SLAM THAT SPIRIT

 Sad to say, the splash showing Ellen trouncing the Spirit is merely symbolic, and the story's last page doesn't show her doing anything as violent as her girl-buddy, who gives the masked manhunter a good one in the labonza.

 

SWING OUT, NYOKA

 

THE BEST PART OF WAKING UP

 ... is a sister with Big Cups....                                                                         

(Forgot the name of the manhwa, but the aggressive sibling's name is Hanna Kang)

CAMILLA DROPPINGS

 

WESTWARD HOS

 

RENEGADE GIRL stars Ann Savage as Jean Shelby, an outlaw girl who falls in with Quantrill's Raiders after the Civil War. The movie's a fairly simple B-western drama, but Jean is pretty gutsy and good at both riding and handling a gun. In one scene, a male outlaw tries to crawl into her bedroll with her, and she puts him to sleep with her gun-butt. 

KNOCKOUT DROP

 The SKY GAL makes her imposter see stars not found in the sky.               

THE HALLS OF HARLEY AND IVY

 

GOLD AND SILVER SADISM #7

 And back I go to the "Gold and Silver" series whose name I don't care to type out. First, here's GINKA doling out her usual punishment.                    

Then both Ginka and Erika get competition from busty teacher MAKOTO, who imprisons Yasuda in her ampleness.                             

 

WESTWARD HOS

 One of the most iconic acts of frontier femme empowerment in my book is an early scene in THE PALEFACE. Some owlhoot assassins attempt to bushwack Jane Russell's Calamity Jane in a women's bathhouse. She decoys them by letting them find her garments and then appears behind them in her petticoats and gunbelt, shooting all of the killers to death without mercy.                                                                                              

SON OF PALEFACE isn't nearly as good but they did some posed shots of Russell treating Bob Hope to some frontier B&D.                           

 

SATANIC MANIC 0.5

 BLACKHAWK villainess SATANA just happens to resemble the adult daughter of a scientist so closely, she can convince him she's his real offspring, just before lowering the boom.                                                   

WICKED IS THE WIDOW

 From Natasha's happily brief time with that scrub-Avengers, the Champions.                                                                                                   

 

THE GENTLER SOCKS

 From ARCHIE'S PALS AND GALS #41 (1967): Archie relives his experiences with the gentler sex.                                                                

IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SLUG

 From the 1989 space-boxing film ARENA.                                                 

WRESTLING WITH AN ANGEL

 

In LAUGH #29, Archie wrestles with an angel-- a pro wrestler called "The Turkish Angel"-- and gets creamed. Then Betty creams the Angel. The two girls then chase him away with brooms, which scene isn't worth reproducing.

WESTWARD HOS

 Just Christine McIntyre winding up for one of the many slug-scenes in PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS.                                                                      

WESTWARD HOS

 If LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING supplies the most glamorous western catfight, the 1975 GONE WITH THE WEST provides the most grueling one-- and maybe the most extreme in any genre.              

WHEN TWO HEADS COME TOGETHER

 Ginger Snapp provides yet another teen-comedy spoof of helpless femininity, from some issue of LAUGH.                                                  

Followed by double-trouble. I like the way Ginger's friendly enemy Bunny goes along with beating up Icky even though she doesn't have anything against him-- except maybe that he was so unresponsive during their date that she tried to "make sure he was alive." Though if that unresponsiveness came about because Icky really wanted to be with Ginger, then it MIGHT make a little sense.                                                                          

A POLITICALLY INCORRECT SALUTE?

Though I do not possess and have not read COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 8, I suspect that the kind of "special recognition" it contains would not pass political muster today. But for once, I might be just as interested in the articles as in, uh, everything else.                                                                

WESTWARD HOS

I've long been impressed with how often American westerns have shown women in atypical positions of power and/or aggression. I may not be able to find many actual screenshots of such depictions, but I'll take a shot and maybe mix in this or that comics panel wherever I please. Having said all that about American westerns, my first example actually comes from a country that wasn't big on making western films but did know how to conjure with feminine images, La Belle France.             

From LES PETROLEUSES (it's an involved French pun, which got translated to THE LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING over here), here's Claudia Cardinale giving Brigitte Bardot a facial.                               

    Then Le Bardot returns the favor.                                                             

Then Michael J. Polland learns why you never get between girls giving each other a makeover.

ANGELPUSS GALORE

 

Did her parents name her "Angelpuss?" From COOKIE #1.

WORLD'S FLATTEST

 The Bat gets flattened by a fashion model in WORLDS FINEST 236. Okay, the stylishly named "Liza Faraday" is really a space disease in human form, but still.                                                                               

                          

NOT HIS FIRST TIME

Even though this item dates back to 1946, it's probably not even close to the first time Archie made a date with two girls and got clobbered for it.                                                                                                           

PLUS SIZED PERVERSIONS

 No culture on this planet has ever been as devoted to perversions, particularly of a clansgressive nature, as the Japanese, judging only by their manga. One example is a short-lived series called SIS PLUS, concerning a family whose parents are presumably deceased, since the four siblings-- an older brother and his three younger sisters-- eke out their living with a cake shop. The brother's never given a name except "Onee-chan," which means "brother," two of the girls, Shiho and Cocoa, are teenagers, and the last, Himeka, is said to be in elementary school by the translation but she looks more like a middle schooler. The comic gimmick is that Onee is fiercely protective of his sisters, fighting any male who comes near them, though he himself has no boundaries, insisting that his sibs should bathe with him or searching their private belongings for incriminating evidence, as in the scene below.                                                                                                             

Cocoa and Himeka often just humor their crazy brother, but Shiho frequently protests the crossed boundaries by beating up Onee. She gets a job doing anime voice-work, and in one of the scenes below, she clobbers Onee so that he won't hear a recording for which she made "sex sounds."                                                                                 

  

In the second story, a clandestine terrorist group kidnaps Himeka, who's a genius and whom they think they can use for making weapons. Himeka rather easily falls in with the group, seeming to "brainwash" herself, and when Onee comes to her rescue, Himeka repeatedly pounds him with a big hammer. This is one indication that Himeka might be older than elementary school, since both she and Onee seem to be "getting into" the violence, until Shiho terminates the domme-play by punching Onee.                                                                   

                                                               

                                   

GETTING GASSY

 Gas Girl proving that she's a knockout.                                                                                                                    

RING THAT BELLE!

 

Here's Buffalo Belle, making an owlhoot's head do the ringing. I also note that she has a somewhat more impressive rack than most comics-females of the period. She appeared in most/all issues of ACG's BLAZING WEST.                                                                                                                                                                                  Added later: