GENERAL OLGA
Real Name: Olga (full name unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Human (post-World
War II era) (Chinese)
Occupation: Military leader
Group Membership: The People's Volunteer Army
Affiliations: Chu Hu
Enemies: Battle Brady, Combat Kelly, Korea Katie,
Muktong
Mollie, Cookie Novak, the Panther Lady, Sgt. Steel, Sgt. Socko
Swenski, Yalu River Rosie
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Mobile in Korea during the
Korean War
First Appearance: Battle Action I#11 (April, 1953)
Powers/Abilities: General Olga was an
excellent combatant. Her personal favorite weapon was a corded rawhide
whip. She was also a skilled horse rider and adept at cavalry combat
maneuvers.
Height: Unrevealed
(approximately 5'2")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 104 lbs.)
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black
History:
(Battle Action I#11) - Astride her horse, General Olga charged into
battle against Battle Brady and Socko Swenski, easily snaring Brady's
rifle with her whip. Brady drew two six-guns but Olga confiscated them
just as easily. When she flung her whip at Brady to strike him, he
caught the whip with his bare hands and dragged her off her horse then
whipped her with her own weapon. General Olga's soldiers rescued her
from this embarrassing situation and she ordered them to strip Brady
and Socko of their uniforms. Olga had Chu Hu and another of her men don
the Americans' uniforms in order to recon the US lines and determine
where they would be advancing toward. When they returned with the
intelligence, General Olga rewarded the two men with the honor of
executing Brady and Swenski while she led their forces to meet the US
Army.
General Olga had catapults
constructed at a pass where the Americans were supposed to pass so that
her men could easily wreak destruction on their ranks but her men's
initial configurations were incorrect and resulted in the catapults
striking their own ranks. Infuriated, Olga didn't realize her two
executioners had been killed by Brady and Swenski, who donned Chinese
uniforms then during the night fitted her catapults with dynamite. When
the US forces appeared, Olga ordered the catapults to fire but they
launched dynamite across the valley, decimating her own forces.
(Battle Brady I#14 (fb)) - General Olga survived
the destruction of her forces by using the bodies of her own soldiers
as human shields.
(Battle
Brady I#14) - Riding out, General Olga saw Battle Brady and
Socko
Swenski. She threw a knife at them bearing a note which read "Before
the sun sets on this day... you two will die!" This surprised the duo,
who assumed she had perished in their previous encounter. Brady and
Swenski were preoccupied with trying to locate a hidden convoy of
Communist trucks. They finally discovered the trucks were concealed
behind a mountain but General Olga was among the convoy and she
captured both men.
General Olga boasted to her enemies how
she'd
survived before then forced them to enter a canvas bag. General Olga
hurled the bag into the ocean to be eaten by sharks but Brady got out
of the bag using his knife. Commandeering two of the trucks, they pushed
the entire convoy over the cliff and into the ocean, sending General
Olga and all of her soldiers into the shark-infested waters.
(Battlefront I#14) - Posters signed by General
Olga that offered a $5,000 "dead or alive" bounty on the heads of her
foes Battle Brady and Socko Swenski started appearing. Brady and Socko
faced a variety of soldiers on foot and in tanks, and jeeps and
helicopters
made attempts at killing them but failed. General Olga herself rode up
on horseback after Brady and Socko had destroyed a helicopter. Holding
her pistol on them, she boasted that they were no match for her, just
as the sharks she'd faced had been no match for her. Dismounting her
horse, she lined them up near the edge of a cliff and asked the duo if
they had any last words. Brady responded with a "rebel yell" that
spooked her horse and caused it to kick both men over the cliff and
into a river. After escaping the river, Brady and Socko learned the
posters weren't actually created by General Olga but were fashioned by
their fellow soldiers as a joke. Brady and Socko's comrades didn't even
believe General Olga existed, much less the duo's story of
their recent adventure.
