Sheena's fourth favorite weapon? Leopards.

Based on the Grand Comics Database's gallery of covers for Jumbo Comics, Sheena's weapon of choice seems to be her knife. When it comes to long-range weapons though, she'll often resort to a spear or bow and arrow.

Or, if she doesn't have a spear or bow and arrow handy, she'll resort to using leopards—alive or dead—as projectile weapons.

Here, we see Sheena placed in a trap by the villainous Scarlet Arrow, so she must choose between being attacked by a leopard or triggering a volley of arrows from an arrow-shooting machine. Sheena lures the leopard into triggering the machine, its pouncing body blocking the arrows, and then she uses the now dead leopard to take down Scarlet Arrow like so:
How far do you think she threw that leopard at him? Twenty feet? Thirty?

In another instance, she's forced to fight two leopards at the same time, so she does the only sensible thing, and grabs one of the leopard to throw at the other one:
Not quite as much distance on that toss, but then I didn't see either of those leopards get up after that panel either.

I haven't watched 1984's Sheena: Queen of the Jungle since I was a kid, but I don't remember there being very much leopard-throwing in it...

Both of the above scans are taken from The Best of Golden Age Sheena Vol. 2, which I promise to now shut up about. For now.

Monday Morning (Wo)Man vs. Cephalopod Moment(s)

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle vs. a giant octopus that lives in a river in Africa for some reason!


Sheena, Queen of the Jungle vs. a giant squid that lives in a river in Africa for some reason!


Sheena, Queen of the Jungle vs. an...octosaur fish...? Actually, I'm not sure if it's a cephalopod or not, but it has tentacles and lives under water, so I'm going to allow it.



(All of these Sheena vs. underwater, tentacle-having animal battles occur in Devil's Due Publishing's The Best of Golden Age Sheena Vol. 2, which is awesome)

Jules Feiffer's Superheroes Week: On disliking Wonder Woman

"My problem with Wonder Woman was that I could never get myself to believe she was that good. For if she was as strong as they said, why wasn’t she tougher looking? Why wasn’t she bigger? Why was she so flat-chested? And why did I always feel that, whatever her vaunted Amazon power, she wouldn’t have lasted a round with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle?

"No, Wonder Woman seemed like too much of a put-up job, a fixed comic strip—a product of group thinking rather than the individual inspiration that created Superman. It was obvious from the start that a bunch of men got together in a smoke-filled room and brain-stormed themselves a Super Lady....I see now that my objection is just the opposite of Wertham's: Wonder Woman wasn't dykey enough."

—Jules Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes