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I've just done some digging through my Archive Editions, focused on John Forte's art era, focused further on his obscure female characters. Without listing issue numbers, and without descriptions, see if you can figure out who I'm describing.....

*Autograph Girl
*Redheaded Applicant in Green
*Dr. Landro's Hot Nurse (okay, she has some LW cred....hello Cobalt Kid!)
*Lovey Dovey
*Gossips at Crypt Lass
*Miss Doll World
*Sun Woman (okay, sometimes they're actually named already!)
*Xennian Girl
*Miss Famished Far Planet
*Try Again Lass
*Character Anaylysis Monitor Maiden
*Bad Bad Mom from Khann
*Kissandra
*Leta Lal (has she appeared again, maybe in Superman stories?)
*Dr. Hanscom's Urgent Nurse
*Markita (grossly overlooked for the XGF Model competition)
*Actress from "The Terrible Cyclopean Creature" Lass
*Vorn Woman

I have to admit that a couple obscure women from John Forte's run were left off this list...namely Queen Azura and Nila, but that was because they have both had major parts in Pinup Model competitions.

Right now, I'm just interested in discussion, but I imagine that the favorite five of this list could readily become the next set of competitors in a Pinup Model challenge....

If I were to pick my top five from this list, they'd be:

Dr. Landro's Hot Nurse
Miss Doll World
Sun Woman
Kissandra
Actress/Cyclopean...

IF....

Paging Nightcrawler....
I created this thread *really* late at night/early morning, and I went to sleep thinking about it. I dreamed that you'd created little graemlins for each of these ultra obscure Fab Forte Girls. Isn't that a neat dream?

I need to look up who some of these people are!

Okay, I own perhaps one or two of these and I haven't had a copy of any Archive in my hands in years, but here goes:

Autograph Girl: izzat autograph signed by a DUPLI-WRITING STYLUS?

Dr. Landro's Hot Nurse: well, she's a starlet on the Legion board, so her fame has far surpassed non-hot Doctor Landro.

Lovey Dovey: that's no lady, that's my grife!

Sun Woman: I believe I recall her outfit & head adornment, but heck if I can remember her story.

Khann Mom: Of course! "Madam, please have your little fiends play with their balloon toys elsewhere!" Or words to that effect.

Kissandra: From Romance Valley RK-somethingsomethingsomething(?).

Markita: the one who, with any luck, aced her Flying Ed classes?


I wonder if any of the unnamed lasses were...Josephine?

Maybe during Christmas holiday, till then I'll be lucky to be home before 7pm (after going to work at 7am).

I'll be scanning and posting pictures of them when I get a chance. I'm into it.

Nighty, no worries! It can stay on the back-burner. No big hurry. I think about stuff for LW at night a lot, but it was cool to have an actual dream about it!

I still haven't written down all the issue numbers they appeared in, but I did scan the images! Remember, MOST of the names of these characters are made up!

I still don't remember Try Again Lass!

Is it just me or does Autograph Girl look freakishly like Hilary Swank?

I think a reasonable way to get to know these girls better is to examine them just a couple or few at a time....

So, I'll begin with Autograph Girl.
She debuted in Adventure Comics #301, "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy." This is the story that also debuted one Lester Spiffany.

I might have made a mistake by only scanning that one, single autograph hound... there were several in the crowd outside the upside-down rocket ship hq that day. In fact, I'm going by the Archive Edition #1 copy of the story, and there are actually 3 different redheads shown on that page. The one I posted and another one are wearing the same shade of violet, but are clearly two different girls. I wonder if someone with the actual original issue could let us know if the coloring was different, originally. It matters! (To some of us, anyway.)

Yes, indeed, Lightning Lad uses the Dupli-Writing Stylus to sign "thousands of autographs simultaneously." No writer's cramp for Garth! Everyone came with their "sensitized scripto-plates" so it seems like there was no problem with not getting an "original" autograph. I wonder if those gadgets are like what we use at the check out at some stores, now?

So, what do we know about these Autograph Girls? The Legionnaires feel both honored and annoyed by them. They chuckle and smile, but then they put up a force-shield around hq so they won't be "disturbed by too persistent admirers." That is SO like today's celebrities! Wow. The fans did all agree to leave once the sheild was up, though one guy was pushing against it.

EDE thought the girl above looks like Hilary Swank. It might be my scan, because looking in the book, I don't see that similarity as much. As much fun as it might be to make Autograph Girl into a fanatic, stalker type, she's actually just a nice girl.

Redheaded Applicant in Green also debuted in ADV. #301. She has a bouffant hairdo that rivals Lydda's and wears a green ensemble which is VERY form fitting! (The girls's stacked, okay!) She persisted in her try-out even after watching Lester Spiffany and Storm Boy get rejected. She had a couple of lines, which basically reinforced how famed and honored the Legion is. She was shocked to learn that Chuck had been rejected before he was accepted.

