a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
CRUSHING IT
After taking the hero's virginity, Gamy also takes his life, but a helpful sea monster brings him back to life, in GOKUSOTSU KRAKEN.
Yet after he's back, the girls of the prison, such as Panya, keep testing his durability.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
GAYENDA GOES DOWN LIKE JENGA
It's not shown here, but native bad girl Gayenda initially defeats Tiger Girl with, of all things, an electrified shield, which I guess she picked up at her local Congo Black & Decker.
A TYGRA WALKS (AND HITS)
The debut of TYGRA, a regular civilized lady who becomes a jungle girl after taking a strength enhancing drug. Did other jungle girls consider that cheating?
Friday, March 8, 2024
BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLE
JUN-GAL debuted in BLAZING COMICS #1.; I'll let others debate the nature of the "bungle." But she was interesting in that she apparently got some degree of super strength from exposure to raw radium, anticipating the radiation-happy hero-origins later seen in Marvel Comics.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
SATANIC MANIC
Not much of a surprise that, when Chris Claremont crafted a SATANA story with EC's George Evans, the devil's daughter suddenly became a practiced fist-fighter.
She also got physical in her last 1970s solo outing in MARVEL PREVIEW #7, also written by Claremont.