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The Space Sirens
Gang of all-female space pirates in the "Sirens of Space!" story of sci-fi comic book Strange Worlds #5 (November 1951).
Their base is on Mimas, which is a moon of Saturn, but in the story is mistakenly attributed to Jupiter. Read an astronomy textbook, dude.
From there, they capture passing spaceships, taking their cargoes and enslaving their occupants. They appear, scantily clad, in floating bubbles, singing a song of far places and old legends. Sexy, cruel Lura is the queen of the space sirens, and explains: "But the inbuilt amplifiers and antenna attached to our space bubbles distort it-- magnify it far above one hundred and thirty decibels! As you know a man feels pain when a noise above 130 decibels affects him! Imagine sound raised another hundred decibels-- and you know and feel the agony that the song of the sirens causes!"
With crew and passengers thus incapacitated, the ship is then easy pickings. Reporter Maeve Malloy alerts Captain Dave Kenton of the Space Patrol, who investigates, gets captured, escapes, manages to get the upper hand, and defeats them.
