Jack Kirby, the pen name of Jacob Kurtzenberg ... if only on paper,” Renee told Freund of illustrating this fierce female spy, who was fighting the artist’s own persecutors on the page.

As one Reddit user reminder readers, Jack Kirby once pitched Big Barda and Her Female Furies! to DC, and even delivered a sketch of the cover for the first issue. Kirby, creator of DC's New Gods ...