Who Is Princess Pantha? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Princess Pantha is a In the Public Domain comic book character, the alter ego of Pantha, with over 48 comic issue appearances. Princess Pantha was a Caucasian lovely lady who became an African heroine in the same vein as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Who is Princess Pantha?

Origin Princess Pantha was an expert animal trainer for the National Circus in the United States when she heard of a monster gorilla terrorizing the Tahoua section of French West Africa. She took a safari to try and find and capture this creature, but her safari was attacked by the Kodus tribe. These seven-foot natives killed her guide and bearers, but the expedition had been setting up a loudspeaker machine to play gorilla calls into the jungle to try to lure the monster gorilla. Pantha was out of ammo and nearly captured by the Kodus warriors when she was able to activate the speakers and the loud gorilla cries scared off the Kodus, who thought M'Gana, the monster, was approaching. They left her alive, but with all her companions dead and her supplies trashed. She hid in the jungle, learning to live off the land and befriending the creatures there. Two months later the circus owner, Gilt-Edge Gates, was worried he had not heard from her, so he hired Dane Hunter, famous explorer and adventurer, to go to Africa and try to find what happened to Princess Pantha. When Hunter tracked down the spot that Pantha's party had been wiped out, he thought one of the skeletons was hers, and bel.

Key facts

Princess Pantha is of human origin and first appeared in "A Breath of Air; Doctor's Patient; Black Gold Trail". The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 48 recorded issue appearances, Princess Pantha ranks among the most featured characters in comics.