Tygra (Better Publications)

Tygra, whose real name is Lynn Thomas, is a superhero who fist appeared in 'Startling Comics #45. '

Character Descriptions
Dressed in a tiger skin, the blonde Tygra is a superhumanly powerful woman who rules a tribe, the Fire People, who live in Darkest Africa,  Her real name is Lynn Thomas, and she was the daughter of a doctor who was trying to treat a plague that was killing a local tribe. He sent her back to the States to get some of the newly developed serum Autorene, a drug that could restore vitality to the ailing people. Again meeting the creator of Autorene, Professor Ken Thompson, she reveives a small bottle of it from him and heads back to Africa in her small plane. As she is returning to her father, her plane crashes in a storm. Barely escaping the wreckage, Lynn staggers away from the crashed plane into the jungle and drinks what she assumes is beef broth. Going to sleep on a small hill nearby, she awakens to the sound of people shouting. Racing over to the scene, she sees a group of the Fire People trying to catch a lion, whom they believe will be their new ruler, the Tawny One. After Lynn hurks the lion away with superhuman strength, she realizes that she has in fact drunk the entire bottle of autorene. Facing the natives boldly, she fends them off until one of them realizes that she is in fact the Tawny One. Acclaimed as their queen, and renamed Tygra, Lynn wishes to stand among them as one of them - even though she still misses her true love, Ken Thompson.

Powers and Weapons

Tygra possesses superhuman strength as the result of having drunk the Autorene, and is very agile and sometimes acrobatic. She has a knife that she uses in battle against her opponents, man and animal alike. Her greatest weapon though, is her love for Ken Thompson, who gave up his post at a university to be by her side forever.