We never got to learn any more about her, like what her power is or her name. We know that she is determined and respectful. She's a scene stealer. I mean, she was surrounded by guys the whole story, she never vamped it up, nor shyed away. This makes me think that she has a power that gives her great confidence.

Of course, being a redhead in green makes me think she's of Irish descent. Imagine her saying this with an Irish accent, "The super-heroes are famed... and honored... all over the universe!!"
I can totally "hear" it that way!

I actually missed a couple of fun Obscure Girls from ADV 301... there's a girl with a wacky triangle shaped hairdo laughing at Chuck, in one panel. She actually thinks the "bouncing checks" comment another man made was funny. I'd imagine giving her a Joan Rivers or Kathy Griffin type of personality. Mocks Others Lass? Harrass Lass?

There was also a cute young lady working in the box office outside the Robot Gladiator Tournament stadium. Box Office Betty? Ticket Mistress?

Dr. Landro's Hot Nurse was in Adv #303, "The Fantastic Spy." A lot has been said about her in other threads, but let's be clear, she's HOT! She seems to be pretty professional, but her gaze will go right through you!

Lovey Dovey, as I call her, was also in ADV 303. She is Chameleon Boy in disguise. He and Cosmic Boy dressed as a honeymoon couple in order to deliver the Doomsday Bomb, via Earth Tube, to the other side of the planet. The story's more complicated, but the bomb was stolen from them.

I love how Cham chose to look like a total knockout of a woman, with all the bright blue. He/she tells Cos not to get too close, or else, yet he/she fems it up by cooing over how thrilling the ride is, "darling." C'mon man, you loved being Lovey Dovey!

There's another woman in the tube-car, a raven haired beauty, who has a sort of distant look in her eye as she takes her freeze-pill. She seems kind of interesting. "Travels Medicated Lass?"

The two girls outside of Lightning Lad's crypt are kinda gossiping about Saturn Girl, which seems like they're judging her, being mean, but they might actually care about how she feels. It's hard to tell.

They're both very pretty, decked out in good jewelry and glamorous outfits. Other people in the crowd look very sad. They have less emotion on their faces. It's hard to tell what they're thinking/feeling. Are they just Legion fans, trying to get a glimpse? Are they opportunists, trying to meet a Legionnaire when he or she is down?

They wonder what Saturn Girl's thinking, but Saturn Girl is crying, wiping her eye with a hanky. Maybe these girls are kinda dumb? Clueless Lasses? Missed Their Cue Maidens?

This will take some more thought....

If I remember correctly. Lovey Dovey is actually Chameleon Boy telling Cosmic Boy not to get fresh.

I remember the Sun Woman story. Night Girl leads a revoly in order to gain Legion Membership.

I can't really remember all of them.

I wonder if Red Haeded Applicant is really Iresa stalking Bouncing Boy.

"Come Josephine... in my time machine..."

Popular 30th century song.

See Antennae Lad's first appearance.

In Adventure #310, "Doom of the Super-Heroes," the Legion went in search of Mask Man, who ended up being a descendant of Mxyzptlk. They went to Doll World, where Shrinking Violet met a pretty little lady. She instantly referred Vi to Ak Aru, the wisest man of their people, their Papa Smurf, if you will.

Miss Doll World has the short stature of the people of her home, plus she's sexy! She's got a curvy body, in a tight sweater, she wears high heels and a mini skirt. Her hair is fire red and long and neatly styled.

Forte could have drawn Vi meeting any kind of character you can think of, but he chose a hottie! Actually, was this Vi's choice? Out of everyone in that city, she chose HER to ask. Hmmm....

In Adv. #315, "The Legionnaires' Super-Contest," the Legion is impressed by the Subs, so they give each of them a chance to compete to win a spot in the actual Legion.

Night Girl meets her *perfect* arch-nemesis, Sun Woman. SW has become the evil tyrant of the planet Vannar, by using super powers drawn from the sun. Lydda knew that Sun Woman wears a harness, an invention stolen from a great scientist, in order to gain those powers. Okay, right away I suspect it was Lydda's *father* who invented that thing! That's how Lydda knew so much about it. (Of course, that could have all been public info, but I like my scenario better!)

Night Girl defeats Sun Woman by blotting out the sun with the smoke from burning a particular black rock, and she dramatically cuffs her and flies her off to justice!

Sun Woman is well...HOT! She has a sexy curvy body. She wears a skimpy one-piece costume with heels. That harness has keen glowing points on the shoulders, and she wears that kitchy sun headdress behind her head, with her blond hair pulled back. She has a nasty look on her face all the time with those evil, flared eyebrows. A grand vampy bad girl!

Thanks! Interesting. I'd be curious to look for background characters whenever a time machine appears....

Quis,
I don't think the redhead is Iresa stalking Chuck, because he was fat then. Didn't she only date him when he was thin?

Maybe she only dates people with dramatically different weights than herself! So when she was thin, she stalked chubby guys, but once she gained weight herself, she only dug skinny guys!

Or mayber not...