Sheena (1984) Breaks Convention and Sets a Strong Tone Early on for Female-Led Superhero Movies Sheena attempted to bring the iconic jungle queen to the big screen with model-turned-actress Tanya ...

The town is in Nebraska. “Sheena,” the unusual action series about a female superhero in an era when women were expected to raise children and bake cookies, ran 26 episodes in 1956.

Dynamite’s latest Tarzan book will team him up with the undisputed Queen of the Jungle: Sheena! Sheena, created by Will Eisner and Jerry Eiger, made her debut in 1937 before shortly getting her ...

In 1938, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle became the first comic book to star a female hero. Preceding Wonder Woman by three years, the comic followed Sheena as she went on adventures in the “exotic ...