Vampirella, Pantha & The Rook Team-Up

It was always a treat when Warren characters appeared in each others series, and didn't happen often enough for me. So here's Vampirella & Pantha teaming up with The Rook to take on a million year old energy sucking monster that's about to destroy the Earth.
To be honest, this story is a little bit of a missed opportunity. As it takes place in Restin Dane's series, it's he and his supporting cast that take centre stage, relegating the girls to basically standing around looking pretty. What a way to treat your guests, at least Spidey was more gracious to his Team-Up partners.
The final anticipated epic battle also doesn't really take place, but you kind of expect that sort of randomness from a Bill Dubay script, don't you?

The Origin Of Vampirella

Proving retcons are nothing new, here's two slightly different versions of the origin of the Bronze Age's premiere sexy succubus, Vampirella. This original joky piece is from Vampi's co-creator, professional fan Forrest J. Ackerman, with art by Tom Sutton, and for a while was the direction the strip was going to go in.

But Jim Warren soon realized I guess, that a joky voluptuous vampiress wouldn't have much of a future, so Budd Lewis and Vampi's all-time best artist Jose Gonzalez gently rejigged her with a slightly more serious ( tho' still fantastically pulpy ) origin. This piece, by the way, is a coloured reprint originally from the 1972 Vampi annual, that appeared in the slightly different UK release of the first issue.

'Course, years later, when Harris comics got the franchise, it was all rejigged again, and Vampi was now the daughter of Lilith apparently, born to fight the evil her Mother had unwittingly created.
Pish & tosh. Vampirella came from Drakulon. End of.

Fleur - From The Spain Of Legend!

Fleur was yet another half-dressed magikal minx from the Bronze Age, appearing in just a few issues of Vampirella before disappearing back to the home for obscure comic characters.
She's an immortal witch, which means her adventures could take place anywhen, and there are later stories where she pops up in the nineteenth century and the modern day ( well, modern '70's ), and I don't think she was really used to her full potential in that sense.
Fleur was a bit like Satana in the way she handled men, but her real draw is obviously the fact that she was drawn by Ramon Torrents, who should've also got a stab at the aforementioned Devil's Daughter. Here's her first appearance.