Miss Masque's Ever-Changing Wardrobe

Miss Masque was an appealing character in her day that seemed to get more notice later on when she was being used by companies like Dynamite Entertainment as part of their teams of public domain superheroes, sometimes being renamed Masquerade. She began in 1946 under Visual Editions/Better Publications as part of their Nedor Comics line in the pages of Exciting Comics #51 where she followed in the steps of Phantom Lady as she was a rich debutante named Diana Adams with a double life as a costumed crimefighter. Miss Masque went on to appear in other Nedor titles like Black Terror, Fighting Yank, and America's Best Comics, sometimes shown with other various Nedor superheroes on the cover but wearing totally different duds inside the issue, even if she was fighting a dinosaur. That was the cryptic thing about Miss Masque is that she had several redesigns in her three-year run, like she had a crack team of wardrobe specialists redoing her look after nearly every case. Diana Adams had no superpowers, so she got by on her fighting skills and sharpshooting. It's possible her evolving outfit might have been a diversionary tactic to bewilder her enemies where the only thing that stayed the same was a red domino mask. She started wearing a matching red ensemble which was a wide-brimmed hat, cape, mini-skirt, and occasionally yellow gloves. Her top first had a double letter "M" logo planted vertically plus a single "M" on the front part of her hat, although she later got a revealing midriff and a belt buckled with another "M". Masque also changed her hat to a finned cap looking like she was a space cadet out of Planet Comics. She would shift variants throughout her Golden Age career as if she could never make up her mind for a specific image. A socialite that regularly alters her look is nothing unsurprising, but it's slightly unsettling to have someone change clothes that frequently, as if they had some kind of psychological disorder.