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Octobriana, also known as N. Pacenikov, was an immortal avenger who travelled in Time and Space in the Wonder Machine. The self-proclaimed “Spirit of the October Revolution”, hence her name, Octobriana was a communist hero who would often fight against the corruption and tyranny of allegedly communist regimes in the Cold War. Several versions of Octobriana across the Multiverse were familiar with Jenny Everywhere.
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Biography
As N. Pacenikov
One version of Octobriana was also known by the more conventional name of “N. Pacenikov”. She was listed, under both her legal name and the “Octobriana” alias, as an associate of Jenny Everywhere on a wanted poster put out for Jenny across her incarnations by an alliance of various organisations. (PROSE: Wanted for Questioning)
Legacy of the Masque
Another appeared in Miss Masque's city, as did Jenny Everywhere. (VIDEO: Legacy of the Masque)
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Origins
Octobriana is widely considered the predecessor to Jenny Everywhere as an “open-source comic-book hero”, willfully created to operate in the public domain. She was an influence on the Barbelith community during the early stages of Jenny's creation in 2001, being cited by the Institute for the Future of the Book's Jenny Everywhere essay as Jenny's somewhat less successful “print prototype”.
Octobriana's origins are, however, somewhat murkier than Jenny's. The first two Octobriana stories, The Living Sphinx of the Kamchatka Radioactive Volcano 1934 and Octobriana and the Living Suns of Comrade Mao, were created by by the writer Petr Sadecký by reskinning unfinished comics he had commissioned from Czech artists Bohumil Konečný and Zdeněk Burian for an unpublished comic book series named Amazona, which would have no particular political background. Sadecky then brought his “Octobriana” stories to the West across the iron curtain without having actually paid Konečný and Burian for their work.
He published them in the book Octobriana and the Russian Underground not as original comics, but as part of a literary hoax claiming that they were only two extracts from a long-running series of Octobriana comics created in the 1960s by underground artists working in Soviet Russia. As Sadecky's claims included that “Octobriana's creators” had created her as a character that anyone could use, it is usually understood that he functionally released his creation Octobriana into the public domain. Unlike the Paragraph used for Jenny and related characters, Octobriana is not usually reckoned to require any kind of statement to be lawfully used in new productions.