Queen Ursula (Earth-616)

Queen Ursula
Name	Ursula
Affiliation and Relationships
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	Castile D'or
Occupation	Queen of Castile D'or
Base of Operations	Castile D'or
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Paul Lauretta,
First	Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (April, 1939)
First	Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (April, 1939)

Queen Ursula.....One of the most beautiful women of all times, but beneath this mask of beauty beats a heart as cold and hard as steel. Through these long years she has remained in exile growing older, more vicious, but her captivating beauty never fading.

—Narrator[source]

History

Following a bloody conflict in which 15 million people died, the people of Europe finally decided to put aside their need for conflict and strove for peace. One of the biggest instigators of the war had been Queen Ursula of the European principality Castile D'or, a beautiful but ruthless leader, who found herself exiled to an islet in the Atlantic following the conflict. In the years that passed, the Queen became bitter and vowed to get a revenge against the nations that forced her into exile.

In the late 1930s, with many of the government still loyal to her, they smuggled her back into Castile D'or when the opportunity to regain control of the country presented itself. After Queen Ursula took the control of her country, she schemed with her minister Josef an attack to the neighbouring country Attania, which had taken her richest colonies almost twenty years ago. However, they lacked a reason for war declaration. So they hired an assassin dressed as an Attanian soldier to kill the Castile D'or diplomat and she rallied her people to go to war against Attania.

As the conflict continued to escalate, the Queen published propaganda papers rallying more public support to strike out at other nations. She hoped that this would be the first step in conquering the whole world. Although American Perry Webb vowed to topple the Queen's regime, the downfall of her attempted takeover remains unrevealed. One source suggests that her own attempt to power was overshadowed by the beginning of World War II shortly after her invasion of Attania.

Notes

• Queen Ursula was the villain of the Golden Age stories of "American Ace", which were scheduled to be serialized in the issues of Marvel Mystery Comics (as noted in the final page of the "American Ace" story in Marvel Mystery Comics #3) however, for whatever reason the story was dropped.
• The original creator, Paul J. Lauretta, brought the characters of American Ace and Queen Ursula to the publisher Centaur Comics, where they have two more adventures. Queen Ursula kept her name in the Centaur version and all the stories appeared to be in the same continuity as the original Marvel ones. She had her last appearance in Amazing Mystery Funnies #24 with a last confrontation with "American Ace", but the war was left unresolved. Nowadays the Centaur stories are in public domain, but it isn't confirmed that stories are in continuity to Earth-616.

See Also

• 3 appearance(s) of Queen Ursula (Earth-616)
• 4 image(s) of Queen Ursula (Earth-616)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Queen Ursula (Earth-616)