Issue(s): Shanna the She-Devil #2
Published Date: Feb 73
Title: "The Sahara connection!"
Credits:
Carole Seuling - Writer
Ross Andru - Penciler
Vincent Colletta - Inker

Review/plot:
Shanna is contacted by a SHIELD agent (nice twist seeing an African guy show up in a turban and turning out to be a SHIELD agent), and asked to help stop a plot by an Arabian drug lord and slaver. I'm no criminal mastermind, but it seems to me there must be easier ways to transport heroin than hijack a French space rocket. Shanna and her leopards do fine rescuing the slaves and preventing the hijacking.

In the letters page for issue #5, a reader complains about the fact that Shanna killed one of her jailors when escaping. I remember being a little shocked by that too, but Shanna isn't a super-hero, and i was actually impressed by the choice to have her kill. The response to the letter is that if it was Nick Fury who killed a guard while escaping, we probably wouldn't have blinked, which is probably true, and the fact that the jailor was killed by being eaten more or less on-panel by leopards makes the scene a lot more brutal than someone getting shot by a gun.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Cross-over: N/A

Continuity Implant? N

Reprinted In: N/A