ANGEL AN' DESE GUYS

 

JUST CALL HER ANGEL, EVERY MORNING

 

DON'T SQUEEZE THE SHARMAINE

 After 25 issues of being "the damsel" in MIGHTY SAMSON, Sharmaine starts getting in touch with her inner Angela Mao.

WESTWARD HOS

 KIT WEST had a feature in Avon's COW PUNCHER COMICS and then appeared in various other Avon comics, such as this fake story of her origins in the one-shot WHITE CHIEF OF THE PAWNEE INDIANS. 

These three are from COW PUNCHER.

JUNGLE GALLERY

 

MY LITTLE MAIMER

 TV's MY LITTLE MARGIE was more violent than any other fifties sitcom. But though occasionally precocious daughter Margie occasionally punched someone, or hit someone with a blunt object, the show didn't go to the lengths of the comic book. 

STING OF THE SILVER SCORPON

 

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.

  

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.

 

Given how few hillbilly girls show up here, I might as well add Clara Belle of POKEY OAKLEY here. 

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.