Dynamite Entertainment's Bat/Fury January Solicitations

Dynamite was so late announcing their December solicitations that it feels I just got around to posting those.  Let's have a look at what we can now expect from them in the new year.

THE BLACK BAT #8
Writer: Brian Buccellato
Art:Ronan Cliquet
The fallout from recent events changes the dynamic between Carol, the Black Bat, and the shadow organization behind his creation. Black Bat wrestles with the choices he has made, and how far he is willing to go to get justice. Are the strings attached to his redemption worth the price?

MISS FURY #10
Writer: Rob Williams
Art: Marcio Abreu
PHILADELPHIA 2 of 2. Miss Fury's search for the missing Captain Chandler continues, and US Naval Intelligence are willing to give her the top secret location of Schauburger's laboratory in Nazi Germany, but first she has to do something for them. A deal with the New York underworld to keep the docks safe from saboteurs and Axis agents has become a deal with the devil, as a new murderous costumed crazy has appeared calling himself The Mob. Miss Fury will have to return to her pulp roots in order to take down a super-villain who is all about respect...

NOIR #3 (OF 5)
Writer: Victor Gischler
Art: Andrea Mutti
The unlikely team of The Black Sparrow and Miss Fury strong arm the Mohawk Akash into revealing a map they hope will lead them to the lost treasure of the Templars. But is the map actually worthless without the rune codes? Their quest takes them deep into the wilderness and to an ancient place that's been locked away for centuries. Danger and betrayal lurk around every corner.

These solicitations were revealed by Newsarama earlier today but they are likely incomplete as they do not include other standards like Vampirella, Red Sonja, etc. It's possible (but doubtful) that either Black Bat or Fury appear in other books in January so we'll keep an ear to the ground.

Sensational Sundays 1941-1944

This came out last week, but I only found out about it today.

Eisner Award-nominee for BEST ARCHIVAL COLLECTION!

Reprinting every Miss Fury Sunday page from the beginning in April 1941 through April 1944 (where IDW's companion volume picks up), we learn the origins of Miss Fury and her skin-tight panther costume - complete with its sharp claws on her hands and her feet!

By day, she was socialite Marla Drake - by night, the costumed adventuress Miss Fury. These early exploits introduce all of the memorable characters who remained in the strip for the rest of the decade: the one-armed General Bruno, the Baroness Erica Von Kampf (with a swastika branded on her forehead), Albino Jo, and the all-American Gary Hale and Detective Carey, who each vies for Marla's affections. The stories range from downright kinky to all-out action against Nazis, spies, cuthroats, and thieves.

Edited by Trina Robbins and designed by Lorraine Turner.

The "companion" volume had a release date of June 2011 and reprints material from 1944 to 1949.  I have no idea why it came out two years earlier when it contains the latter material, but presumably there's a good reason.

I've read reviews that state that the current Dynamite Entertainment Miss Fury series is nothing like the original version.  That may be so, but I can see why writer Rob Williams felt comfortable with including a healthy dose of wackiness.  Albino Jo indeed.