Apparently both Marvel and DC came out with Titanias in the same year. DC's version is less well designed, but she does have the distinction of beating down a hero with Superboy-level strength.
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Friday, March 26, 2021
FF#67: STARFIRE (1976)
And here's the second female Starfire, a pretty routine sword-and-sorcery babe with pretty routine art.
FF #66: RYOKO MITSURUGI
Nothing special about this six-volume series, REAL BOUT HIGH SCHOOL, but on occasion its star Ryoko Mitsurugi does pretty well with both kendo fighting and fist fighting.
Sunday, March 21, 2021
FF #65: THE QUEEN OF CLUBS
And here's poor pitiful Wonder Woman again, getting trounced by the Queen of Clubs, a villainess who hasn't a tenth of the heroine's strength or skill, but has a sort of "fix" in...
FF #64: PHANTOM GIRL
Might as well add the other Lady Legionnaire to the list. Is it strange that in her case I thought her best costume was the one that covered up the most skin?
FF #63: OSIRA AND WONDER WOMAN
Given how many Egyptian goddesses are recorded, did Martin Pasko really have to give us an Egyptian villainess with a "feminized" form of a male god's name?
Regardless, here's the forgettable Osira putting the slug on the Amazon Princess.
FF#62: NYOKA THE JUNGLE GIRL
I've already devoted three other posts to Nyoka here, but they don't make clear this Fawcett Comics heroine's tendency to engage in prolonged fisticuffs. as opposed to the usual "knock 'em down in one avenging blow" style. From NYOKA #70.
FF #61: MERA
Aquaman's wife Mera had certainly seen better artwork than that of Juan Ortiz from AQUAMAN #59, featuring the water-witch in her own backup series-- but at least it does give the character her first solo outing, as well as a lot of fight-clubbery.
Friday, March 19, 2021
FF #60: LI SAN O'ROURKE
The original ATARI FORCE giveaway comic was pedestrian in every way except for this nicely rendered fight scene between the Chinese/Irish "Li San" and the dull-as-dirt mission commander "Martin Champion."
FF #59: KAOLLA SU
The most overtly sadistic of the LOVE HINA girls-- and that's saying something-- was middle schooler Kaolla Su, who liked to announce herself to her favorite victim Keitaro with a flying kick.
FF #58: IRON MAIDEN AND JOYSTICK
You don't get to see these two female super-villains duke it out aside from this teasing page. Just couldn't resist sticking an "I" and a "J" together.
FF #57: HAWKGIRL (1940)
The original Hawkgirl had a slow start, beginning as Hawkman's girlfriend before eventually donning her own hawk-outfit. She got captured a lot at first, but eventually developed into a decent crimefighter.
FF #56: GOLDEN GIRL (1978)
The third heroine (known to me) to sport the "Golden Girl" moniker was a WWII Japanese teen girl who gained super powers but could still kick butt the old fashioned way as well.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
FF #54: EMPRESS
Barely looked at YOUNG JUSTICE so I know nuttin' about this one, except she;s the brunette in the mask.
Monday, March 15, 2021
FF #53: DOCTOR MINERVA
Not a major Marvel character by any means-- though a similarly named character popped up in the "Marvel Captain Marvel" flick-- but here's Minerva kick-clobbering Captain America.
FF #52: CASSANDRA CRAFT
DC's THE PHANTOM STRANGER wasn't the most likely place to find kung-fu fighting, much less by a hot blind blonde chick-- yet, improbably, here's one such from TPS #22.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
FF #51: BETTY AND VERONICA
Eventually I may locate a combo scene, but for now, here's the blonde dynamite--
Closely followed by the brunette variety.
FF #50: ASUKA LANGLEY SORYU
Technically Asuka debuted as an animated TV character on the series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, but the manga adaptation also shows her as one of the more tempestuous femmes formidables of the nineties.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
FF #49: ZEALOT
Zealot was a routine "bad girl" of nineties comics, usually seen slicing people up with her swords. Here's a relatively rare punchout scene from #1.
FF #48: YANKEE GIRL
Yankee Girl was one of the less noteworthy solo heroines of the Golden Age, and quite frankly her few exploits (wherein she was sometimes re-named "Kitty Kelley" for some reason) are pretty poor artistically. At least sometimes her art got better when she, along with a dozen or so public domain characters, got revived by Americomics. From FEMFORCE #57: