SuperFriends Team Member

Rima the Jungle Girl
Information
Real name:	Rima
AKA:	The Daughter of the Didi
Species:	Metahuman
Home Planet:	Earth
Universe:	Earth-1A
Hair:	White
Base:	Hall of Justice
Affiliations:	SuperFriends
Abilities:	communicates with animals
Voiced by:	Shannon Farnon (Season 2) Kathy Garver (1980 Short)[?]

Rima the Jungle Girl is a superheroine and a part-time member of the Justice League of America.

Contents 1 SuperFriends Team Member 2 Background Information 3 Abilities 4 Episode Appearances 5 Notes 6 SuperFriends Team Members 7 External Links 8 References

Background InformationEdit

Natives avoided her forest, calling her "the Daughter of the Didi" (an evil spirit), but Rima's only defense is a reputation for magic, earned through the display of strange talents such as talking to birds, befriending animals, and plucking poison darts from the air.^[1]

AbilitiesEdit

• She has the ability to communicate with animals.
• She is an expert:
  • tracker
  • at hand-to-hand combat
  • wilderness survival
• She has an extensive knowledge of animal habitats and jungle lore.
• She possesses the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.

Episode AppearancesEdit

• Season 2 (1977):
  • Fire
  • River of Doom
• 1980 Shorts:
  • Return of Atlantis

NotesEdit

• Rima sprang from a Victorian adventure novel, 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest', published in 1904 by the Argentine-British writer W. H. Hudson. He based Rima on a persistent South American legend about a lost tribe of white people who lived in the mountains. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1959 in which actress Audrey Hepburn portrayed her. The film also starred Anthony Perkins and was directed by Mel Ferrer.
• Rima first appeared in comic book form in Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1^[2] (May 1974).
  • The series was a short-lived seven-issue comic book series Rima the Jungle Girl, published by DC Comics from May 1974 to May 1975.Which was an adaptation of the original novel until issue #4, then became original stories, picking up where the film left off.^[3].
  • Rima the Jungle Girl is published on a bi-monthly basis.
  • It was adapted by an uncredited writer. Starting with issue #5, DC writer-editor Robert Kanigher is given credit.
• Rima is not intended to be a Tarzan type character, rather she was intended to be portrayed as:^[4]
  • goddess of the forest
  • preserver of the forest
  • preserver of the animals

SuperFriends Team MembersEdit

External LinksEdit

• See Rima the Jungle Girl at wikipedia.org
• See Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1(May 1974 - May 1975) at DC Database
• See Rima at Public Domain Super Heroes

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Based on her 7-part comic book series, Rima the Jungle Girl, Vol. 1 (May 1974 - May 1975) which can be found at the DC Database .
2. ↑ Go to the DC Database for more on Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1 (May 1974)
3. ↑ As revealed in the 7-part comic book series, Rima the Jungle Girl, Vol. 1 (May 1974 - May 1975).
4. ↑ From the DVD commentary on Season 2 vol. 1.