ORCZY, Baroness.

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Sir Percy Leads the Band. First edition of the tenth and penultimate Scarlet Pimpernel novel, being a direct sequel of the events that took place in the series' debut title The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905).Stan Lee and others have credited Scarlet Pimpernel as the first superhero. "While it's true that Orczy took pre-existing elements - a double life and special powers go back to Greek mythology - she then joined them to a flamboyant secret identity and marked each adventure with a calling card. All that remained, in the late 1930s, was for comic strip artists to get drawing" (Hodgkinson).

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