Slave Girl Comics

About Slave Girl Comics

Slave Girl Comics was an adventure comic book published by Avon in 1949, running for two issues dated February and April of that year. Its lead feature starred Malu, a captured princess, and her companion Garth of Ormuz. In the opening story, a family heirloom gives a present-day woman, Sandra Worth, a view of events of the past; one critic notes that the story is ostensibly set in 2000 BCE.

Howard Larsen pencilled the cover and all four Malu stories in issue #1. The writer is not known. Those stories are "Malu the Slave Girl," "The Banquet of Thuz," "Malu the Slave Girl and the Bandits of Tal Azmut" and "The Slave Market of Manoch," joined by a two-page text story, "The Curse of Ahmen Ra." Charles R. Byrne is credited as editor.

Reviewing the Yoe Books/IDW collection Jungle Girls, which reprints the first Malu story, critic Doris V. Sutherland suggested it may show "an early glimmer" of the jungle comic being absorbed into sword and sorcery. Malu's adventures were also reprinted by I.W. Publications in Malu in the Land of Adventure (1958) and by Malibu in Slave Girl #1 (1989). One more Malu story appeared in Avon's Strange Worlds #3.

On LiveComics, every issue here plays panel by panel, with each line voiced by a full cast, plus sound effects and a score.

Sources, checked October 2026: Grand Comics Database: Slave Girl Comics (Avon, 1949) · Grand Comics Database: Slave Girl Comics #1 (February 1949) · Women Write About Comics: Jungle Girls review (Doris V. Sutherland, 2019) · Dark Worlds Quarterly: Early Sword & Sorcery Comics: Malu the Slave Girl (G. W. Thomas) · Wikipedia: I. W. Publications · Wikipedia: Avon (publisher)