KIMA

Real Name: Kima (full name unrevealed)

Identity/Class: Human (post-World War II era) (Korean)

Occupation: Spy

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: The People's Army of China, an unidentified fellow spy

Enemies: Doug Grant, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile in Korea during the Korean War

First Appearance: Spy Cases I#15 (February, 1953)

Powers/Abilities: Kima was gifted at subterfuge. She carried a pistol and also had access to a rifle. Kima was an excellent hand-to-hand fighter trained in judo.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 104 lbs.)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black

History:
(Spy Cases I#15/2 (fb) - BTS) - Kima and a female ally of hers donned nurses' uniforms of the R.O.K. (Republic of Korea Armed Forces) and assassinated a team of R.O.K. stretcher bearers in the woods, shooting them in the back.

(Spy Cases I#15/2) - Kima and her ally confronted a U.S. Army patrol led by Lt. Doug Grant. They claimed they had been part of a South Korean medical team that included stretcher bearers. As they had been walking through the woods, they were ambushed by Communist soldiers, who shot the stretcher bearers in the back. Kima and her friend claimed they had escaped the ambush because the soldier who tried to capture them was unprepared for them to fight back using judo.

    Kima and her friend showed the bodies of the dead stretcher bearers to Doug Grant and his men and mused that the enemy soldiers must have retreated when they heard Grant and his men coming. Grant noted that the R.O.K. medical officer in his area had been complaining about the lack of help so he suggested bringing them back to his outfit.

    In the days that followed, Kima and her friend used their position within the R.O.K. medical corps to secretly assassinate R.O.K. medics, stretcher bearers and wounded men. Lt. Grant investigated the murders and suggested Kima and her friend go into the field to assist his men with the bodies of the most recently killed men. Once they had left, an R.O.K. officer mentioned that the two women were the only ones who went out and came back. When Grant realized the two women had known about the most recent killings yet supposedly hadn't left the base at all that day, he realized they were the killers.

    Kima and her friend were based on top of a hill and tried to kill Lt. Grant as he approached but he rolled out of sight. Unfortunately, their gunshots had attracted a nearby Communist patrol. Seeing the two women in R.O.K. uniforms, the Communists opened fire on them, killing them both. Lt. Grant killed the Communist patrol with a grenade, mockingly suggesting to the dead women that he had "avenged" them.

Comments: Created by Robert Bernstein and Bill Savage.

    All Asian femme fatales owe a great debt to Milton Caniff and his creation the Dragon Lady from the newspaper comic strip Terry and the Pirates.

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Kima should not be confused with:

• CHU SAN - Clark Mason foe--Spy Fighters I#11
• COMRADE CHINA - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#14
• HAN RIVER HELEN - Iron Mike McGraw foe--Marines in Battle I#1
• KAESONG KATIE - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#10
• KOREA KATIE - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#13
• LEE-SIK - Iron Mike McGraw foe--Marines in Battle I#1
• LING - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#28
• MANCHURIA MARY - Battle Brady foe--Battle Brady I#11
• MUKTONG MOLLIE - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#19
• NITA - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#15
• GENERAL OLGA - Buzz Brand foe--Battle Action I#11
• PANTHER LADY - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#8
• THE PEARL OF PYONGYANG - Battle Brady foe--Battle Action I#8
• PUSAN POLLY - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#24
• RED MARY - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#21
• RED POPPY - Combat Casey foe--Combat Casey I#17
• THE SNAKE LADY OF SINYONG - Combat Casey foe foe--Combat Casey I#18
• SWEET LOTUS - Doug Grant foe--Spy Cases I#14
• THE WASP - Battle Brady foe--Battle I#25
• YALU RIVER ROSIE - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#7
• other "Kima" characters, groups, items, races or events, or any other beautiful Asian Communist women

Kima's unidentified fellow spy

Kima's unidentified fellow spy participated in their ploy to pose as ROK nurses in order to stealthily assassinate ROK soldiers. When Doug Grant determined Kima and her friend were the ones responsible for killing ROK soldiers, they tried to kill him but they were both subsequently killed by an approaching Communist patrol, who were fooled by their ROK uniforms.

--Spy Cases I#15/2

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Spy Cases I#15/2, page 2, panel 6 (Kima, main)
Spy Cases I#15/2, page 2, panel 1 (Kima, face)
Spy Cases I#15/2, page 2, panel 1 (other spy)

Appearances:
Spy Cases I#15/2 (February, 1953) - Robert Bernstein (writer), Bill Savage (artist), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 09/15/2025
Last updated: 09/15/2025

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