Ma Hunkel was formidable as a human wrecking ball, and even more formidable as the Red Tornado. I haven't been able to read many of her adventures, or "his" adventures, since no one knew the Tornado was a woman back then. This does make her the first cross-dressing woman in comics, and she pre-dates Wonder Woman by a few months as well. No one ever asked Red Tornado if she was male, so that is on them. The JSA would later find out who she was, and they never cared. I would so purchase a TPB of reprints of the Red Tornado.
Initially introduced as simply Ma Hunkel, she originated in Sheldon Mayer's semi-autobiographical humor feature in All-American Comics #3 as a supporting character of Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist.[3]
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