KIT WEST had a feature in Avon's COW PUNCHER COMICS and then appeared in various other Avon comics, such as this fake story of her origins in the one-shot WHITE CHIEF OF THE PAWNEE INDIANS.
These three are from COW PUNCHER.
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
KIT WEST had a feature in Avon's COW PUNCHER COMICS and then appeared in various other Avon comics, such as this fake story of her origins in the one-shot WHITE CHIEF OF THE PAWNEE INDIANS.
These three are from COW PUNCHER.
TV's MY LITTLE MARGIE was more violent than any other fifties sitcom. But though occasionally precocious daughter Margie occasionally punched someone, or hit someone with a blunt object, the show didn't go to the lengths of the comic book.
The splash page to this MARGIE tale is merely symbolic.
Then we get Cindy putting on merely symbolic muscle...
After which it's time to ring the bell for the real thing.
Then we have domestic games. All the preceding from CINDY COMICS, and these from KRAZY KOMICS.
GREEN LANTERN villain Star Sapphire started out fighting only with energy beams and constructs like the hero, but in later stories became more of a hands-on type.