"The year was 1947 when the late Mars Ravelo and illustrator Nestor Redondo created Philippines first comics flying avenger Varga, for Bulaklak comics / magazine. Varga was, in all things but name, the woman we now know as Darna. She stood up for the weak, battling common criminals as well as evil in superhuman form. But Varga belonged to Bulaklak magazine, and when Ravelo left Bulaklak in 1949 after a falling out with its editor, Varga stayed behind...."
