Moon Girl is a fictional character published by

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from 1947 to 1949. Moon Girl is a character from the

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and has since passed into the

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. Her secret identity is Claire Lune, a junior high history teacher. Like

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, Moon Girl was the princess of an isolated tribe of warrior women in

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, and fought evil in her telepathically controlled flying moonship. Her powers derived from a

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. Her love interest was Prince Mengu, who tried to invade her kingdom in Samarkand, but became her companion and fellow teacher in America.

Publication history

Bill Woolfolk and

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created the character and debuted in fall 1947's ''The Happy Houlihans'' #1. After that appearance, the character was immediately spun off into her comic, ''Moon Girl and the Prince''. The original EC ''Moon Girl'' title went through multiple name changes (and a final genre change) as explained by Mark James Estren in his ''A History of Underground Comics'': ''Moon Girl and the Prince'' lasted a single issue (fall 1947), and ran as ''Moon Girl'' for issues #2–6. It became ''Moon Girl Fights Crime!'' for two issues, before concluding its run as ''A Moon, a Girl...Romance'' with issues #9–12. Moon Girl appears only in the story "I Was a Heart Pirate" in issue #9 (Sept-Oct 1949) and no subsequent issue. The series continued as ''

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'' beginning with issue #13. The Moon Girl story is one of two credited with starting the trend in horror comics at EC. In 2010, Moon Girl was revived as a

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title by Tony Trov, Johnny Zito and Rahzzah. This new story was then published in printed form as a five-part comic book series by Red 5 Comics starting in May 2011. It depicted Claire Lune as a foreign princess living in the

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. This iteration of the character had powers granted by a moon rock.

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