#Merla The Warrior Queen of Amazonia

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Profiles in Villainy 

Merla The Warrior Queen of Amazonia 

The despotic Merla rules an alien world where women lord over men.  She and her Amazonian army would send out flashing signals into the cosmos so to lure others to her planet.  Equipped with powerful hypnotic rings, Merla would then mind-control any woman who came to her planet, forcing them to join her army. While any male captures were made into slaves who toiled in servitude.   

Josie and The Pussycats fell into Merla’s trap and the space-faring pop stars were hypnotized into joining the queen’s ranks.  The Pussycats’ roadies, Alexander and Alan, were able to escape and the pair eventually freed the Pussycats thus enabling them all to flee the planet.  

Merla was voiced by actress Virginia Gregg and appeared in the sixteenth episode of Josie and The Pussycats in Outer Space, airing on December 23rd, 1972.