Valkyrie, The Braless Wonder
Valkyrie was pretty much the Bad Girl before Bad Girls were even a thing. The Bad Girl was a type of anti-heroine in comics that famously rampaged across the market during the 90, even though Valkyrie helped get that engine started in the late-80s thanks to Eclipse Comics' efforts to bring her back into the spotlight. Her trait which gained the most attention was that she almost never wore a supportive undergarment for her voluptuous chest which was given greater detail thanks to pin-up artists like Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens. Premiering in 1943, Valkyrie was fetchingly designed by Fred Kida for Air Fighter Comics by Hillman Periodicals as an adversary for Airboy who was a young pilot that fought for the Allied forces in WWII in his custom bat-winged plane called Birdie. Originally named Lisellotte von Schellendorf, Valkyrie earned her moniker leading an elite team of all-female German pilots known as the Airmaidens. In their first encounter, Valkyrie captures Airboy and tries ...