LADY JUSTICE

This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the character Lady Justice.

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #1 (Sep 1995)

Title: Hope & Dread

Writer: C.J. Henderson

Synopsis: The disembodied female epitome of blind justice is revealed to be capable of endowing superpowers on suffering women. Those ladies can then use their greater than normal strength, enhanced hearing and smell, plus their uncanny skill with enchanted swords and/or guns to avenge themselves on those who wronged them.

NOTE: The concept is like an exclusively female version of the 1989 creation the Crow, but in this case the people temporarily animated by Lady Justice are not dead. In this debut story Janine Farrell, a woman in a wheelchair, is inhabited by Lady Justice to get revenge for the murder of her two brothers.

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #2 (Oct 1995)

Title: Stepp’d in Blood

Writer: C.J. Henderson

Synopsis: The incorporeal Lady Justice urges her formerly crippled avatar to now pursue the criminal bosses above the men behind the killing of her brothers and the innocent bystanders who got caught in the crossfire.

After leaving a pile of dead bodies in her wake, the avatar of Lady Justice resolves to follow the predatory chain of command all the way to the top of the particular organization she is currently at war with. 

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #3 (Nov 1995)

Title: More Wretched Than He Who Suffers

Writer: C.J. Henderson

Synopsis: This issue opens up with a quote from Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil – “In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”

The Janine Farrell Lady Justice kills her way to the mastermind – a publicly respectable hospital administrator. Janine’s despair over being returned to her wheelchair when Lady Justice moves on to seek a new human avatar makes for a very dark ending.

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #4 (Dec 1995)

Title: Wrong Time, Wrong Place: Part One

Writer: Wendi Lee

Synopsis: Sylvia, a Latina in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang just to survive. She passes her violent initiation and gets the street name “Beauty”. 

Witnessing injustice after injustice fills her with a passion to right all those wrongs, which attracts Lady Justice, who makes the young woman her latest avatar.

This storyline lasts for three issues as well. Sadly, the cover art is the most outstanding feature of the Lady Justice series. The stories are cut and paste atrocities followed by bloody orgies of revenge killings. Lather, rinse, repeat.  

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #5 (Dec 1995)

Title: Wrong Time, Wrong Place: Part Two

Writer: Wendi Lee

NOTE: As I mentioned above, soak in the cover art from Daniel Brereton. 

Unfortunately, the writing never even rises to the level of the sequel comic books to the original edition of The Crow.

LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #6 (Jan 1996)

Title: Wrong Time, Wrong Place: Part Three

Writer: Wendi Lee

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #7 (Jan 1996)

Title: The Chains That Cannot Bind

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #8 (Feb 1996)

Title: Ravish’d Justice

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #9 (Mar 1996)

Title: Humanity, Reason & Justice

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #10 (Apr 1996)

Title: Her Face in the Light

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #11 (May 1996)

Title: The Courage to Strive

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #1 (Jun 1996)

Title: Slow Death

Writer: C.J. Henderson

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #2 (Jul 1996)

Title: Control Freak: Part One

Writer: Rich Rainey

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #3 (Aug 1996)

Title: Control Freak: Part Two

Writer: Rich Rainey

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #4 (Sep 1996)

Title: Control Freak: Part Three

Writer: Rich Rainey

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #5 (Oct 1996)

Title: Control Freak: Part Four

Writer: Rich Rainey

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*LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #6 (Nov 1996)

Title: Woman About Town: Part One

Writer: Daniel Brereton

NOTE: Yes, he was writing this story, too.

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #7 (Dec 1996)

Title: Woman About Town: Part Two

Writer: Daniel Brereton

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #8 (Jan 1997)

Title: Woman About Town: Part Three

Writer: Daniel Brereton

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LADY JUSTICE Vol 2 #9 (Feb 1997)

Title: Woman About Town: Part Four

Writer: Daniel Brereton

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