Deluxe Showcase Edition (January 1997)

Regular cover - Mark Texeira $1.50

Artist - Mark Texeira / Writer - Mark Millar

Contents
Five pages of wonderful full colour Texeira art from the impending Vampirella Vs Pantha series, backed up with a two page interview with Mark Texeira and a page devoted to mini interviews with the writers, James Robinson and Mark Millar.

You certainly can't complain at the cost of this item as you get ten pages of sheer temptation and some interesting interviews.

NOTE: This is a double Showcase edition/ Flip Book. The other "half" of the book is the Vampirella: Blood Lust Deluxe Showcase Edition.

Issue #1 (March 1997)

Vampirella Cover - Mark Texeira $3.50
Signed Vampirella Cover - Mark Texeira (250 copies) $19.95
Pantha Cover - Mark Texeira $3.50
Signed Pantha Cover - Mark Texeira (250 copies) $19.95
Limited Edition Pantha cover - Mark Texeira (3,000 copies) $9.95

Artist - Mark Texiera / Writer - Mark Millar

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Scientists are being discovered, ripped to shreds and with their trousers round their ankles. Vampirella suspects Pantha and tracks her down to the Zoo. It turns out that Pantha was a captive of the Danse Macabre and abused by the scientists there before she escaped, and is now getting her revenge.

Vampirella and Pantha fight, and Vampirella convinces her to spare the last scientist.

However when Pantha and Vampirella leave, the scientist realises that he is still locked in a cage with real panthers ...

I'm sure there must be some kind of love affair between Mark Texeira and Pantha. That is the only thing that would explain the passion and heart that goes into every page of the story.

Stunning art - take it as read! Adult themes and story from Mark Millar make this a comic book for those of a stout constitution.

Vampirella mentions that she and Pantha have met before in Gotham City - a reference to the Vampirella/ Catwoman cross over - yet she and Pantha were best buddies for many years in the Warren era. Perhaps their friendship was another false memory imparted by the Cult of Chaos ...

TRIVIA: It is mentioned that Pantha is not a woman who turns into a cat, rather she is an immortal cat that turns into a woman.