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'[[Image:luck1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Lady Luck. Art by [[Klaus Nordling]].]] '''Lady Luck''' is a [[fictional character|fictional]], [[United States|American]] [[comic-strip]] and [[comic book]] crime fighter and adventuress created and designed in 1940 by [[Will Eisner]] with artist [[Chuck Mazoujian]] (1917-2011). Through 1946, she starred in a namesake, four-page weekly feature published in a Sunday-[[newspaper]] [[comic-book]] insert colloquially called "The Spirit Section". The feature, which run through November 3, 1946, with one months-long interruption, was reprinted in comic books published by [[Quality Comics]]. A revamped version of the character will soon appear in publications from [[DC Comics]], including ''[[Justice League]]''.<ref>http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/sdcc-11-lady-luck-revealed-as-mystery-justice-league-member/</ref> FUCK ==Publication history== Created and designed in 1940 by [[Will Eisner]] (who wrote the first two Lady Luck stories under the [[pseudonym]] "Ford Davis")<ref>Horn, Maurice. ''100 Years of American Newspaper Comics'' (Gramercy Books, New York, 1996) p. 173)</ref> with artist [[Chuck Mazoujian]], Lady Luck appeared in her namesake, four-page weekly feature published in a Sunday-[[newspaper]] [[comic-book]] insert colloquially called "The Spirit Section". This 16-page, [[tabloid (paper size)|tabloid]]-sized, newsprint comic book, sold as part of eventually 20 Sunday newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million, starred Eisner's masked detective the [[Spirit (comics)|Spirit]] and also initially included the feature ''[[Mr. Mystic]]'',<ref name="wildwoodFP">[http://www.wildwoodcemetery.com/mrmystic.shtml Mr. Mystic] at Wildwood Cemetery: The Spirit Database. [http://www.webcitation.org/5vlbpR08k WebCitation archive].</ref> plus filler material. Writer [[Dick French (comics)|Dick French]] took over scripting after these first two episodes.<ref name="toonopedia">[http://www.toonopedia.com/ladyluck.htm Lady Luck] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]</ref> Later, writer-artist Nicholas Viscardi (later known as [[Nick Cardy]]) took over the feature from the May 18, 1941 strip through Feb. 22, 1942, introducing Lady Luck's [[chauffeur]] and assistant, Peecolo.<ref name=wildwoodladyluck>[http://www.wildwoodcemetery.com/ladyluck.shtml "Lady Luck"] at Wildwood Cemetery: The Spirit Database. Accessed January 16, 2010. [http://www.webcitation.org/5vlhztP8h WebCitation archive].</ref> Though his Lady Luck stories were credited under the house [[pseudonym]] Ford Davis, Viscardi would subtly work in the initials "NV" somewhere into each tale.<ref>[http://www.nickcardy.com/bio.php3 Nick Cardy official site: Biography]</ref> Writer-artist [[Klaus Nordling]] followed, from the March 1, 1942 to March 3, 1946 strip, when "Lady Luck" was temporarily canceled. After briefly being replaced by the humor feature "Wendy the Waitress" by [[Robert Jenny]], "Lady Luck" returned from returned from May 5 to November 3, 1946, under [[cartoonist]] [[Fred Schwab]].<ref name=wildwoodladyluck /> "Lady Luck" stories were reprinted in the [[Quality Comics]] comic book ''[[Smash Comics]]'' #42-85 (April 1943 - Oct. 1949), whereupon the series changed its title to ''Lady Luck'' for five more issues. Nordling providing new seven- to 11-page stories in ''Lady Luck'' #86-90 (Dec. 1949 - Aug. 1950), with [[Gill Fox]] drawing the covers. Occasional backup features were "[[Lassie]]" by writer-artist [[Bernard Dibble]] and the humor features "The Count", by Nordling, and "Sir Roger", by Dibble or, variously, [[Bart Tumey]].<ref>[http://www.comics.org/search.lasso?type=character&query=Lady+Luck&sort=chrono&Submit=Search Lady Luck] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref> Lady Luck was revived alongside Eisner characters John Law, Nubbin, and [[Mr. Mystic]] in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking'', a 2004 collection of new stories by writer-artist [[Gary Chaloner]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} On July 23, 2011, writer [[Geoff Johns]] announced that a new version of the character would be featured in his upcoming revamp (with artist [[Jim Lee]]) of [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Justice League]]''. <ref>http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/sdcc-11-lady-luck-revealed-as-mystery-justice-league-member/</ref> ==Character description== Lady Luck is the alter-ego of Brenda Banks, a young [[Irish-American]] socialite heiress, daughter of a mine-owner. Her costume consists a green dress, a large green hat, and a green veil in place of a mask. In some early versions representations of lucky charms hang from her hat brim. Like Denny Colt, hero of ''The Spirit'', she does not possess any [[Superpower (ability)|supernatural abilities]]. ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==References== * [http://www.johnlaw.us.com Will Eisner's John Law] official site ==External links== * [http://www.chancefiveash.com/ll86cover.htm Last of the Spinner-Rack Junkies: ''Lady Luck'' #86 (Dec. 1949): 11-page story by Klaus Nordling; cover art by Gill Fox], [http://www.chancefiveash.com/ladyluck1.htm "Lady Luck" four-page story by Klaus Nordling], and [http://www.chancefiveash.com/smash70ladyluckp1.htm "Lady Luck" four-page story by Klaus Nordling] *[http://pfeonline.tripod.com/21three1.html Pure Excitement Comics: "Lady Luck" four-page story with Count Dichange, by Klaus Nordling] *[http://www.comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=21383 Comic Book DB-Lady Luck] {{GoldenAge}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Luck, Lady}} [[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1940]] [[Category:Comics characters]] [[Category:Fictional American people of Irish descent]] [[Category:Golden Age superheroes]] [[Category:Quality Comics superheroes]] [[Category:DC Comics superheroes]] [[Category:Quality Comics titles]] [[Category:Characters created by Will Eisner]]'