The original femme fatale! Six stories featuring the sexy masked manhunter -- prowling the soundstages and penthouses of 1936 Hollywood. A beautiful young woman falling in and out of love, scarred by personal tragedy, who vows to dismantle a crooked political machine -- one corrupt official and ruthless gangster at a time.Steranko provides a new cover, but its the "title page dramatizations" that electrify this collection. Steranko revives the Domino Lady with the beauty and style in which she was created by pulp artist Norman Saunders. Each double-page illustration introduces a story with art deco magic and astract mystery. Describing the illustrations can't do them justice -- but Steranko certainly does justice to the lovely Ellen Patrick, alias the siren of justice, Domino Lady.Stories by Lars Anderson, illustrations by Steranko. Six stories, Steranko cover and title pages, original pulp illustrations, afterward "Who Was Lars Anderson?" by Will Murray.

"Compliments of the Domino Lady!" In order to avenger the murder of his father, socialite Ellen Patrick donned a domino mask and evening dress and packed a .45. Running for six rare stories in mid-1930s pulp magazines, these stories remain elusive. Now, these are collected in an affordable edition, complemented by an all-new Afterword by pulp historian Tom Johnson.

(E) Lori Gentile Los Angeles, the 1930's. The city of angels. Just beneath the surface is a city stinking of corruption with criminal bosses and politicians squeezing the life out of the city. Stunned by the murder of her crusading politician father, socialite Ellen Patrick determines to bring her father's killers to justice - at any cost! Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes The Domino Lady, one of the sexiest - and most elusive - crime fighters of all time. Nine tales of one of the world's first female masked crime fighters.

Pulpdom's Sexiest Avenger! The Domino Lady first appeared in the pulps in 1936. After graduating from the Berkeley College in California, Ellen Patrick goes off to Europe on a joy filled jaunt. Her trip is cut short when her widowed father, D.A. Owen Patrick, is murdered by gangsters. Upon her return home she learns the corrupt authorities have no intention of finding her father's killers. Thus she puts on a domino mask and a backless white dress to avenge him. Though arming herself with a small .22 automatic and a syringe full of knockout serum, the Domino Lady's most effective weapon was her sensual beauty, which often distracted her opponents until she could turn the tables on them. Now new pulp writers, Greg Hatcher, Gene Moyers, Tim Bruckner and Kevin Findley offer up four brand new adventures of Los Angeles' most notorious, and sexiest, crime-fighter of them all, the Domino Lady!

"The city of angels. attracting beautiful people from all over the world with its glitz and glamour. But just beneath the surface is a city stinking of corruption with criminal bosses and poiticians squeezing the life out of the city. Stunned and enraged by the murder of her crusading politician father, beautiful socialite Ellen Patrick becomes determined to bring her father's killers to justice ... at any cost. A talented Berkley graduate, she knows that to truly fight the men who killed her father, she must break all the rules. Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes The Domino Lady, one of the sexiest, and most elusive crime fighters of all time."--P [4] of cover.

"With a slinky wardrobe of a '30s starlet and the arsenal of a state militia, Domino Lady thrusts her double D's where few crimefighters dare! When a criminal pied piper releases the city's primal nature, daring Domino goes undercover- baring all in the name of the law! A steamy flipside takes Domino's juicy adventures to the jungle"--Cover.

Bully, brawler, mercenary, spies! The Marvel Universe's hottest new team is on the scene! When Domino and her pals Outlaw and Diamondback find themselves caught between warring nations, they'll have to call on a whole new crew of international women of mystery to sort it out! But can the newlyminted Hotshots survive the arrival of the Merc with the Mouth? Picture it: Six undercover, highly trained, armed-to-the-teeth women hunting a device from space that will change life as we know it - but when Deadpool crashes the party, more than just the mission might be blown sky high! Witness the birth of the Hotshots in intriguing international espionage adventures that'll have you on the edge of your seat! COLLECTING: DOMINO: HOTSHOTS 1-5