FOXY BOXERS (AND WRESTLERS)

The splash page to this MARGIE tale is merely symbolic.

 But there's nothing imaginary about "It's in the Bag," wherein Oscar's GF Kitty keeps badgering him about his boxing until she achieves her real end of laying him out.

Then we get Cindy putting on merely symbolic muscle...

After which it's time to ring the bell for the real thing.

 

And then there's other sports to play at.

Then we have domestic games. All the preceding from CINDY COMICS, and these from KRAZY KOMICS.

  

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GAL

 From short-lived manga GAL KNIGHT ANGELICA.

SPARKLING SAPPHIRE

 GREEN LANTERN villain Star Sapphire started out fighting only with energy beams and constructs like the hero, but in later stories became more of a hands-on type.

 

TIMELY TUSSLES

 In "Out on a Limb" (1948) , two Timely twerps, CINDY and GOLDIE, tackle a guy thinking he's a famous celebrity and end up sandbagging their principal.

JINNY gets into the act by making Willie into a hothead who's "In the Dough."

 No comedy violence on the cover but it's pretty good anyway.

And in the next issue, we get a totally unheralded crossover between the alliterative Jeanie Johnson and Millie the Model in "A Modeling Mood."

  

DAISY MAE POKE HIM

 The first tier of this 1949 LI'L ABNER Sunday strip is in one sense more remarkable than the FEARLESS FOSDICK story it leads into. While I've yet to read all of the strips from the strip's forty-year history, most of those I've read show Abner's true love Daisy Mae Scragg as a "shrinking violet" femme, who could not defend herself to save her life. This was in contrast to the many tough women in Al Capp's Abnerverse. So it's a real eyebrow-raiser when Capp does a gag in which Daisy cries out for help when assaulted, and when Abner pays no attention because he's reading the FOSDICK "comical strip," she simply punches out the big goon herself.

 

NO LONGER POPULAR COMICS

 POPULAR COMICS once hosted various original comic-book stories and comic-strip reprints. From the series of "Martan the Marvel Man" we have Martan saving Earth from space invaders with the help of his wife Vana. Note how the shoulder-pads on Vana's outfit make her look bulked-up, though her actual proportions are ordinary.

 

And in the series "Hurricane Kids," Maya shows herself to be a pretty Polynesian kickboxer.

 

MAD FLUBS

 From ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE 63:

PHANTOM, MENACED

 

NATSUKI IN CRISIS

 All the good scenes from the brief manga NATSUKI CRISIS.

MORE QUALITY QUELLINGS

 Nylon Hose shows some Spirit.

And an unnamed blonde makes Woozy woozier.

The Queen Bee shows off her stinger but unfortunately gets no chances to clip the wings of the Blackhawks.

 

A.I. LUMP YOU

 Teen protagonist Hitoshi usually gets lumps from his A.I. harem, but he also gets a few from a Real Girl.

MORE PHANTOM FUN

 Well, it's better than doing another "Blonde Ambition" pun.

A MISS IS AS GOOD AS A FIST

 From BLONDE PHANTOM #12, which oddly has no strong fight-action for its headliner, only for "backup feature" Miss America.

HIGH SCHOOL HITS

 Not sure I'll finish IKETERU FUTARI but here's a quickie from Koizumi Akira and some others.    

JUNGLE GALLERY

 Nyoka. nullifying nuisances.