Follow

    Pat Parker, War Nurse

    Character » Pat Parker, War Nurse appears in 38 issues.

    A nurse in war-torn England, Pat isn't satisfied just tending to the sick and goes to war against the Nazis. Artistically, she bears a striking resemblance to Wonder Woman.

    Short summary describing this character.

    Pat Parker, War Nurse last edited by aphillips17 on 07/08/22 01:55PM View full history

    Origin

    Captain Pat Parker really is a British nurse, but she becomes a superheroine by taking off her white uniform to reveal an outfit consisting of a crop top and blue shorts with a cross on her belt, and by donning a mask also decorated with a red cross. Suddenly, she is known as "War Nurse"!

    Creation

    Fighting an Elephant
    Fighting an Elephant

    Not every patriotic superheroine was American. Even before Pearl Harbor, comic book writers demonstrated America's partiality to our besieged and blitzkrieged neighbor across the sea by creating several British superheroines. Pat Parker, War Nurse, made her first appearance in Speed Comics #13.

    Pat Parker and her Girl Commandos defied comic book tradition not only by including an overweight girl, Ellen, as an action heroine who was just as tough as her "sisters", but by the realistic, non-racist depiction of Mei-Ling, the Chinese member of the group. Pat Parker and her multinational women fought for the freedom of enslaved nations right through to the end of the war, finally laying down their guns and uniforms when Speed Comics ended its long run in 1947.

    Major Story Arcs

    Girl Commandos
    Girl Commandos

    In future adventures, she is assisted by Mei-Ling, Tanya, Ellen and Penny, better known as the Girl Commandos. The strip featured a sort of female United Nations, all from battled countries, who fought the Axis in Nazi-occupied lands like Norway and Greece. Ellen, Pat and Penny are British, Tanya is Russian and Mei-Ling is Chinese.

    Powers & Abilities

    War Nurse has no powers beyond her desire to see the Axis crushed.

    sizepositionchange
    sizepositionchange
    positionchange
    positionchange
    positionchange
    bordersheaderpositiontable
    positionchange

    This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.