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I've always liked Zatanna as a character, and her costume certainly lends itself to some nice good-girl art.

A trade was published a few years ago, ZATANNA'S SEARCH, that collected her earliest appearances across the Schwartz-edited titles (HAWKMAN 4, JLA 51, DETECTIVE 336 and 355, ATOM 19, and GREEN LANTERN 42, all from 1965-1967), all collected behind a nice Bolland cover.


Although there's plenty of other nice covers and stories by Adams, Morrow, Buckler, Perez and many others.

A nice collection of Zatanna covers, pin-up pages, Smallville tv show video stills, and hot looking girls at conventions doing costume role-playing of the Zatanna character.





Yowza!

What a babe!

A few JLA covers, from when the character wore some interesting if short-lived new costumes, in the late 70's and early 80's:


This Zatanna costume the most short-lived, and quickly discarded:

issue 170 (Dillin/Giordano)

issue 180 (Starlin)



And this Zatanna outfit more decorative and interesting, that lasted through most of the 1980's:

issue 191 (Buckler)

issue 202 (Perez)

issue 217 (Perez)

And a favorite of mine, NEW TEEN TITANS 4 (Perez)

The latter outfit recreated well here:



More of the same outfit here.
http://justiceleaguedetroit.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-zatanna-cosplay-blue-white-by-dj.html

She credits it in her blog as having been created by George Perez.

Two different girls, I don't know which you prefer, but I'll just agree and say Yes and Yes!

Both are very pretty, I like the flirtatious smile on the busty one standing next to the Spirit-guy.

The great Flirtatio was my favorite magician.

Flirtatio the Magnificent!



Oopsie. Typo corrected.

Valerie Perez, the girl on the left in the bottom photo, in another photo here:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm445760768/nm2731341?ref_=nm_phs_md_6


Woo!

I'm drooling so much I almost wrote "wool !" That photo of her in a gold dress is to die for!

Heh. I thought that name was familiar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Perez

I wonder if she's a FLASH fan, or if that just coincidentally happens to be her real name.

I hope she likes to FLASH people!

At that speed you wouldn't see anything.

Another foxy girl in a Zatanna costume.

God bless!


Full gallery at:
https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo...e-her-NYC-party

The girl in the 80s Zatanna costume has nailed it.

Speaking of Zatanna's 80's costume...




This, if I recall, was done by George Perez, back when he was drawing the JLA series, circa 1980-1982. It was part of a mini-portfolio of promotional cards, all by Perez, where each card illustrated one of the JLA members.

Especially nice, since as said above, Perez was the one who designed Zatanna's new costume in the first place.

Oh heck yeah!

And more of Ms. Perez:

What a bunch of geeks! A beautiful girl like this walks by, and not one of them even notices her!

One of the best Zatanna covers, for a one-shot. Love the Bolland cover, less impressed with the interior story and art by others.

But a great standard to aspire toward, for women cosplayers.

Another Bolland cover, of the 2004 collection reprinting Zatanna's earliest appearances from 1964-1967, the stories that defined the character.
Another cover that establishes to gold standard for portraying the character.

The introduction for the book was written by Steven Utley, who some of you might remember used to post a lot on the DC message boards from 2000-2003, before most of us came here to RKMB.
I was sad to read that Mr Utley died a few years ago, from a brain anyeurism or something similar. I only learned this by googling his name. I have a few comics Utley scripted, anthology stories for DC such as MYSTERY IN SPACE, during its 1980-1981 revival. As I recall, he was also a college professor.

Another of my favorites, this SECRET ORIGINS 27 story of both Zatara and Zatanna, both cover and interior art by Tom Artis. Some of you may recall a topic I created for Tom Artis. Of about 60 covers and interior stories, this is among his best rendered stories.

In three chapters, part 1 (15p), part 2 (10p), and part 3 (13p), parts 1 and 3 by Artis, part 2 art by Grant Meihm.

Not a huge fan of the boots. Otherwise a great depiction.

I read those stories when DC reprinted them, in serialized form over several months, in various DC 100 page Giants of the time. It was my first actual exposure to the idea that, outside of JLA and the team up books, it really was a shared universe. Those stories were a lot of fun.

Yeah, I'm with you there.
I'd rather see her in heels than boots, that show off her legs in the fishnet stockings, more feminine.





The best portrayal I've seen of Zatanna outside the Silver Age stories is in IMPULSE 17, cover and interior story both by Ramos/Faucher.
Like the rest of the series that preceded this story, it has a playfulness and whimsey that blends perfectly with the character. As well as some very nice good girl art.

I always liked that on the DC side (as opposed to Marvel), there was continuity, but it was more loose. Where characters like Deadman or Spectre or Kirby's THE DEMON, or Cain in HOUSE OF MYSTERY largely existed in their own world, but it could be expanded in certain stories to allow characters to have shared adventures.

And there were largely separate universes within the larger DC universe, such as Earth 1 (Silver Age JLA), Earth 2 (Golden Age JSA), Earth X (Freedom Fighters/Quality comics heroes), Earth S (the Shazam characters), and so forth.
For me, CRISIS in 1985-1986 killed what I loved about the separate worlds within the larger DC Universe, and brought a smotheringly retentive level of Marvel-style continuity I found offputting and made me less interested in DC titles, from 1986-forward.


You and I read the Zatanna stories at the same time in those 100-page issues.
In order, the reprints are:

1. HAWKMAN 4, Anderson p and i, 13p, Oct 1964 (r in SUPERGIRL 5, Jun 1973, 8 pages of the original 13p story, the only r with pages deleted, and the only Zatanna r not in a 100 page issue)

2. DETECTIVE COMICS 336, Moldoff/Geilla art, 15p, Feb 1965 (r in DETECTIVE 439, Mar 1974)

3. ATOM 19, Gil Kane/Sid Greene art, 25p, Aug 1965 (r in DETECTIVE 438, Jan 1974)

4. GREEN LANTERN 42, Gil Kane/Sid Greene art, 23p, Jan 1966 (r in SUPERMAN 272, Feb 1974)

5. DETECTIVE 355, Infantino p and i, 10p, Sept 1966 (r in DETECTIVE 439, Mar 1974)

6. JLA 51, Sekowsky/Sachs art, 23p, Feb 1967 (r in JLA 110, Apr 1974)


Only the SUPERGIRL reprint did I not read when it first came out. What kids in 1964-1967 had to wait years to read, we got to read in about 4 months across the various 100-page reprint issues, in Jan-Apr 1974.

All 6 reprinted in the ZATANNA'S SEARCH trade collection, 30 years later, with better offset printing.

Going all out with the special effects.

http://geekxgirls.com/images/zatanna9/zatanna_cosplay_01.jpg

Beyond that, a nice job of cosplaying in-character by all those pictured.

It never hurts at all when a Zatanna cosplay girl is bringin' the foxy.

https://jasonharrispromotions.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/img_4451.jpg


The Zatanna girl is perfect.

The girl to her left almost ruins the picture, with a truly awful costume, that I had to read the description to even
know is a Poison Ivy costume. Before I read that, I thought she was just dressed as a Halloween pumpkin.

I don't know if this was a cosplayer-imagined and designed costume, or if it was one used in an actual Zatanna story. But nice, regardless.

My only complaint is it's more akin to Alice In Wonderland than Zatanna as I know the character. While it appears with Zatanna cosplay photos, I think it's a Zenescope stripper-version of Alice in Wonderland, as seen in this GRIMM FAIRY TALES SWIMSUIT SPECIAL cover.

Again, credited as a Zatanna costume, but not one I recognize.
May have been used in a Zatanna story, or may be an original cosplayer's design.

I wonder if any cosplay originals have ever inspired DC or Marvel to do stories using their costume designs.

Zatanna cover-featured on Everett Hartsoe's BADGIRL SKETCHBOOK 4.

Love the bunny's facial expression!