"Solara" Creator Charles Lee Jackson II Talks About the Young Wendy Pini, Her Early Comic Series “The Infinauts,” How She Helped Design the Costume of His Most Famous Heroine



Working with Mac McCaughan and Wendy Pini (then Wendy Fletcher), I had a character and costume design, and now I produced a script and shipped it off to Wendy! It was the first time she ever drew a story from someone else's writing, though she had produced several installments of her own strip, "The Rebels"! As such this story became sort of a landmark for her (as well as being one of the first scripts that I wrote and didn't draw myself)! She stuck to the spirit if not the letter of mv script, and produced a tale that showed her collaboration in both the art and the dialogue!

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CLICK TO SEE WENDY PINI's INITIAL DESIGN FOR SOLARA AND CHARLES LEE JACKSON II's FINAL DESIGN.

Who is Solara? Listen to Charles Lee Jackson II on the Superheroine with the Split Personality

SOLARA - HER DAY JOB DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HER NIGHT JOB IS DOING!

Where does Solara come from? Not even her own civilian identity, Helia Laurel, knows her secret. But somehow, in times of danger, the blue-and-gold uniform flashes through the sky. Not a rocket – not a meteorite – but an adventuress whose battle against crime and evil makes her Target: Solara.

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A very young Wendy Pini helped design her costume. See her design and the final.

SEE HOW WENDY PINI DREW SOLARA & HOW CHARLES LEE JACKSON II DRAWS HER

TWO VIEWS OF CHARLES LEE JACKSON II's SUPERHEROINE- SOLARA


Working with Mac McCaughan and Wendy Pini (then Wendy Fletcher), I had a character and costume design, and now I produced a script and shipped it off to Wendy! It was the first time she ever drew a story from someone else's writing, though she had produced several installments of her own strip, "The Rebels"! As such this story became sort of a landmark for her (as well as being one of the first scripts that I wrote and didn't draw myself)! She stuck to the spirit if not the letter of mv script, and produced a tale that showed her collaboration in both the art and the dialogue!

 

Windy Pini's Initial Design.

Charles Lee Jackson II's Final Evolution.

Cover of first Solara solo adventure

Charles Lee Jackson II and Frankie Hill

Solara, the blonde bombshell of the Swashbucklers flies again, in four exciting adventures from “The Emperor’s Secret Files”! From nuclear threat and earthquake to disaster from the heavens, Solara is on the job, risking her own life to save innocents. But from where does Solara come? Not even her own civilian identity, Helia Laurel, knows her secret. But somehow, in times of danger, the blue-and-gold uniform flashes through the sky. Not a rocket – not a meteorite – but an adventuress whose battle against crime and evil makes her Target: Solara.

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Solara is the only superheroine who doesn't know she is one. How is that possible? Click here to hear to Charles Lee Jackson explain.

Charles Lee Jackson talks about his superheroine Solara's first solo novel and the books that led up to it.

WendyPini helped design her. Now find out all about her.

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Blonde Bombshells Newest in The Emperor's Secret Files to be Released in Paperback - Only $8.09 at Amazon

"Blonde Bombshells *IS* fun. It reminds me a lot of early pulp fiction."
        -J. D. Crayne, author of The Invisible Encounter and Saturn Stolen!

When the going gets tough - the good guys call in two tough superheroines!

In this installment of underground comic book and pulp magazine sensation Charles Lee Jackson II's adventures of "The Emperor," two women join The Emperor's battle for justice and peace. Newly released from the Emperor's Secret Files, this book tells the stories of the... Blonde Bombshells!

One woman has amazing powers beyond ordinary men, the other is a school girl just learning that her father was a costumed crime-fighter of the past. Former astronaut Helia Laurel has a secret identity so secret she herself doesn't know that she is also the fantastic Solara, while young Alison Carlsonn tries to earn the right to become a new hero, Shooting Star.

When young Alison Carlsonn discovers that her father had been a costumed crime-fighter of a generation ago, she thinks she’s found herself a career. But when she learns her father is being held hostage by a master criminal, she must become a “Phoenix from Santa Fe”. Helia Laurel wakes to find herself confined in a hospital bed, uncertain of her own identity, and terrorized by the very people who should be helping her, one of whom is about to bring about “The Return of Solara”. Released from hospital, Helia Laurel find she has much of her life to recover, but that it must wait, because Continent-Eight, the Executive of Crime, is plotting evil once again, the blonde bombshell must hurtle into action, as “Solara Strikes Back”. Hoping to win approval of her plan to become a modern-day Swashbuckler, Alison Carlsonn visits The Emperor but finds herself in a life-and-death situation in a bank hold-up, as “Allie Goes to Hollywood”.

Welcome to the Emperorverse, a creation of comic book and pulp magazine creator Charles Lee Jackson II. His Emperorverse is a world born of international spies, space aliens, mad scientists, colorful villains, costumed heroes, secret agents, spacemen, and even the cowboys of yesteryear, all engaged in the wildest and woolliest adventures you’ve ever read. It's an amazing and unequaled creative tapestry, woven into a complex, interrelated web that snares the imagination.

Already available as an ebook, Blonde Bombshells is now available in paperback from Amazon, and to celebrate we are lowering its already low price of $9.99 by almost two dollars - to $8.09.

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And to celebrate the opening of this blog, we are dropping the price of the Kindle edition of the first Emperor novel, The Emperor's Gambit at Amazon to $2.99.

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