Supercats In: The Imposter

A two-part adventure now for Spellbound's sci-fi superheroines the Supercats, though like all their stories, you kind of wish there were a few more pages to let it breath a bit.
And you've gotta feel sorry for team leader Helen, the Reed Richards of the group. Electra's sorta Johnny and Fauna's sorta Sue, while Hercula is both The Thing AND looks like Thundra. But poor old Helen gets no super powers at all. That ain't right. When I win the lottery, and pay the Romero brothers to bring the gals back, I'm gonna make her telepathic at the very least.

Supercats Double Bill

Been a while since we checked in on those fabulous feline furies the Supercats, so how about a double bill? Or in the case of the first story, a quadruple bill as the gals find themselves up against that hoariest of comic book cliches, the evil robot duplicates of themselves.
Lucky that Warren / 1984's champion sleazemeister Bill DuBay never got his mitts on this strip, or even he would've run out of different words for pulchritudinous. Not to mention probably renaming the team's spaceship to another feline based word beginning with 'P'...

And here the girls get the cover slot, facing off against The Black Queen, Though not the Black Queen from Barbarella else we'd probably have to call Bill again...

Supercats

Finally located some primo examples of Enrique Romero's beautiful Supercats strip from girls' weekly Spellbound, detailing the adventures of space-travelling super teens Hercula, Fauna, Electra and...er...Helen.
There's not much to say for the stories, they do the job nicely enough, but the stories aren't why I read Supercats, and they're not why you'll read them. It's Enrique Romero we're here for.

Here's the thing though, this work might not even be by Romero. Apparently, Enrique's brother Jorge also did a ton of stuff for the British market under the name of Jorge B. Galvez, and it's next to impossible to find out who did what, particularly on this strip.
I'd say at a push, that the black & white story looks more like Axa, while the colour strip ( from one of the Diana annuals ) has subtle differences to Romero's style, but what do I know?
Originally, as you'll see from the colour pages, the gals were saddled with the distinctively un-groovy title The Fabulous Four. Thank god that didn't stick or they'd be even more obscure than they are now.

Both stories have incredibly stilted dialogue, suggesting they were badly translated from Spanish, but I think it's more likely they were done Marvel style ie. Romero had a basic script to work from that was then clumsily dialogued after. Axa was a bit like that too, so maybe that's the way he liked to work.
I'm surprised, in all these years, no enterprising Spanish publisher has asked Romero to bring the Supercats back, but then I'm surprised there isn't a ' best of ' as well. Back to scrawling round the net then...