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<\/a><\/div>\nGale Allen was a long-running feature of Planet Comics<\/i>, which meant that she was a creation of many absent-minded hands. <\/i>She is always an officer in a gendered space organization, but whether that is the Women’s Space Battalion, the Girl’s Patrol, the Girl’s Squadron and so forth varies from issue to issue. The story is set in the far-off year of 1990 but drifts farther into the future over time. She turns blonde eventually. You get the picture. <\/p>\n
Early Gale Allen stories feature spaceman Jack North as a real pill of a sidekick who spends much of his on-panel time carping on about how women don’t belong in the space military. They also<\/i> feature Prince Blaga Daru, a space pirate-turned-world conqueror who has the hots for Gale, possibly because she is semi-secretly a Venusian princess but possibly just because he likes a strong woman.<\/p>\n In his first appearance, Daru has already conquered Europe and set his eyes on invading North America, with Step I of his plan involving taking control of the the Sub-Oceanic Transit Tube, aka the Trans-Atlantic Subway. Gale Allen and her Falcon Squadron set out to stop him, and shockingly don’t succeed! That is, they do succeed in driving off the initial attack and then get captured by the Prince’s special Gale Allen task force, for you see he loves<\/i> her and wants to marry<\/i> her. She of course tells him to go screw and gets away with the help of Jim North.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n