Princess Pantha & Early Femdom Comics

Princess Pantha & Early Femdom Comics

Continuing my consideration into the early influences of femdom on our shared psyches – I’ve been looking at comic book heroines of the 1940’s and there seems to be have been a plethora of scantly clad jungle girls battling it out: Judy of the Jungle; Kara Jungle Princess; Sheena Queen of the Jungle; and my favourite Princess Pantha. The archetype character seems to embody the notion of an athletic yet wild woman, who has rejected civilisation and ‘returned to nature’. Plus they’re women who don’t wear very much 🙂

Princess Pantha’s comic book adventures appeared in Thrilling comics from 1940-49. Pantha is a circus performer who becomes stranded in Africa while hunting a white gorilla, she soon looses her clothes and we see her in her trade-mark leopard-skin bikini.

I love Princess Pantha’s snooty expression and the movement implied in the last one as she beats up the hunter. The artwork for the Thrilling comics covers are quite exceptional – Pantha’s sexiness, her facial expressions and the almost 3D effect of the art work.

Princess Pantha was inspired by the also famous comic book Jungle girl, Sheena Queen of the Jungle who was the female Tarzan. Sheena went on to have her own TV Series, staring model Irish McCalla as Sheena which was aired in the 1950s.

I have also included above some other ‘dominant’ women from comics of the period.