Steve Skeates (1943–2023)

Pantha (a were-panther, natch) originally was in a four-part back up story in Vampirella Magazine, and slowly becoming a supporting character to the title character. Pantha has never been as successful as Vampirella, despite being drawn just as lushly (and with more excuses to wander around naked or nearly so). Even a love triangle involving Pantha snagging Vampi's boyfriend Adam van Helsing failed to garner much interest from readers. Still, the art is still good, and for thosew old enough show more to remember this is a nice collection. show less

This was awful.

While there's definitely a story here, it only occurs because "Just Plain Dwayne" (surely one of the most boring, weakly written main characters I've ever come across) has absolutely no agency whatsoever through the bulk of this story, literally falling into situation after situation...which makes his one act of selflessness impossible to believe.

The art wasn't horrible, but it wasn't exciting, either.

Just a waste of paper.

Actually 2.5 stars due to the uneven nature of the collected stories and lackluster characterization of most to all figures in the stories. Maybe I expected more emotional punch or better writing, but I'd not recommend this book to any but established Aquaman fans for reading.