Nightveil
Posted: December 8, 2009 at 11:54 am | Tags: nightveil
| Name | Laura Wright |
| Birthdate | December 4, 1920 |
| Birthplace | Washington, D.C. |
| Height | 5′7″ |
| Weight | 127 lbs. |
| Hair | Black |
| Eyes | Blue |
| Measurements | 36 – 23 – 35 |
Laura Wright, a.k.a., Nightveil, first began fighting crime in 1942. Back then she was known as the Blue Bulleteer and she battled crime and the Nazis with only her natural agility and her twin .45’s.
Her initial career as the Blue Bulleteer came to an abrupt, and almost final, end in the early 1960’s but she was saved from certain death by Azagoth, a sorceror from another dimension looking for an apprentice, who taught her the mystic arts. Returning to earth as Nightveil, she is now so powerful that even her old friends in the Femforce sometimes feel uncomfortable in her presence.
Information from “Knockouts and Powerhouses” the Superbabes Role Playing Game Supplement, copyright 1994 by Selex, Inc.
Laura Wright, the daughter of Senator Thomas Wright of Florida, was born in Washington, D.C., to a household accustomed to the trappings of power. As a 21-year old debutante, she began a romantic relationship with Dan Barton, a government operative during World War II who fought a covert battle against the Nazi’s as “The Black Commando.” Dan was teaching Laura the tricks of his trade in order that she could be his professional, as well as personal, partner when Laura received word that Dan had been killed in a mission. Resolving herself to carry on in his stead, Laura continued to train and donned the crimefighting persona of the Blue Bulleteer. Her agility and expertise with the nickel-plated .45’s on her hips made her a thorn in the side of the Nazi’s for the remainder of the war and led to her becoming a founding member of the Femforce.
After the war, Laura continued to fight crime as the Blue Bulleteer but over time her prowess faded and eventually she found herself with her back to the wall, her bullets spent, as the kind of thugs she had spent a career defeating closed in for the kill. It was then that Azagoth, a powerful sorceror from another dimension, intervened and saved her life. Azagoth offered to teach her the intricacies of spellcasting and a gratified Laura Wright agreed to become his pupil. She spent years in a pocket dimension of Limbo learning the mental discipline required to manipulate magical energies and, when her training was nearly complete, Azagoth gave her the mystic Cloak of Darkness, a legendary power source, as a gift. Armed with her new powers of sorcery, Laura returned to this world and began her crusade against the wrongs of the world anew as Nightveil. Rejoining her former compatriots in the Femforce, Nightveil is most likely the most powerful entity on this planet. However, her great power has come at a cost to her humanity.
Blue Bulleteer:
Laura trained night and day to wage war against America’s enemies in Dan Barton’s place. To the world at large she was a flashy socialite, but unknown to the populace she was in reality a masked avenger, grimly meting out justice to criminals and Nazi spies alike. Not long after she entered the war effort, she had her first encounter with Lady Luger and the villainous Nazi’s Fifth Columnist thugs. Lady Luger would prove to be the Blue Bulleteer’s main foe during World War II and their clashes have been represented in several AC stories. Below is the opening splash page of the first story ever penciled by Mark Heike for what would become AC Comics.
After the war ended, the Blue Bulleteer continued to fight crime and evil in the world around her. In 1956, she foiled a plot to kidnap her father, Senator Wright. In the aftermath, she found what would have been the ransom note directed to her as the Blue Bulleteer. Curious she followed the instructions, only to find that it was a trap set by the wizard Rocksorr in order that the greatest enemy of his pupil, a young child named Lenore Gault, might be eliminated.
The Blue Bulleteer was able to escape the grisly fate Rocksorr and the young Lenore had in store for her with the help of an unseen benefactor. However, she escaped never understanding how she could be the greatest enemy of the young child she had never met. She also couldn’t suspect that in a few short years her crimefighting career as the Blue Bulleteer would end.
Azagoth:
By 1960, Laura Wright had been fighting crime as the Blue Bulleteer almost 18 years, but time had taken a toll and, at age 40, she wasn’t as young as she used to be. She’d lost a step most others never had, but despite her years of experience, she was no longer at the top of her game…and the stakes were high. The difference between life and death can be a thin line when you’re facing off against the bad guys and losing that extra step can be fatal! So it was that one night the Blue Bulleteer found herself with her back against the wall and all her bullets spent as a group of armed thugs closed in to make their infamous reputations.
Nightveil:
After returning to Earth as Nightveil, Laura felt that her awesome power was slowly draining away her sense of humanity. So, she placed a spell on herself which temporarily stopped her from being able to use all her powers and she attempted to resume her role as the Blue Bulleteer. However, unused to not being able to rely on her sorcery, her return to life as the Blue Bulleteer was short-lived and she reluctantly donned the guise of Nightveil once again. Still, her desire to remain human persisted and her enemies, like Alizarin Crimson, used her innermost fears against her.
