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Femforce #3
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1990)
Back in her Everglades sanctuary, Nightveil ponders her return to the outside world while Ms.Victory and She-Cat accept Tara's invitation to unwind on Jungle Island after their Amazon adventure. On their arrival, Janis tells Tara that some of the island's big cats have been poached.
Unknown to them, the poacher is Randall Crowley, a young Oceanus One scientist who has fled the undersea Utopia with stolen equipment, to the dismay of Comm. Faraday, Captain Freedom, and Crowley's girlfriend Riot O'Rourke.
Meanwhile, Crowley's activities in Jungle Island's subterranean caverns have been detected, and the team splits up to investigate. Ms. V and Janis are attacked in the lagoon by a giant squid that overpowers Ms. V as the V-47 drug wears off. Joan is rescued by Captain Freedom and taken aboard his sub as Tara and She-Cat fight Crowley's gang in the caverns.
-- Jeffr_2bya
The O-1 personnel know Crowley is acting on the whims of TV personality Stella Stargaze, but can't understand why.
Tara hangs onto Crowley's sub as he tries to escape, and the two are drawn into the maw of the giant squid.
- (Female Ar)
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Femforce #13
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1990)
Colt is almost killed on Jungle Island by a She-Cat maddened by the increasing power of Sehkmet over her soul. Colt is still confused over the exact nature of She-Cat's affliction and is troubled by her announced intention to kill herself if she goes over the edge.
Meanwhile, Capt. Tom Kelly visits the Burke home and tells Jen and David the secret behind Joan Wayne's long career as Ms. Victory. Jen quickly deduces that what Kelly is leading up to is for her to take Joan's place as the new Ms. Victory. Wanting nothing to do with the government, Jen throws Kelly out.
Rad taunts Tara, breaking the jungle girl's heart by mockingly appealing to the darker side of Tara's nature. Later, Colt works back on the mainland tackling a gang of crooks when she receives some unwanted - and deadly - assistance form the Black Commando. Barton takes off, and Colt is captured by an enslaved Nightveil before she can pursue. Nightveil, still under Crimson's control, then shows up at She-Cat's apartment and captures Claudette, taking her prisoner.
-- Jeffr_2bya
Back on Jungle Island, Tara, against Janis's protests, goes to search for Rad and finds her in the Jungle Island lab safeguarding her last supply of V-45.
- (Female Ar)
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Femforce #15
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1990)
In the nether-realm of Alizarin Crimson, Tara awakens from a dream to the sound and image of Janis Lawson romping playfully through Crimson's fortress. She pursues the fleeing figure and runs into Colt, who is also free of her prison. Guided by a mysterious form of mental energy, Colt leads Tara to the cell where Nightveil's astral spirit is imprisoned.
Crimson, who had been gloating over the fate of Dr. Pretorius at the hands of his own creations (which she controlled), spies the heroines' activity and moves to intercept. As she launches an attack on Colt and Tara, the mystical consciousness within Colt's mind leaves her and returns to its rightful owner, Nightveil.
Free, and seething with vengeance, the sorceress decisively defeats Crimson and explains to Colt and Tara how she had created the image of Janis and planted the consciousness in Colt's mind that allowed she and Tara to free her. Nightveil's satisfaction turns to panic as she remembers Claudette and her imminent possession by Sehkmet.
Her mystic vision sees that She-Cat has been transformed into a snarling, raging cat-beast. The young girl she menaces stands her ground and is able to help Claudette submerge the spirit of Sehkmet once again. Nightveil registers a shock of recognition when she learns that the young girl's name is Octavia.
-- Jeffr_2bya
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Femforce #16
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1990)
Mark, one of Claudette Meyler's students, shows up at her apartment and is brusquely rebuffed by a woman he doesn't recognize and who claims that Claudette no longer lives. The woman is actually She-Cat, transformed after her bond with Octavia Howard.
Meanwhile, off Jungle Island, Nightveil comes aboard Janis and Tara's boat and tries to get Janis to open up her feelings after her recent reconciliation with Tara. They are soon joined by Colt, but as she, Tara, and Janis drive through the jungle in a jeep they are attacked by government agents who do not know that the Femforce have been cleared of the destruction of the Fremont Building.
The outcome of the battle is uncertain until the odds are tipped by the unexpected arrival of the savage She-Cat. With the misunderstandings cleared up and the agents gone, She-Cat explains the nature of her bond with Octavia and why that bond will ultimately prove unstable - the youth formula Octavia developed is causing her to age backwards. Already a young child, she may not have much time left before ceasing to exist.
-- Visible Time
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Femforce #23
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1990)
At a top level government meeting, General Gordon plots with his staff to eliminate Rad by "untraceable means," fearing that her altered personality now poses a security risk. Capt. Tom Kelly, who objected to the plan and was thrown out of the meeting by Gordon, places an anonymous call to Colt to warn her of the plot.
The Femforce agree that the only way to save Joan is to wean her off the V-45 and convince the government that she is no longer a threat. Stardust enlists the help of her old allies in the Sentinels of Justice and the two teams set out in search of Rad.
The Femforce and Sentinels track her down and a brawl erupts during which Tara and the Scorpion are severely injured. The group succeeds in cutting off Joan from her V-45 supply, weakening her enough to fall to a knockout punch from Paragon. Joan awakens in the hospital two days later, powerless but with her youth and Rad personality intact.
She-Cat reaches out to her but is coldly rejected. Sorrowfully, She-Cat and Nightveil, Joan's two original comrades, slip away from the others and solemnly toast the memory of their old friend.
-- Jeffr_2bya
Joan, meanwhile, has employed her still-formidable scientific skills to develop a youth formula she sells from the back of a health-food store she has opened.
- (Female Ar)
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Femforce #24
Comic Book: AC Comics (1990)
Rad exposes several of the Femforce to a youth drug and turns the well endowed beauties into young teens. It stars off with great AR art and then turns into a fight between Rad and the other bad guys with the AR completely leaving the scene. Then in the last pages it returns, with the Femforce returning to adults with inevitable clothes tearing, and one of their female adversaries being turned into a child.
-- Visible Time
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Femforce #40
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1991)
Black Commando, who continues his quest for vengeance by kidnapping the infant Octavia Howard. Later, Lady Luger offers Rad refuge form the government in return for the restoration of her youth. Joan, still unaware of the old woman's true identity, readily accepts, marking the beginning of the end of her life as Rad.
-- Jeffr_2bya
- (Female Ar)
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Femforce #41
Comic Book: AC Comics (12/30/1991)
In a dimension parallel to ours lies a world dominated by women and ruled by a fascist female counterpart of our world's Paragon. By a freak coincidence, scientists of both dimensions simultaneously activate dimensional transporters being tested by both Paragons. The Fem-Paragon arrives on our Earth where she discovers to her disbelief that women are still struggling to achieve full equality with men.
She reacts violently, determined to impose her form of society on the world.
Even Rad, who had streaked up from Florida to protect her reputation, goes down easily, leaving only Synn to save the day. Using her illusion inducing mental powers, Synn creates the image in Fem-Paragon's mind that she has succeeded in conquering the world. In reality, she has been placed in a stasis chamber similar to the one in which Dan Barton was maintained for decades.
-- Jeffr_2bya
The Femforce are called in to assist, and they arrive in Washington just after Fem-Paragon has confronted the president and launched a media blitz that soon has women rioting in the streets. The male heroes Paragon and Atoman are easily defeated, as are the Femforce, who fight in defense of their government.
The infant Octavia Howard regresses until she is dead.