Tygra Against The Roman Empire

Tygra was another Sheena copycat that sprouted out during the Golden Age. Having a year-long run in Nedor Publishing's Startling Comics, Lynn Thomas was a typical blonde American girl whose plane crashed into the African jungle. A tribe called the Fire People inducts her as their goddess figure, and she gets a bonus above other jungle queens by taking a drug that gives her permanent super-strength. Lynn adopts the name Tygra and acts as the local sheriff along with her hunky boyfriend Terry, all while she sports a quintessential tiger-skin bikini. One of her more superlative adventures was in Issue #50 where she allies herself with Professor Ransome who is exploring the jungle for the last descendants of Romans sent on a mission by Caeser two millennia ago. Tygra, Terry, and the Prof. in due course find the missing Romans lead by the skimpy siren Nerea Caesar doing her best Cleopatra impression. Nerea immediately became jealous of Tygra's gorgeous gold hair and enslaves her while the boys are drafted into the Roman army. In jail, Terry meets Ruthus, the son of a slain consul who tells him Nerea came from the outside world and took over their hidden village with plans of living up to her Ceaser namesake by plotting to conquer the world armed only with a town full of displaced Romans with limited means. Terry tries to explain how hopelessly outmatched Nerea is with her insane scheme, but the egotistical empress poo-poos the civilized man's efforts even after showing her his pistol that he only just then decides to use which would've been more helpful in an escape attempt. Tygra snatches Terry's gun after he is carried off by guards and uses it during a colosseum fight to show the other Romans how full of it Nerea is. The Romans depose Nerea and decide to go back to having senators which is a small step up from tyranny. Tygra almost becomes a secondary character in her own story despite her supernatural robustness and being armed might have shortened the 9-page story having her just go full jungle commando on a small town of Romans lost to history, or at least easily take out their delusional despot.

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