(3-D Action I#1) - On horseback, General Olga and
one of her female subordinates attacked Battle Brady and Socko Swenski
but were overpowered. Brady and Socko took both women as prisoners and
hired a nearby ferry to sail them south but the ferrymen proved to be
undercover Chinese agents who freed General Olga. Olga showed Brady and
Socko the large fleet of Chinese junks they had prepared, all of which
had cannons hidden aboard for a sneak attack. Olga imprisoned Brady and
Swenski below one of the junks but they set a fire aboard the ship that
warned the US fleet and the junks were destroyed while Brady and
Swenski escaped.
(Battlefront I#16/4) - Brady and Swenski ambushed
General Olga as she and a subordinate were riding through a canyon.
However, a patrol of Chinese soldiers descended on the canyon while
Brady and Swenski were trying to tie up their prisoners. The enemy
soldiers took Brady and Swenski prisoner and General Olga had them tied
to horses then led them to a valley, where her forces had been
gathering
cattle they were rustling from local farms. Knowing Brady's background
as a cowboy, Olga wanted Brady to drive the cattle for them. Brady
refused so Olga strung up he and Swenski with nooses and prepared to
hang them. Brady then agreed to work for Olga, seemingly afraid of
being lynched. Brady began driving the cattle across country as Olga
directed him but when they paused for a rest, Brady emptied some of the
gunpowder from one of his bullets into a cup of tea then poured the
tea on the campfire. The resulting explosion spooked the cattle and
caused a stampede during which all of General Olga's allies were
trampled
to death.
(Combat Kelly I#24/2) - General Olga pursued
Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak, claiming she would have "revenge" upon
them. She intended to tie both men to her horse and drag them behind
her until they were dead but she discovered Kelly and Cookie's other
adversaries Muktong Mollie, Korea Katie, Yalu River Rosie and the
Panther Lady had also claimed the privilege of killing the two
soldiers. The women dragged General Olga from her horse then descended
into a frenzy of hair-pulling and struggling against each other. Kelly
and Cookie simply sat back and watched them fight.
Comments: Created by Hank Chapman and Syd Shores.
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.
Olga's only time fighting Combat Kelly
was the story
in Combat Kelly I#24/2, which was supposed to be a collection of
Kelly's various female adversaries. It seems as though someone forgot
which series she was from! She was also mistakenly given blonde hair
and pink skin.
This profile was
completed 07/22/2025 but its
publication was delayed, as it was intended for the Appendix's 25th
anniversary celebratory event.
Profile by Prime
Eternal.
CLARIFICATIONS:
General Olga should not be confused with:
- 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
- OLGA - non-Asian Communist spy, Buzz Brand
foe--Young Men I#22
- 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 "General" or "Olga" characters, groups, items,
races or events, or any other beautiful Asian Communist women
Chu Hu
Chu Hu was a Chinese soldier who served under General
Olga's command. After helping capture Battle Brady and Socko Swenski,
Chu Hu and another soldier wore the two men's uniforms to perform a
recon of US activities. After reporting their intelligence to General
Olga, she granted them the honor of executing Brady and Socko but while
they dragged the prisoners to the execution grounds, Brady pretended to
grovel before them and slipped bullets into their gun barrels. Chu Hu
made a friendly wager with his comrade as to which of them could
execute a prisoner with a single shot between the eyes but when they
squeezed their triggers, the gun barrels exploded in their faces,
killing them both.
--Battle Action I#11
images: (without ads)
Battle Action I#11, page 1, panel 1 (Olga, main)
Battle Action I#11, page 3, panel 1 (Olga, face)
Battle Action I#11, page 4, panel 5 (Chu Hu)
Appearances:
Battle Action I#11 (April, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Syd Shores
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battle Brady I#14 (June, 1953) - Hank Chapman (writer), Norman Steinberg
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Battlefront I#14 (November, 1953) - unidentified writer, Syd Shores
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
3-D Action I#1 (January, 1954) - unidentified writer, Syd Shores
(penciler), Norman Steinberg (inker), Stan Lee (editor)
Battlefront I#16/4 (February, 1954) - unidentified writer, Syd Shores
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
Combat Kelly I#24/2 (September, 1954) - unidentified writer, Dave Berg
(artist), Stan Lee (editor)
First posted: 09/20/2026
Last updated:
07/22/2025
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