel ( then Timely ) superheroes in the late forties, along with "Sun Girl" for the Human Torch and "Namora" for the Submariner.
I don't pay much attention to the story about different Captain Americas, which is something they came up with later on to explain why they still had Captain America around during the period that he was supposed to be in suspended animation according to the later comics.
Even before Golden Girl replaced Bucky as Captain America's sidekick, the previous issue had hinted of things to come.
I'd go for that keen brunette myself.
Bucky is shot! Who will save the comic book now?
The same blonde they always have in these comics, except that they don't always have her, for some reason.
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Incidently, it's not supposed to be the same brunette, although it looks as if it was.
Golden Girl continues in her new role for the next several issues. This is #67.
This is #68.
#70 had an invasion from Mars, something they'd also done in an earlier issue.
In issue #71, Bucky was brought back.
Issue #72 found Captain America and Golden Girl taking a fantastic voyage through a man's mind.
And issue #74 found them facing "The menace of the deadly dreams", which sounds as if it ought to have been related to the other story, though it wasn't.
Meanwhile, Captain America and Golden Girl also appeared in MARVEL MYSTERY.
MARVEL MYSTERY 87
These have her in a red and blue costume instead of a yellow and green one.
MARVEL MYSTERY 88
MARVEL MYSTERY 91
Golden Girl was missing from the last issue that actually had a Captain America story. Unless you count the girl on the cover, who wasn't to be found anywhere inside.
But the last issue of the original run still had a blonde on the cover who could be Golden Girl, although neither she nor Captain America actually appeared in any of the stories inside.
CAPTAIN AMERICA #76
The last appearance of Betsy Ross in the old comics forgot about her role as Golden Girl in the earlier stories.
Betsy Ross was revived along with Captain America in 1954, but they said she was a girl reporter instead of a secret agent. Art by John Romita.
MODERN APPEARANCES OF GOLDEN GIRL
The "Golden Girl" in WHAT IF #44 didn't wear the same costume, but appeared to represent the original Golden Girl associated with Captain America. The Captain America she's with, however, is supposed to be an impostor who is defeated by the real Captain America. But if the "other" Captain America who fights him in the story is the "real" one, why are all these friends of Captain America with the wrong one?
"Hangman" was a character the Archie comics company had as a superhero. Marvel comics used the version showed here as a villian in other comics.
MARVEL ADVENTURES #37 at least had Golden Girl back in her old costume, even if the art looked kind of funny.
This story changed a lot of details, stating that the adventure was set in 1954 ( which was after the actual "Golden Girl" comics ) and mentioning Baron Zemo ( who they didn't have till the 1960's comics ).
Somehow, the later comics fail to provide us with a satisfying conclusion.
But we know what REALLY happened-
THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!
THE END!!!
Reblogged from http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/3937 :
Martin O'Hearn says:
“Golden Girl” and “The Enigma of the Death Dolls” were written by William Woolfolk. I’m transcribing his script sales records on my blog at the rate of one or two months (his time) per week (our time). In a couple of our months I’ll progress from 1945 to the 1947 entries that include those stories. A number of his Timely scripts are hard to track down because the editors there came up with titles completely divorced from his tentative ones. He described “Golden Girl” as “Cap gets new partner”; that one, at least, was easy enough to match up.
Read about this period in the comic book in the Kirby Museum:
Marvel Wikki For Betsy Ross:
Marvel Wikki Index For Betsy Ross:
Marvel Adventures #37 Preview:
Syd Shores:
Willaim Woolfolk:
Benny,
ReplyDelete"The Mystery of the Deadly Dreams" was in Captain America Comics #73 (not 74). Captain America's Weird Tales 74 had "The Red Skull Strikes Again!" (the story where Cap goes to Hell).
I think everyone in the "Freedom Five" was an imposter, not just their Cap and Golden Girl.
Hope this helps!
Golden Girl appeared in Captain America stories through issue #74 (Oct. ... captainamericagirl.blogspot.com
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