Friday, December 25, 2020

FF #7: GOLDEN GIRL (1948)

Betty Ross, a minor support-character who provided a slight romantic interest in the Golden Age CAPTAIN AMERICA feature, replaced Bucky as Cap's partner in the waning days of the comic book (issue #46). She had a few decent fight-scenes but nothing on the level of the better "femme formidable" comics of the early forties, like Black Angel and Miss Victory.




FF#6: FAIRCHILD

 The "strongman" from the fairly long-lived nineties supergroup was Fairchild, here seen under hypnotic control, about to pound one of her teammates into mulch.




Thursday, December 24, 2020

FF#5: ELEKTRA


 


One of Elektra's better performances from her epic (and fatal) fight with Bullseye in DAREDEVIL #181.

FF#4: DUO DAMSEL

 


The Legionnaire called Duo Damsel had a pretty unspectacular power, that of being able to make one duplicate of herself. However, she gets one moment of glory in ADVENTURE COMICS #372, as her two selves get to beat up a villain, Nemesis Kid, who earlier in the story clobbered Superboy.

FF #3: CHITOGE KIRISAKI

The comedy-romance manga NISEKOI presents the familiar trope of the "tough girl" who constantly beats up on an average guy who annoys her, all with the aim of fomenting a fractious romance. This page is cute not just because Chitoge punches out her future boyfriend Raku, but also because she does so because he implied she was indelicate-- which she proceeds to demonstrate with the punchout.






FF #2: BLACK THORN

 I made the mistake of buying a "brick" of all the issues of the DC series CHECKMATE. I've no one to blame but myself for not realizing how bad it would be, since I'd read a few loose issues previously. About the only thing that was slightly impressive were a few fight-scenes featuring a superheroine named Black Thorn, who never got her own series, though possibly her appearances in CHECKMATE were an attempt to give her some fan-popularity. Scenes from issues 8 and 15 of CHECKMATE.





FF #1: THE ACE OF BLADES

Female heroes in 1940s often boasted formidable skills in judo, boxing and wrestling, but female villains usually weren't so competent. A one shot exception (from Contact Comics #10, 1946) was a Japanese lady pilot, The Ace of Blades, who had a fatal encounter with Golden Eagle, Holyoke Comics' knockoff of the popular Blackhawk.