The Fall Girl

One of Joe Kubert's rare characters was that of Hollywood Stunt-Girl which was a space filler in first two issues of The Three Stooges by St. John Publishing in 1953. Jeanie Steele is a freckle-faced bleach-blonde stuntwoman on the set of a movie studio's latest western being directed by Mr. Schnotzelfritz, a stereotypical German with an outrageous accent. Handsome publicity agent Danny amazes at Jeanie's fortitude much to the dismay of the jealous actress Grace who wants him to pay attention to her. After Danny takes Jeanie out for the night, Grace is determined to win Danny's affections. A few days later, Jeanie is playing the part of a female football player which must have been a serious rarity back in the 50s, and Grace has a stuntman under her employee try to foil Jeanie's efforts but she's just too much for him to successfully take down without tipping his hand. Grace again tries to off Jeanie by sabotaging a motorcycle she's riding on that Jeanie manages to luck out of. One more time, Grace continues her vidictive plan by obstructing a chair lift Jeanie is on for another movie shoot, but she dives off 200 feet into some convenient water. Jeanie then walks up to Grace and pimp slaps her to the ground as she found Grace's lipstick left behind on the chair lift, threatening to turn her over to the police if she tries any of her devious diva plots again. The second issue of Three Stooges also had another short 5-page Stunt-Girl story, but this was after the series was enraptured in the brief 3D comics craze of the mid-50s, so unless you have a spare pair of old 3D glasses still lying around you won't be able to enjoy Jeanie's only other adventure. Hollywood Stunt-Girl might have had a slightly longer comics run with Kubert's amazing artwork, but the list of suspects in her own story were too limited to make this an ongoing mystery series.