Barbie Winslow

Barbie Winslow made her entrance in the Bronze Age pages of The Calgary Herald Comic Book in 1979, the creation of cartoonist Bill Hinds and a product of that wonderfully eclectic era when newspaper publishers brought their own comic collections to readers. With only a handful of catalog appearances, she's a genuine rarity — the kind of character who shares her pages with the likes of Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering, suggesting a publication with real adventure-strip ambitions. For collectors with a taste for regional and off-the-beaten-path Bronze Age curiosities, Barbie Winslow is exactly the sort of discovery that makes digging through back-issue bins so rewarding.