THE SNAKE LADY OF SINYONG

Real Name: Unrevealed

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

Occupation: Spy

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Mokuei

Enemies: "Combat" Casey, Percival P. Pennington

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile in North Korea

First Appearance: Combat Casey I#18 (October, 1954)

Powers/Abilities: The Snake Lady of Sinyong kept a number of pet pythons, cobras and other snakes which would respond to her vocal commands.

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

History:
(Combat Casey I#18/2) - In September 1952, the Snake Lady of Sinyong was responsible for sneaking messages from North Korea to guerrilla fighters in South Korea, placing fake skins on her trained snakes and sending the snakes through enemy lines.

    When the U.S. soldiers "Combat" Casey and Percival "Penny" Pennington came to investigate how the messages were being smuggled through their lines, the Snake Lady confronted them and ordered her snakes to attack them. Soon, two pythons enwrapped the soldiers, confining them. The Snake Lady ordered the two men to choose one of them to deliver a message to South Korea for her while the other remained her prisoner. Casey and "Penny" refused to consider this bargain but the Snake Lady insisted that, after a night of being guarded by her snakes, they would think differently. She left them under the watch of her snakes, whom she ordered to bite the soldiers should they try to escape.

    However, "Penny" used whistling to hypnotize the snakes so they could safely walk past them. While trying to escape, they discovered one of the false skins on the Snake Lady's snakes, revealing to them how she was smuggling messages. However, the Snake Lady and a Communist soldier arrived to recapture the two men. The Snake Lady and the soldier put Casey and "Penny" into a jeep and drove to her snake pit.

    Now that Casey and "Penny" knew how she was smuggling information south, the Snake Lady resolved to kill both men by throwing them into the snake pit. However, the emergency brake in her jeep gave out and the jeep started rolling down the hill towards the snake pit. Seeing the jeep coming, Casey pretended to be frightened of death to keep the Snake Lady's attention focused on him until the jeep struck her and the soldier from behind, knocking them both into the snake pit. Before she could give the snakes a verbal command, the Snake Lady and the soldier were both bitten and died horrible deaths in the snake pit. Casey and "Penny" resolved to head south and tie up the loose ends from the information she had already smuggled out.

(Combat Casey I#19) - After leaving the Snake Lady's dead body, Casey and "Penny" noticed her trained snakes were headed south and realized they could follow the snakes to learn where the information was being fed. They wound up besting the Snake Lady's ally Mokuei.

Comments: Created by an unidentified writer and Robert Q. Sale.

    Combat Casey I#19 opened with a recap of the previous issue in which the Snake Lady's death was dramatized a second time.

    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.

    Pretty clever plan, smuggling your messages via snakes, which are known for their fast ground speed. "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there in three or four months."

    Moral: When parking your jeep near a snake pit, choose the level ground, not the slope.

    If she has a cousin, her alias should be "the Snake Lady of Sin-Cong."

Profile by Prime Eternal.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Snake Lady of Sinyong should not be confused with:

• BLOODY MARY - Combat Kelly foe--Combat Kelly I#21
• CHU SAN - Spy Fighters 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
• KIMA - Doug Grant foe--Spy Cases I#15
• 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
• 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 "Snake," "Lady" or "Sinyong" characters, groups, items, races or events, or any other beautiful Asian Communist women

Mokuei

Mokuei was a Chinese officer operating as a guerrilla in South Korea using intelligence sent to him by the Snake Lady of Sinyong. Mokuei planned to destroy a bridge to Seoul and when "Combat" Casey and "Penny" Pennington discovered his base from following the Snake Lady's snakes, he resolved to force them at gunpoint to set off the explosives to destroy the bridge. Mokuei ordered Casey to drive a truck full of lit explosives to the bridge but instead he drove it into a cave where Mokuei's men were stationed, blocking their exit. Mokuei tried to snuff out the fuse but, distracted by Casey and "Penny," the explosives went off, killing him and all of his men.

--Combat Casey I#19

images: (without ads)
Combat Casey I#18/2, page 3, panel 1 (Snake Lady, main)
Combat Casey I#18/2, page 3, panel 2 (Snake Lady, face)
Combat Casey I#19, page 4, panel 7 (Mokuei)

Appearances:
Combat Casey I#18/2 (October, 1954) - unidentified writer, Robert Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Casey I#19 (December, 1954) - unidentified writer, Robert Q. Sale (artist), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 08/19/2025
Last updated: 08/19/2025

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

Non-Marvel Copyright info
All other characters mentioned or pictured are ™ and © 1941-2099 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. If you like this stuff, you should check out the real thing!
Please visit The Marvel Official Site at: http://www.marvel.com

Special Thanks to http://www.g-mart.com/ for hosting the Appendix, Master List, etc.!

Back to Characters