1975) and in a Ka-Zar story in the black-and-white, mature-audience comics magazine Savage Tales #8 (Jan. 1974) then in a storyline running through the superhero comics Daredevil #109-111 (May–July 1974) and Marvel Two-in-One #3 (May 1974), which supplied additional details about Shanna's past and family, and notes McShane's murder by the supervillainess Nekra in the interim in Daredevil #117 (Jan. The character went on to a series of guest appearances, first in the jungle lord comic Ka-Zar #1 (Jan. 1973), with Jim Steranko drawing the covers of #1-2, John Buscema and Joe Sinnott of issue #3, and John Romita Sr. This initial series ran five issues (Dec. Gerber himself, before he died a few years ago, denied that he had any part in Shanna's origin. He provided additional dialogue for the first two and then took over when I left. Steve Gerber was not one of the creators. Steve Gerber did not collaborate with me on the scripts or the origin story, but he added some additional dialogue since Stan and Roy thought the stories were a bit light on the talking. The writer Steve Gerber, in his first assignment for Marvel Comics, supplied additional dialogue for that first issue, as well as the next. With veteran penciler George Tuska, she created the lead character and her two leopard companions, as well as game warden and potential romantic interest Patrick McShane, loosely based on after actor Patrick McGoohan's game-warden character in the film Nor the Moon by Night. Seuling in 2010 recalled: 'My instructions were to make someone who would fit in with the times and also was prone to a little more violence than Sheena or the other jungle queens of the past'.

I put Ross Andru on as the Shanna artist, with Vinnie Colletta inking to make Ross' Shanna look attractive. I approached her to do the Shanna book because I knew she liked jungle comics and adventure comics. I thought of my friend Carole Seuling, who had done a bit of writing for her ex-husband Phil in conjunction with his comic cons.

We were always looking for ways to expand our franchise. He wanted to do some books that would have special appeal to girls. had the idea, and I think the names, for all three.

Marvel writer-editor Roy Thomas recalled in 2007 that editor-in-chief Stan Lee:

Shanna the She-Devil was introduced in one of a trio of Marvel Comics aimed at a female audience, alongside Night Nurse and Claws of the Cat.

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