FEMFORCE No. 51 1992- Now in full color for the first time! "In The Clutches Of The CLAW! Part 2" (Part 1 was in REDDEVIL No. 1 guest starring FEMFORCE). THE CLAW, one of the greatest villains of the Golden-Age of comics, captures MS. VICTORY and takes her to his hidden lair. Also guest starring many Golden-Age heroes like REDDEVIL, CRIMEBUSTER, THE AVENGER, YANKEE GIRL, MISS MASQUE,...

The FF's Rurian powerhouse celebrates her birthday, thinks back on her origin and muses on her future in "Stardust Memories", written and drawn by Richard (The Count) Rome, with finishes by Mark Heike. Then, the trail of The Black Shroud heats up, as Tara and Nightveil investigate what a sinkhole on Jungle Island has to do with the 'Shroud's plan, in "The Devil Below,...

In "The Devil Below, Part II", our heroes face actual hand-to-hand combat with The Black Shroud himself, in a cavern below Jungle Island. The odds just keep getting worse, with the arrival of the son of The Red Butcher, Psiborg, a doppelganger of Captain Paragon-then...enter, The Shade!!! Written by Rik Levins, Pencilled by Richard (The Count) Rome, and inked by John Dell. Guest...

It's time to do P. R. work on the Femforce image again, and Captain Tom Kelly gets the girls a spot on The Arsenio Hall show, to try to polish it up. But with the girls resentful of sudden new leader Jennifer Burke, the whole thing backfires when it degenerates into a cat-fight on national T. V. No villains are needed- the FF seem like there own worst enemies here. Colt leaves active...

New leader Jennifer gets tough with the rest of the FF, who make an uneasy truce in light of the coming battle with The Black Shroud. Meanwhile, another alliance may be forming, as the unstable Rad and the equally mad Black Commando seem to be getting together-and who is that third to join them? Can it be...Colt?!? While Synn makes psychic contact with The Haunted Horseman, a previously-unknown...

In the ruins of what was The Weir Asylum, revived heroes of old prepare to make a stand as The Black Shroud has freed countless villains to help him. "Up From The Ashes Rises...Death!" is written and drawn by Bill Black, with inks by Mark Heike. Guest-starring The Purple Claw, Miss Masque, Yankee Girl, American Crusader, Crimebuster, Captain Flash, The Black Owl, Frankenstein, Iron Jaw,...

Nightveil and Dragonfly rush to The Weir Asylum to aid the revived heroes stave off the hoard of revived villains, when who should appear but the Black Shroud's agent the Anti-Paragon, who whisks off Mirror Man, Frankenstein, Iron Jaw and all the other baddies through a dimensional portal. This untitled story is written by Bill Black, drawn by Richard (The Count) Rome, and inked by Mark...

Garganta is back, as a misguided "shock treatment" applied by the loose cannon General Gordon once again changes Dr. Carol Heisler into the giantess with the appetite for destruction. As she lays waste to most of central Florida, while holding off the Army, Navy and the Femforce, a strange thing begins to happen- she is mutating! But into what?? "The Return Of Garganta, The 50 Foot...

In a brief calm before the coming storm that will be The Black Shroud War, we see our cast in tiny, more personal snippets of their lives, "Scattered Moments", if you will. Jennifer Burke, the new Ms. Victory runs into newly-revived Jet Girl while testing her experimental flying disc. That leads into a look at Jet-girls' husband, Rocketman back leading his old company, which...

Under The Shadow Of The Shroud, Part 1 The opening shots had been fired, and now it's all out Shroud War ! Natural disasters hit, and every conceivable villain strikes, all across the world, orchestrated by The Black Shroud to bring down the heroes and bring about chaos. An impenetrable dome over Florida, constructed by The Shroud's magic, cuts off the FF from The Vault Heroes, The...

At the Western Hemisphere opening to the Well Of Souls, in the cavern below Jungle Island, The Black Shroud amasses a battalion of his villains to hold off the Femforce from crossing through to unite with their allies. Unknown to the combatants, Buckaroo Betty Bates has inexplicably been drawn to the present through the Time Triangle, and is having coffee with Nikki Latimer. At what's left of...

Under The Shadow Of The Shroud, Part III. The barrier that had cut off Florida from the rest of the world had been The Shade-a slave to The Black Shroud's commands. Darkfire is reunited with her Menta Helmet, and psychically calls to Synn and Buckaroo Betty to join her in guiding The Haunted Horseman to our reality- to stave off The Shade's attack. Meanwhile, Vault Heroes, Sentinels and...

