FEMMES FORMIDABLES

As the sixties drew to a close the publishers of "mainstream" color comics were still hemmed in by their self-policing Comics ...

By 1968 the British teleseries THE AVENGERS had lost the services of Diana Rigg to portray the popular character of Emma Peel.  For the...

Although in some reminiscences Julie Scwhartz claimed that he didn't even remember the Bat-Girl of the Jack Schiff period, I find it...

Prior to the 1966-68 teleseries, Catwoman, like the rest of Batman's classic villains, had never been translated to audiovisual medi...

Though Cathy Gale hit the airwaves first, Emma Peel became the femme formidable most associated with the AVENGERS franchise.  In the ...

It's at least an interesting turnabout that a character originally intended as a stock stereotypical threat-- in this case, that of a na...

Critics like Trina Robbins and Alan Moore have been unjust to the Invisible Girl, implying that all there was to her were her stereotypi...