No Need For Nomad Queen

Former American Army Air Force pilot was a post-WWII flyer that operated under the handle Safari Cary who moved to Africa to give arial tours in his plane laughingly called Jungle Belle. Created by Edmond Good who also made jungle comic legends like Rulah: Jungle Goddess, his character would run into weekly activities that probably inspired the 80s show, Tales Of The Gold Monkey, which on its own was just an Indiana Jones wannabe. One of Cary's shorter adventures was in Fox Feature's Dagar Desert Hawk #20 as he vexes the venomous Nomad Queen, a bikini-clad temptress who was so sexy that she superseded her husband as chieftain of a tribe of thieves that accepted her as their leader simply because she was so hot. The chieftain silently escapes to Cary's place so he can warn him about his clan's plan to attack the local village. Cary revs up Jungle Belle to scout the nomads from the air and spooks them by buzzing them, but his plane conveniently gets motor trouble which forces him to land near an oasis for water. Nomad Queen tries to lure Cary to the dark side as her overly eager guard captures him. The seductive siren is about to behead her prisoner when the ex-chieftain randomly shows up and assassinates her with a rifle. Cary then just unties himself and skedaddles out of there while all the other nomads are scrambling for the position of grand poobah figuring that they will simply eat themselves alive leaving no unified batch of bandits to worry about. Safari Cary is barely the hero of his own story and more like a plot device for helping one villain get revenge on another villain, although the Nomad Queen did make some kind of impact on him as he claims she was "some pumpkins" proving that exposed cleavage can seriously sway a voter's pick.

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