**"Vampirella personifies a certain archetype, she's pure and virginal, but still walks around half-naked. What more can any man ask for in a woman," muses politically incorrect illustrator Joe Linsner, who's been rendering beautiful comic book heroines for various companies lately, including Topps. Joe's first exposure to the character was Jose Gonzalez' famed 6-foot Vampi poster. "I was only a kid at the time, flipping through the pages of EERIE, and there she was. Although she's a vampire, which is traditionally an agent of evil, Vampirella has this purity and is always trying to set things straight," he adds. "So for this illustration, the 'angel wings' motif make a great deal of sense to me." *Source: Back of card