Star Sapphire, Take 2

Yesterday, I shared the debut adventure of the Golden Age Star Sapphire. And today, we look at her second and final appearance of the era, from Comic Cavalcade #29 (November 1948).

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All that's left is her one-and-only modern appearance in Brave and the Bold #6 (March 2000), which provides an origin for Star Sapphire and even connects her with her Silver Age namesake.

I probably won't be posting the story here, but I encourage you to check it out when you get the chance.

Retro Debut: The Amazing Star Sapphire

After sharing the Super-Villains Then & Now retrospective the other day, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the original Star Sapphire's first appearance (All-Flash #32, December 1947-January 1948). I only have a fiche scan of the original, so these pages come from a reprint in Flash Annual #1 (Summer 1963).

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After this, Star Sapphire appears next in Comic Cavalcade #29 (November 1948) before disappearing into comic book limbo for over 50 years. And her one modern appearance (Brave and the Bold #6, March 2000) -- was more than a decade ago and probably isn't canon since the DC relaunch. So she's ripe for a comeback when Earth-2 stories start again.

Quest for Third Flash vs. the Thorn Story





The Thorn's dramatic debut
(Flash Comics #89, Nov 1947)

As many of you already know, the Golden Age Flash (Jay Garrick) faced off against the villainous Thorn (Rose Canton) two times before Flash Comics was cancelled. A third story was in the works but not published as a result.

Pages from that unpublished 10-page story have cropped up over the years, and the entire story is supposedly published in Robin Snyder's The Comics v6 #10 (though Snyder's own comments apparently cast some doubt on the accuracy of the issue number).

Though never fully published by DC, the story does impact the origins of Earth-2 legacy characters Jade and Obsidian, who are the twin children of Thorn and the Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott).

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I've only been able to get my hands on pages 1-3 (from Alter Ego v3 #4 & 5) and 9-10 (from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #113). I'm posting them here and hope that someone who has the remaining pages would be willing to share them.

"Strange Confession" page 1 (Alter Ego v3 #5)

"Strange Confession" page 2 (Alter Ego v3 #4)

"Strange Confession" page 3 (Alter Ego v3 #54

"Strange Confession" page 9 (Lois Lane #114)

"Strange Confession" page 10 (Lois Lane #114)