Phantom Lady Vs. The Walking Dead

Phantom Lady was the centerpiece of cheesecake comics in the Golden Age, and Matt Baker's stunning but sexy artwork made her the target of randy youngsters and raving fundamentalists. Back when she was actually wearing a mask, Phantom Lady got locked in mortal combat with none other than the Easter Bunny, but a few years later in 1947 she battled an army of walking dead, although not "The Walking Dead". In Issue #15 of her own title series from Fox Feature Syndicate, the heroine who dressed like a showgirl lost her mask and redid her yellow and green costume to be in traditional superhero red and blue with a cape. Secretly Sandra Knight, daughter of Senator Henry Knight, she leaps into action in her secret identity as the nasty villain serendipitously named Doctor Crime sicks his zombie henchman on Sandra's father. Phantom Lady is surprised to find her trademark blacklight project doesn't blind the zombie. Dr. Crime gives PL an exposition of his diabolical plan to take over America with shipments of fifth column zombies sent first class mail to all the major cities, even though the weird part is that he relays all this via a hypodermic needle, and he needs Senator Knight to be the spokesmodel for his undead regime. Dr. Crime takes the Senator hostage while Phantom Lady escapes to spread the word for American agents to set fire to the boxed zombie goons. Phantom Lady manages to save her dad and knock out Dr. Crime before he escapes. The superheroine never actually fights any of the army of zombies and only manages kill one of them by ramming a car into Crime's airplane blowing it sky high. For a debutante-turned-vigilante, Phantom Lady had better success fighting wacky criminals than genuine monsters.