When Last We Left Linda Carter...
No, not that Lynda (with a "y") Carter!
This Linda (with an "i") Carter!
...we had learned she has an important place in the Marvel Multiverse!
As Douglas Wolk, author of the monumental work All of the Marvels put it...
"Still, I think of (Linda Carter: Student Nurse), rather than Fantastic Four, as being where the collective Marvel story really begins, for three reasons.
The first is that it was part of Marvel’s first shared-universe, multiple-series crossover, which was published immediately after Fantastic Four #1—and didn’t involve any superheroes."
I'd add that this was the first crossover between non-superhero characters who would also later appear within the Marvel Multiverse!
"Still, I think of (Linda Carter: Student Nurse), rather than Fantastic Four, as being where the collective Marvel story really begins, for three reasons.
The first is that it was part of Marvel’s first shared-universe, multiple-series crossover, which was published immediately after Fantastic Four #1—and didn’t involve any superheroes."
I'd add that this was the first crossover between non-superhero characters who would also later appear within the Marvel Multiverse!
Without further adieu, here's the never-reprinted milestone from Atlas/Marvel's Patsy Walker #99 (1962)...
Both Patsy and Linda would later reappear in Bronze Age Marvel titles!,
...who had metamorphed into a were-cat using the name Tigra, and didn't need the outfit any longer!)
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Al Hartley (who, conveniently, happened to do those jobs on both the Patsy Walker and Linda Carter: Student Nurse comics!)
Patsy would play a supporting role in ex-X-Man The Beast's short-lived strip in Amazing Adventures before following him over to The Avengers and finding a technologically-advanced costume which enabled her to become HellCat, then joining the team!
She's been a part of the Marvel Multiverse (including the Marvel Cinematic Universe) ever since!
(Fanboy/Girl Note: the costume previously-belonged to a heroine named The Cat...
(I know, I know...TMI...but it's my blog, so bear with me!)
Linda, whose comic was cancelled after nine issues, would reappear in 1972...
Linda, whose comic was cancelled after nine issues, would reappear in 1972...
...ironically, the same year as The Cat debuted!
(Amazing how all this stuff overlaps, eh?)
But. before Linda disappeared for a decade, she crossed-over with another character who would also become part of the Marvel Multiverse!
Her final issue, #9 in 1963 featured someone visiting her comic...in the last Linda Carter story published!
Don't let the title deceive you...
Don't let the title deceive you...
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Al Hartley.
Millie the Model was, until its' cancellation, Timely/Atlas/Marvel's longest-running, continuously-published title, (207 issues from 1945 to 1973)!
Millie, along with Patsy (and Hedy) made their Marvel Universe debut in Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965) as onlookers at the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm.
Unlike Patsy, she never gained superpowers (except in a dream, as shown HERE), but has hung out with the Defenders, Dazzler, She-Hulk and The Sentry in their respective series as well as starred in a mini-series called Models, Inc about fashion models involved with superheroes!
But this mini-series is about Linda Carter.
Sadly, we've run our of room for this week.
Millie, along with Patsy (and Hedy) made their Marvel Universe debut in Fantastic Four Annual #3 (1965) as onlookers at the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm.
Unlike Patsy, she never gained superpowers (except in a dream, as shown HERE), but has hung out with the Defenders, Dazzler, She-Hulk and The Sentry in their respective series as well as starred in a mini-series called Models, Inc about fashion models involved with superheroes!
But this mini-series is about Linda Carter.
Sadly, we've run our of room for this week.
So, be here next Friday, as we explore the 1970s incarnation of our favorite RN as she becomes...
Night Nurse!
(And we'll tell you the other two things Wolk said!)
It's worth the wait!
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