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Femforce

FEMFORCE

First Appearance
Femzine #1 (1981) [as Femme Force One]. Femforce #1 (January, 1985) [as Femforce]
Creator
Bill Black
HQ
Orlando, Florida
Members
Ms. Victory, Garganta, Kitten, Nightviel, Colt, Buckaroo Betty
Rallying Cry
None
Vehicles/Tools
None
Alias
Federal Emergency Missions Force

Femforce is a superhero team from the comic book series of the same name that was published in the 80's and 90's.

Origin

Initially, formed during World War II to help fight against the Nazis, the all-female superhero team Femforce stayed together and lasted for nearly 80 years with constantly changing members.

History

The Original Team

The original Femforce team (which included She Cat, the Blue Bulleteer, Rio Rita and Miss Victory) was formed in World War II by a group of mystery women and superheroines with the purpose of helping the allies. It began when a Washington DC secretary named Joan Wayne was asked to be the assistant of Dr. Mark Benton who was doing research for a project called the Colorado Project. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sanctioned the project in the hopes of finding ways to increase human abilities and create a new, powerful soldier for the army.  When the attacks on Pearl Harbor occured, the demand for results from the research dramatically increased.

Soon, Dr. Benton completed V-45, a chemical compound designed to turn a subject into a "fighting machine" with accelerated cellular regeneration.  When the president asked Dr. Benton to test the compound on human test subjects, but Benton refused and objected on ethical grounds.  Joan Wayne was then put in charge of the project and was given her own assistant, Octavia Howard.  Joan worked hard to finish the compound but each result came with adverse side effects.

Eventually she was able to create V-47, which she tested on herself with positive results.

Following the end of World War II, Rita left the team while the remaining members operated as a police agency for the US government.  

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