Nightveil’s fears concerning her possible corruption by the great power which she wields are not unfounded. When she appears to succumb to the dark side, the threat she poses can be frightening for even the most powerful of superheroines.
Nevertheless, it is the villains who have the most to fear from the Sorceress Supreme…and fear her they do. Her awesome might has earned her many enemies and, out of respect for her power, plans for world domination must start with a means to eliminate her as a threat. Her foes usually attack through her fears or desires and are only successful when they can catch the unsuspecting Mystic Maiden with her guard down.
However, even when she has seemingly been defeated, Nightveil’s innate courage and dogged resolve have always served her well, allowing her not only to survive situations such as being lost in the starfield of her mystic Cloak of Darkness but to eventually prevail.
Rogues Gallery:
Lady Luger battled the Blue Bulleteer during World War II and she has battled Nightveil in the present. During the Yesterday Syndrome, the Nazi fiend was even successful in sending murderous volts of electricity through Laura’s body with some help from the Shroud.
Umbra is a Voodoo Priestess who was hired by the crooked trustee of the Wright estate to eliminate Nightveil when the Sorceress returned from her studies in Limbo and reestablished her claim to the Wright property holdings. Umbra’s black magic struck the mystic maiden down but, with the help of the Shade, Nightveil was able to defeat the voodoo queen and save her own life, earning Umbra’s everlasting enmity.
For Gorgana, possession of Nightveil’s Mystic Cloak of Darkness means unlimited power, even the power to make her ghoulish form beautiful, and that makes the monstrous witch a persistent enemy.
In 1956, a young witch named Lenore Gault and her mentor, a wizard named Rocksorr, tried to kill the Blue Bulleteer. What Laura didn’t know at the time was that she would one day become Nightveil and the little girl would become the evil sorceress, Alizarin Crimson. The malevolent witch’s efforts to destroy Laura and become the dominant sorceress on Earth have reached through time and space and Alizarin Crimson is unquestionably Nightveil’s arch-rival.
Julie Michaels has been chosen to play Rayda in the movie adaptation of AC Comics’ Femforce. The image above contains pictures of Ms. Michaels as Rayda with her AC Comics counterpart.
Rayda is a human dynamo. With the aid of her protective containment suit she has learned to control her electrical discharges and she has become an important contributor to the Femforce in their battles. Rayda’s nervous system is unbelievably efficient, generating massive electrical discharges when called upon and increasing her reaction time and muscle control. She can process electrical energy that she comes in contact with for her own use, and can generate bolts from her eyes, her hands, or in a field across her entire body. She also rides a custom motorcyle powered by her own electrical discharges.
Rayda is a human dynamo. With the aid of her protective containment suit she has learned to control her electrical discharges and she has become an important contributor to the Femforce in their battles. Rayda’s nervous system is unbelievably efficient, generating massive electrical discharges when called upon and increasing her reaction time and muscle control. She can process electrical energy that she comes in contact with for her own use, and can generate bolts from her eyes, her hands, or in a field across her entire body. She also rides a custom motorcyle powered by her own electrical discharges.
Information from “Knockouts and Powerhouses” the Superbabes Role Playing Game Supplement, copyright 1994 by Selex, Inc.
It was during World War II that the savage She-Cat first teamed up with the all-female team of heroines named the “Femforce” by Eleanor Roosevelt. While her nature is to be catty, the support of Rio Rita, the Blue Bulleteer, and Ms. Victory earned her everlasting trust and friendship! For almost 60 years she’s fought crime and evil and her loyalty to her teammates in the Femforce, both new and old, cannot be questioned.
For many years, She-Cat could only keep Sekhmet from gaining control of her soul by undergoing a ritual bonding with the soul of another strong-willed person. From Gautama, to Joan Wayne, to Octavia Howard, to Laura Wright, she needed help to control the evil within her while retaining her powers. On those occasions when the bond was broken, the devastation unleashed on those around her was horrific!
She-Cat has been known to be CATty around other women and her flirtatious behavior around men has sometimes led to charges that she’s CATting around! Those kinds of accusations, coupled with her prickly disposition, have led to several CATfights where the fur was really flying! It’s the same combination of her aggressive nature and quick temper that has her leaping into battle as if she were launched from a CATapult! Of course, when things are purring along just fine, she can be as cute and cuddly as a kitten. A slinky, long-legged, agile sex kitten who…ah…uhm…best if I leave that last part out. I wouldn’t want to fall victim to a CATastrophe!
The Shroud is evil incarnate but when his plan to eliminate the Femforce was on the brink of success it was She-Cat who foiled his plot!