Rad is out of money again, and when a mysterious Mr. Harcourt comes to hire her, she immediately takes the job. What is it? Why, to steal Dr. Jimenez' Time Triangle. Adopting the guise of the original Ms. Victory again, nothing could be simpler, as she flies into Latimer Labs, and they give her the 'Triangle with no questions asked! Things get hairy when it turns out Harcourt is really...

Jennifer (The new Ms. Victory) Burke is blamed for her mother's theft of The Time Triangle last issue, and has to do some fast talking. The rest of the FF are still not happy with her as leader, but all of that is forgotten when- The Black Commando comes calling! This untitled story was written and layed out by Richard (The Count) Rome, pencilled by John Nadeau, and inked by John Robinson. It...

She-cat's bond with "young" Octavia Howard may be weakening, as 'Cat is plagued with nightmares of blood. Tara is filled with regrets - when Jungle Island was wracked with upheaval during the just-passed Shroud War, her long time friend and colleague Janis Lawson disappeared. Now peace reigns and everything is back to normal, but Janis is still missing. Another night, and a...

Venturing into She-cats own mind to learn the secrets of the bonding process, Nightveil comes face to face with the cat god Sehkmet. While Stardust helps Tara search for Janis Lawson on Jungle Island, Nightveil attempts a new bond with She-cat- with the help of Synn and Jennifer. Meanwhile, the mad Black Commando is hunting down those he blames for his condition-why is Octavia Howard on his list...

What if there was a world, very much like our own, only a dimensional vibration away? What if it was like ours in all ways, except that the females were the hunters, the explores and the fighters, and the males took care of home and hearth? A world so much like our own, that they, too had a Paragon, but besides being a woman, she was also far more vicious and ruthless than our own? And what if...

It's Halloween night, and the Femforce are taking a rare evening off to enjoy the festivities. And, as She-cat herself says, what's Halloween without a witch? Well, they've got one this year as Alizarin Crimson takes the opportunity to attack, turning harmless-looking little trick-or-treaters into horrible, malevolent monstrosities. "Trading Places...Or Which Witch Is...

When you have mobile cameras and optics that let you keep every square inch of the globe under constant surveillance, nothing much gets by you. So when the man known as Captain Video (Soon to be chaged to Videxx) sees an impending alien invasion, he can warn the Femforce. And when that invasion force is a troop of giant Amazonian women, you can bet the FF high-tail it down to South America to...

A giant Tara, a giant Nightveil and a giant Garganta (wearing nothing but a couple of strategically-placed starfish, no less) is too much for any invading army to handle, even the Gammazons. "Gammazons From Galaxy G, Part II" is written by Bill Black, drawn by Brad Gorby, and inked by Mark Heike. So, when GTS NV blasts their mother ship, the threat is ended. Of course, with Garganta in...

Something has been wrong with Nightveil for months now, and no one has been more aware of it than her brother, Roger (The Avenger) Wright. When NV taunts him with a stunt that could cost him his life, new found love interest Miss Masque can barely save him. Enter Azagoth to expose the imposter who has been playing Nightveil's part all this time, and The Haunted Horseman to haul her away to...

Countdown To Victory #5 With a V-47-deprived Rad held as captive, the now young and super strong Lady Luger plots with Fritz Voltzman to impersonate Rad. While Colt and Jennifer (the new Ms. V.) get closer to the truth, Singapore Sal and her band of cutthroats return to dry land, intent on ransoming Janis Lawson. When Paragon gets wind of this scheme, he and Harry Diamond conspire to set up the...

Countdown To Victory #4 A freak attack on the limbo void by a strange being may mean freedom for the recently-consigned Alizarin Crimson, while the weakening Rad turns the tables on Fritz Voltzman by reversing Lady Luger's own scheme, to trick Fritz into giving her a dilute version of the V vitamin. Suspicious as to what his wife has been up to, David Burke thinks he's on her trail, when...

Countdown To Victory #3 There's finally a face-off between the phony Rad (Lady Luger ) and the real thing- a knock-down, drag-out battle at an abandoned amusement park. While Stella Stargaze tries to advance her plan to use giant woman Garganta as a cash cow, the giantess gets wind of things and goes on a rampage. Alizarin Crimson and Capricorn plot more devilment in his home dimension, while...

Countdown To Victory #2 While the giantess Garganta stomps through Orlando, the battle between the two Rads takes an unexpected turn . Knockout gas from Fritz Voltzman puts the real Rad back in Lady Luger's clutches. Jennifer blames the government for husband David's serious injuries, but when he sees her consoled in the arms of Captain Tom Kelly, that's little solace. At the worst...