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.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.
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.
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