Vampirella VS. the Superpowers

 

Also grabbed from the local library - maybe a little surprisingly, but I suppose they probably have items that are more provocative in their collection.

Of course, I have been a fan of Vamp ever since I discovered the scantily-clad vampire (and I have - or had, not sure since everything is in storage - a collection of her Warren comics) and most variations on this theme have worked in one form or another. This time out, it's a whole new world - literally. We are on a parallel Earth in 1948 where super powered beings have existed since the early 1900's and initiated and ended the two world ("super") wars and besides "natural" supes, there are beings that have supplanted their natural powers with either technology or "elixirs", which can be temporary (for use in the armed services) or permanent. Supes have become part of the world, one way or another, and are even running for president!

Vamp is from another world and has been tasked to covertly attempting to rid this world of the elixirs so that it can evolve more naturally - or maybe the supes of Vamp's world just doesn't like the competition? In any case, there is plenty of intrigue, lots of violence, this world's super-agency more or less chasing the same thing as Vamp (containing supes and the illegal elixirs) and colliding with Vamp and her cohort Dyna Might, and, of course, lots more.

Pretty decent tale, actually, and if I remember correctly, Vamp was initially an alien from another world, so that is in keeping with the original mythos, in its own way. Certainly worth a read and makes me want to dig out my old books!