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 to whip the secrets of Birdie out of him, but some of the lovestruck Airmaidens help to free him leaving Valkyrie to seek help from the junior birdman to stop her teammates from getting whipped. She tries appealing to her commanding office which he rejects causing Valkyrie to switch sides and escape with Airboy and the entire Airmaiden squadron. From this point on, Valkyrie became an ally of Airboy along with her all-girl gang now battling the Nazi forces and other bizarre threats, supernatural or otherwise, as well as being absolutely smitten with the blonde hero's good look which makes her the first comic book cougar as Airboy is roughly around fifteen at the time this happens where as she is at least a young adult. It's obvious that Valkyrie was modeled after Dragon Lady from Terry And The Pirates while also borrowing some from Air Fighters resident female flier, The Black Angel, so Valkyrie was like the steamier Catwoman to Airboy's Batman except she actually turned full good guy, as least for a while. Valkyrie's outfit had her wearing green tunic with absolutely no buttons whatsoever that totally exposes her cleavage making her one of the most eye-catching comic characters of all time which is iconic considering she's not even considered your standard comic book superheroine. For a femme fatale with a reverse-Lolita complex sporting an exposed plunging V-neck top that goes all the way down, Valkyrie truly is the original braless wonder.
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