Smash Comics 43 - Lady Luck's Elusive Star Turn

Smash Comics 43 - Lady Luck's Elusive Star Turn

Source: Bleedingcool.com
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The Golden Age comic book character Lady Luck is the creation of comics legend Will Eisner and artist Chuck Mazoujian. Mazouzian made his comics debut with the cover of Marvel Mystery Comics #2, and by the next year was working on Lady Luck for Will Eisner's The Spirit newspaper sections. 
The character has a typical and somewhat Batman-like origin story: Brenda Banks is a young socialite heiress and the daughter of a wealthy mine owner.  Frustrated with the idle complacency of her peers, she trains in martial arts and becomes a costumed detective, an "elusive enemy of crime".  This issue of Smash Comics with the first comic book Lady Luck cover comes up for sale surprisingly rarely.
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But long before that, Lady Luck made her first comic book cover appearance on Smash Comics #43, with cover art by Reed Crandall just an issue after her comic book debut in #42.  The character would not appear on a comic book cover until taking over the re-named title entirely over six years later, which makes this early cover an interesting little bit of the character's history. 
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Smash Comics #43 featuring Lady Luck (Quality, 1943)
Smash Comics #43 featuring Lady Luck
(Quality, 1943) 
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When the Smash Comics title became Lady Luck with the December 1949 cover-dated issue, the brief new series featured new covers by Gill Fox, and new Lady Luck stories by Nordling and Fred Schwab

 


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