Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas bring to paper the story of Elizabeth Wilkinson to the pages of Legendary Comics with the help of Amanda Perez Puentes. Elizabeth was a female bare-knuckle boxer from 18th century London. The actual Elizabeth might have been one of the first female prizefighter in history, having advertised her challenge to Hannah Hyfield in a London newspaper. Her prowess, and desire to fight with a top on, which was not common for the era caused her to be viewed as a serious athlete, and as such earned her the title of “the Championess of England!”
The story from Legendary takes some liberties, changing Elizabeth to a half-Indian woman struggling to cover her sister’s debts forced to turn to her passion of bareknuckle boxing with the help of historically famous James Figg as her trainer and promoter, a true fact from history.
The graphic novel is also being adapted into a UK based television series. If you don’t want to wait for the series, you can read the graphic novel when it releases on April 13, 2021. You can pre-order the graphic novel Here!
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