American Update: Marvel XX Month – the Enchantress & the Valkyrie
*Marvel: Our focus on Marvel’s female stars continues with a duet of debuts from the celestial halls of Asgard. In Avengers #83, the mysterious Valkyrie stirred up some (petty justified) resentments in the hearts of the Wasp, the Scarlet Witch, the Black Widow and Medusa and forged them into the Lady Liberators, a team determined to enforce – equality by any means necessary! Needless to say, it was all a wacky scheme by the Enchantress, who used the captive essence of the real Valkyrie (don’t ask) to trick the heroines into rebellion – but subsequently both the Valkyrie herself, and the Lady Liberators team, have returned on multiple occasions. This copy is FN p at £40. And sticking with the Enchantress, we travel further back along the Rainbow Bridge to Journey Into Mystery #103, when she and her cohort, the Executioner, made their debuts. Amora remains one of the most powerful female figures in the Marvel Universe, and one of its few early villainesses who didn’t reform and become a heroine – at least, not yet! Journey Into Mystery #103 is VG+ p at £75. Watch for another Marvel female debut next week!