Born on the planet Rur many light years away as Mara, she possessed that world’s top scientific mind. When war broke out between the Rurians and Kronons, a Rur expedition was sent to Earth to retrieve Paragon to fight for the Rurian cause. In awakening Paragon from his comatose state, Dr. Mara’s equipment was able to store a mixture of stellar energy and a backlash of Paragon’s own excess paranormal powers. Mara used this energy to transform herself into the superpowered being known as STARDUST when Paragon balked at fighting for the Rurian cause. Eventually she convinced Paragon to help, but it was her new-found powers that ultimately made the difference in vanquishing the Kronons.
After defeating the Kronons, Stardust came to Earth as Paragon’s protege. Almost immediately, she and Paragon were faced with the threat of Chromo and the Vardax invasion. The two heroes did not face the threat alone, however. Commando D and his young friend Denny, Nightveil, and the Scarlet Scorpion also found themselves in the fight. The five heroes banded together to repel the invaders and defeat Chromo and the Sentinels of Justice were formed. The team next faced the mystery of Paragon’s true origin but the heroes, while remaining friends, largely stopped working as a team when both Nightveil and Stardust joined the government sanctioned Femforce full-time.
Femforce:
can be argued that Dusty shares much of the blame for Jennifer’s hard feelings toward her, but Rad herself can be said to have driven her husband, David, into the arms of another woman. Ultimately, who is at fault doesn’t really matter as even a seemingly rehabilitated Rad doesn’t regard her former compatriot with anything that could be mistaken for warm affection.
Constantly being on the losing end of every battle against Dusty, losing her position as commander of the Rurian armed forces, and being banished from her home planet, have done nothing but fuel Proxima’s hatred for Stardust and anyone who aligns with her.
As you can see, Synn can be pretty clever in using her hallucinatory powers. They make her a force to be reckoned with despite her seeming like an airhead. At left, after the other Femforcers had been battered senseless by FemParagon’s physical strength, Synn explains how she used her powers to trick FemParagon, resulting in the alien’s capture.
Ms. Blair is a California based actress and model who has appeared as Synn on numerous occasions.
Synn’s efforts to help the tragically disfigured former girlfriend of Rip-Jaw backfired and earned her the leather-clad No-Nose Nanette’s distrust.
Alizarin Crimson
Okay, so he’s not much of a “rogue.” Still, Synn’s powers did create him and, for a tasty treat, he has a heck of a temper. Pencil in Yumm! as one bad ice cream monster!
A citizen’s group that didn’t like the misconduct of the youth. They tried to impose their own vesion of morality on those unfortunates they considered undesirable.
These “religious” men considered the life of Silva Synn to have been a total waste and saw only wickedness. They felt no wrong in ending her life, especially if her death could be a service to mankind!
A few years later, Rio Rita Farrar (the grand daughter of the original Rio Rita) was lost in the heart of the Amazon jungle while escorting Dr. Carlos Jimenez and his invention, the Time Triangle, to the United States. Since the mission involved tracking and jungle survival, Joan Wayne contacted Tara, an expert in both subjects. The mission was a success, due primarily to Tara’s involvement. After that, she was invited to join the Femforce and has been a member of that group ever since.
From her very first adventure with the Femforce, Tara has shown herself to be a capable and resourceful heroine. She’s a remarkable athlete, having spent much of her adult life honing the skills to survive and thrive in the jungle. She is also quite proficient in the use of hunting knives, and is quite adept at hand-to-hand fighting techniques. A master tracker, Tara stalks foes from concealment and strikes quickly and efficiently.
In the pages of Good Girl Art Quarterly’s Summer 1991 Issue, the producer of a Span-xx infomercial slipped Tara the “Garganta” formula. The effect was supposed to be temporary, but it’s never worn off. After the initial shock, Tara came to view her power as a good thing and it helps her self-esteem to not be the only member of the Femforce without a “super” power!
Stella Stargaze has been a thorn in Tara’s side since the day she first used the “Hypnotic Eye” to attract the amorous attention of Tara’s dad, T.C. Fremont. Stella’s more a person of few redeeming qualities than a villain, unless you count her love of fur and her efforts to drive a wedge between Tara and her father as evil. Tara does!
By far, Tara’s most longstanding foe is the evil Dr. Rivits and his equally nefarious daughter, Roxanne. From Tara’s earliest days on Jungle Island, she has constantly battled the Doctor’s mad schemes for world domination and his attempts to use her island as a base. The Rivits Family has captured her, tortured her, and left her for dead on a number of occasions, but she has always managed to survive their demented plans. Most recently, father and daughter drugged her and tied her to a giant slingshot, attempting to catapult her to her doom. Only Synn’s timely intervention saved the Jungle Girl.
The creature known to the AC Universe as, Frightenstein, has throttled poor Tara within an inch of her life on several occasions. The monster has taken a liking to her but he just can’t stand rejection!
