The Painted Lady - Character Design

THE PAINTED LADY:

In preparing the write-ups for the "Standard Comics Encyclopedia" I needed some filler material, so I came up with this super-villain called "The Painted Lady" (which was an old slang term for prostitute). Blame Kevin Moorhead for the name - a dirty old man apparently. It means butterfly, or old timey slang for prostitute. Imagine some writer/artist sneaking that past the CCA censors back in the day.

So, I needed a design and contacted the Brothers Fraim.

Here's the text I'd come up with, so they could develop something for her:

While attending an art gallery opening, a super-villain calling herself the “Painted Lady” appeared from out of a painting. She proceeded to terrorize the gallery patrons by bringing creatures from the paintings themselves to life. After switching to her Black Orchid costume, Diana Dawn was able to drive the Painted Lady back into the painting from which she came (The Black Orchid #19).

For some reason, Emulex earned the interest of super-villain the Painted Lady (see Painted Lady). She delighted in placing him in Renaissance paintings of pastoral settings as well as cubist nightmare landscapes. Eventually though, she tired of him and set him free (Super-Villain Showcase #45).

That's pretty much it.

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