BLOODY MARY

Real Name: Mary (last name unrevealed)

Identity/Class: Human (North Korean) (Post-World War II Era)

Occupation: Communist guerrilla

Group Membership: Korean People's Army

Affiliations: Her band of guerrillas

Enemies: Cookie Novak

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile in Korea

First Appearance: Combat Kelly I#21 (April, 1954)

Powers/Abilities: Bloody Mary was a skilled combatant and saboteur, demonstrating skill with explosives, pistols and automatic weapons.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'6")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 121 lbs.)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black

History:
(Combat Kelly I#21/3) - Bloody Mary led four guerrillas into Able Company's ammo dump and set off explosives inside one of the shacks. As Cookie Novak and other soldiers reacted to the attack, the other guerrillas were killed. A flaming jeep was sent to roll into the ammunition but Cookie blew up the jeep with a grenade before it reached its target. Finally, Bloody Mary sent an orphan child with a torch to set the ammunition ablaze but Cookie tackled the child and stopped her.

As Cookie tended to the orphan, Mary brought more guerrillas and in a few days launched another attack. Cookie ventured out at night to battle the guerrillas and killed Mary's subordinates. Mary managed to ambush Cookie and was about to kill him when the orphan, who had followed Cookie, made a noise which distracted Mary. Cookie overpowered Mary and took her prisoner.

Comments: Created by an unidentified writer (possibly Hank Chapman) and Robert Q. Sale.

    All Asian femme fatales owe a great debt to Milton Caniff and his creation, the Dragon Lady, from the newspaper comic strip Terry and the Pirates.

    Cookie reacted to Bloody Mary as though she was someone he had met before but that's not the case. Perhaps she was supposed to be the same person as Red Mary?

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Bloody Mary should not be confused with:

• Bloody Mary - one of Typhoid Mary's alternate personalities--Marvel Comics Presents I#150
• Bloody Mary - leader of the Bacchae--Fantastic Four III#7
• Chu San - Spy Fighters foe--Spy Fighters I#11
• Comrade China - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#14
• Han River Helen - Iron Mike McGraw foe--Marines in Battle I#1
• Kaesong Katie - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#10
• Kima - Doug Grant foe--Spy Cases I#15
• Korea Katie - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#13
• Lee-Sik - Iron Mike McGraw foe--Marines in Battle I#1
• Ling - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#28
• Manchuria Mary - Battle Brady foe--Battle Brady I#11
• Muktong Mollie - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#19
• Nita - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#15
• General Olga - Buzz Brand foe--Battle Action I#11
• Panther Lady - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#23
• The Pearl of Pyongyang - Battle Brady foe--Battle Action I#8
• Pusan Polly - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#24
• Red Poppy - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#17
• The Snake Lady of Sinyong - Combat Casey foe foe--Combat Casey I#18
• Sweet Lotus - Doug Grant foe--Spy Cases I#14
• The Wasp - Battle Brady foe--Battle I#25
• Yalu River Rosie - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#7
• or any other beautiful Asian communist women

Appearances:
Combat Kelly I#21/3 (April, 1954) - unidentified writer, Robert Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 01/06/2023
Last updated: 01/06/2023

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