Bastille Day
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To celebrate Bastille Day, let’s take a moment to remember that most famous of all French leaders of the resistance, that paragon of French female fighters: Madomoiselle Marie. (For reasons of brevity and not-having-to-spell-long-French-words, she is usually referred to in the comics as Mlle. Marie.)
The Resistance must rescue the men of a neaby village who were captured by the Nazis.
I love the way the local French populace speaks in that horrible accent, even when talking amongst themselves.
The village men have been resuced and now Marie’s team must create a diversion so that the Allies can land behind enemy lines. When the men won’t help, she destroys the train herself.
Mlle. Marie appeared in Star Spangled War Stories from #84 (August 1959) until #91 (July 1960); these scenes are all from Star Spangled War Stories #87 (November 1959) . Since then, Mlle. Marie has appeared sporadically in other titles, though nothing recently. (However, one Batman story did suggest that she bore Alfred a daughter). More information on Mlle. Marie can be found at Toonopedia.
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July 14th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
I wonder what happened to Phantasmo, the Gaullist “Vision” last seen in
Young All-Stars.
PS: It’s Mademoiselle Marie.
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