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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House. She was the first female comic book character with her own title, with her 1937 (in Great Britain; 1938 in the United States) premiere preceding ''Wonder Woman'' #1 (cover-dated Dec. 1941). Sheena inspired a wealth of similar comic book jungle queens. She was predated in literature by Rima, the Jungle Girl, introduced in the 1904 William Henry Hudson novel ''Green Mansions''. Sheena was ranked 59th in ''Comics Buyer's Guide''s "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. An orphan who grew up in the jungle, learning how to survive and thrive there, she possessed the ability to communicate with wild animals and was proficient in fighting with knives, spears, bows, and makeshift weapons. ==Publication history== Sheena debuted in Joshua B. Power's British magazine ''Wags'' #1, in 1937.〔(Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. (Archived ) from the original November 10, 2011〕 She was created by Will Eisner and S. M. "Jerry" Iger of the comic-book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of studios that produced comics on demand for publishers and syndicates, and whose client Editors Press Service distributed the feature to ''Wags''. To help hide the fact their studio consisted only of themselves, the duo signed their Sheena strip with the pseudonym "W. Morgan Thomas". Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel ''She''.〔Archive of Heintjes, Tom. ("Will Eisner's The Spirit: The Wildwood News, Chapter 2 - Setting Up Shop" ), AdventureStrips.com. Reprinted from ''The Spirit: The Origin Years'' #2 (Kitchen Sink Press, July 1992). (Original page )〕 Sheena first appeared stateside in Fiction House's ''Jumbo Comics'' #1, and subsequently in every issue (Sept. 1938 – April 1953), as well as in her groundbreaking, 18-issue spin-off, ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' (Spring 1942 – Winter 1952), the first comic book to title-star a female character.〔 Sheena also appeared in Fiction House's ''Ka'a'nga'' #16 (Summer 1952) and the one-shot ''3-D Sheena, Jungle Queen'' (1953)〔—the latter reprinted by Eclipse Comics as ''Sheena 3-D'' (January 1985) and by Blackthorne Publishing as ''Sheena 3-D Special'' (May 1985). Blackthorne also published ''Jerry Iger's Classic Sheena'' (April 1985). Fiction House, originally a pulp magazine publisher, ran prose stories of its star heroine in the latter-day pulp ''Stories of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' (Spring 1951) and ''Jungle Stories'' vol. 5, #11 (Spring 1954).〔(Sheena (character) ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 Blackthorne in the 1980s published original Sheena stories in the three-issue series ''Jungle Comics'' (May–Oct. 1988).〔(''Jungle Comics'' (Blackthorne Publishing, Inc., 1988 Series) ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 A version of Sheena, transplanted from Africa to South America, appeared in London Night Studio's ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' one-shot comic book and subsequent four-issue miniseries (Feb. 1998 – Spring 1999). As well, AC Comics publishes Sheena reprints as well as reprints and some new stories of the jungle femmes that followed in her wake. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheena, Queen of the Jungle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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