I have no idea how far I'll get with this project, but it recently occurred to me to ask myself: what are the best depictions of feminine pulchritude in comics art, AS ART? By that I mean not just covers, but also "splash panels" and full pages of sequential art whose craft and composition is good enough to get across some major kinetic or dramatic feeling. Panel-art which includes captions and dialogue may also be able to tap into more abstract values as well.
For instance, the cover of DETECTIVE #211 is a very dull Catwoman-cover.
But the inside splash panel to "The Jungle Cat-Queen" is one of the best depictions of Green and Purple Catwoman, even if you have to believe she has access to a tiger as big as a musk ox, given the way she's riding this one.
Other examples in this series don't necessarily have to be "femmes formidables"-- though they will comprise most of the selections-- but pulchritude does mean "beauty," so no Broom-Hilda or Lucy Van Pelt, delightful as they might be in other ways.
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