Helen Rachel Schlacter

It's not often an actress can play a character, then play the character's aunt 24 years later. and finally, the character's adoptive mother 7 years after that!
Helen was the first actress to play Supergirl / Kara Zor-El in any medium in Supergirl: the Movie (1984)!
In 2008, she played Kara's aunt, Lara-El (mother of Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman), in two episodes of Smallville! (She also appears in a documentary on the Season 7 Smallville DVD set entitled "Supergirl: Last Daughter of Krypton")
And, most recently, in 2015, she was Eliza Danvers, adoptive mother of Linda Danvers / Kara Zor-El / Supergirl)
And she still looks...well...SUPER!

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Which Includes a Listing of Her TV/Movie Credits!

Halle Berry IS Ororo Munroe aka Storm in X-Men: Days of Future Past

It's MY blog, and I felt like running these pix of +Halle Berry!
You got a problem with that?

Didn't think so!

Almost the entire primary cast of the +X-Men Trilogy will be appearing in the new film except the currently-dead Cyclops (+James Marsden) and Jean Grey (+Famke Jansen).

It's unlikely +Kelsey Grammer or +Alan Cummings will reprise Beast and NightCrawler.

PHANTOM LADY in "Army of the Walking Dead"

It's almost Halloween, so here's some Matt Baker "good girl" art! Plus: Zombies! Doctor Crime!

The splash page of the story is the inside cover of the comic, with only two colors.

Oh, did we mention ZOMBIES???

Enjoy...

"America comes first, even before Dad!"--Phantom Lady's Words to Live By!
Doctor Crime (not to be confused with The Crime Doctor), despite being the first supervillain the Fox incarnation of Phantom Lady fought, never returned.
When this story from Fox's Phantom Lady #15 (1947) was reprinted as the cover feature in IW's Great Action Comics #8 (1958), the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover printing plates, only the interior plates for this issue!
As a result, the editor retitled the story "The Zombie".
The new cover was a combination of two redrawn story panels and a badly-rendered (and mis-colored) Phantom Lady.
The new cover art is attributed in the Grand Comics Database to Jack Abel and Sol Brodsky.

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PHANTOM LADY in "Vortex of Scoundrels and Scandal!"

Page 1 of the story is the book's 2-color inside cover.

More Matt Baker "good girl" art in the first of three stories from Phantom Lady #14!
Enjoy!

When this story was reprinted as the cover feature in Daring Adventures #12, the splash page was left out, because the reprint publisher didn't have the cover printing plates, only the interiors for this issue!
FYI: Covers (on slick paper) and insides (on newsprint) are printed on separate presses and combined later.
Because the splash page was missing, the reprint editor didn't know the original title, and renamed the story "The Great Stamp Robbery"!
The splash page above is blue and black, not four-color, because, until recently, inside covers of comics were either b/w or 2-color, with the second color being either cyan (blue, as in this case) or magenta (pinkish-red).
Since the plates for the cover weren't available, a new cover by Joe Simon was commissioned, which was nowhere as nice as the original Matt Baker cover, and features Sandra Knight's boyfriend Ted being much more heroic than in the actual story!
You can see one of Matt Baker's 1950s romance stories at our sister blog True Love Comics Tales.
For those interested in writer Ruth Roche and / or artist Matt Baker, the books below will be of interest.

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PHANTOM LADY in "Knights of the Crooked Cross"

MORE Phantom Lady action from her first issue...

Classic "good girl" cheesecake art by Matt Baker.
The writer is probably Ruth Roche.

The other feature in this issue was a Blue Beetle story.

The Phantom Lady will return...

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MORE Mowrys! MORE Mowrys! MORE Mowrys!

Because you demanded them (their previous post is among our top 5 of all time!)
Tamera Darvette Mowry & Tia Dashon Mowry Hardrict
from the late 1990s to 2005!

Congratulations on their new show, Tia & Tamera!