Masquerade was known as Miss Masque during the Golden Age of comics. Originally published by Standard Publications, her first appearance was in Exciting Comics 51 (September 1946). She continued to appear in comics until 1949. She was a socialite crime-fighter whose two guns were her only powers.
She was recently reintroduced to a new generation in the Project Superpowers limited series. Here the new powers she gained from Pandora's urn include the ability to take on the form of any other person. She can now "Masquerade" as someone else.
But it's her own new four-part miniseries that has me intrigued. In the first issue, Phil Hester gives us a great story set in the post-World War II era.
We get some good back story and character development, guest-starring the Fighting Yank and the Black Terror. Our heroes fight a Nazi robot in true Golden Age fashion.
The plot here is far superior to any Project Superpowers-related books thus far. It's a self-contained story which nevertheless leaves you longing for more. If subsequent issues are as good as this one, I'm really going to love this series. It is very retro!
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