A POIL OF GREAT PUNCHRITUDE

 Poil, girlfriend of Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, usually confined herself to nagging her boo-sterous beau about all his annoying scare tactics.

But not always,,,

ROMITA'S MEDUSA AND BLACK WIDOW

 The late great John Romita Sr didn't drew very many women in fight-scenes, but this is arguably his best of those.

By comparison, the brief dust-up between Spidey and the new improved Black Widow-- kind of sucks.

COVER GRRLS

 Self-explanatory.

LUCKY DALE

 Was the name a pun on "lucky day?" Whatever the original idea, Lucky Dale (possibly a creation of Matt Baker) was a reasonably intrepid girl detective, often charging into messes with no partner or backup. She appeared about a half dozen times as a backup strip to Avon's 1947 THE SAINT, which itself sported original material for six issues before finishing up with reprints of old SAINT comic-strip sequences. (Curiously, the magazine also reprinted one isolated sequence from MISS FURY.) Lucky used a handgun just once, and what looked like "slap karate" in one issue. If it was meant to be karate, Lucky's main distinction was that of showing off the worst karate chops of all time.

LORNA THE JUNGLE HAYMAKER

 Cover of LORNA #17, by Carl "Human Torch" Burgos.

CUTEY BUNNY

R.I.P., Joshua Quagmire, creator of the comical superheroine Cutey Bunny, who passed in the last week. Whereas I had to really hunt around for good "fight-girl" panels when Golden Age artist Lily Renee passed, all of Quagmire's rowdy-rabbit adventures are largely concentrated in a limited number of publications.

Here's one I already reprinted earlier, probably his best couple of brawls.

And here's a few more.

And one for CB's silly villain Ashtoreth:

SMOOTH AS SILK

The grifter known as "Silk" played straight woman to the theoretical star of a Quality Comics strip, "Her Highness." Said star was a gnome-sized, crooked broad who kept trying to come up with masterful swindling schemes. Most of the time, the larcenous duo failed to swindle anyone and just ended up breaking up the schemes of other crooks, inadvertently helping the forces of law and order. In any case, Silk was a mega-tough broad, though I don't think that after her first appearance she was laying out huge bruisers like the one seen here.

SILVER SCORPION'S STING

 From COMEDY COMICS #9 (1942):

HUMILIATION WITH MILLIE AND CHILI

 Millie defends her little f***er Flicker with a stern uppercut.

Later, poor Mike gets pummeled when one of Chili's plans goes awry.