Lady Luck!

Lady Luck was created by Will Eisner, but Eisner never worked on the short four-page series which helped to fill out what is today known as The Sprit Section which debuted in the summer of 1940. Lady Luck was instead drawn in her earliest adventures by Chuck Mazoujian and later by Nick Cardy (under his real name Nicholas Viscardi). Actually, neither artist claimed credit as the name give was always "Ford Davis". It's generally agreed that Eisner never wrote the strip, but some still credit him. One writer given credit is Dick French. In the spring of 1941 Klaus Nordling took over the writing and drawing of the series and breathed some fresh "Good Girl" style life into it until 1946 when the series was dropped. That lasted only a few months, but when Lady Luck was revived a new artist named Fred Schwab took over and brought a style even more wild and raucous. 

I've come across very few Lady Luck collections. Two were published by Ken Pierce way back in 1980. The first gives the reader ten Nordling stories and six Schwab yarns. There is very little in the way of any history. The second gives the reader an essay by Cat Yronwode laying down some timeframes and some precious details. The reader also gets a glimpse at two of the early Mazoujian stories as well as two of the somewhat lighter Viscardi items. 

Lady Luck was reprinted also in the pages of Smash Comics. She took over that title in its last four issues. Lady Luck is actually heiress Brenda Banks who without the assist of superpowers fights crime, sometimes with a small gun and more normally with Jui-jitsu. She's assisted at various times by a powerful man named Peecolo who doubles as her bodyguard. (He talks like Jar-Jar Binks I think.) Later a doofus named Count de Change shows up for comedy relief. Lady Luck stories are spritely adventures quickly told. Sometimes that just what's needed. 

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