FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Sunday, February 16, 2014
YEAR 1954: ANNIE OAKLEY
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There was of course no resemblance between the real-life sharpshooter Annie Oakley and this early television heroine, played by frequent...
YEAR 1953: LORNA THE JUNGLE GIRL
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Prior to Atlas Comics' debut of JANN OF THE JUNGLE, writer Don Rico and artist Werner Roth conceived one of the better jungle girls ...
Saturday, January 25, 2014
YEAR 1949: KYRA ZELAS
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The Stanley G. Weinbaum short story was adapted once for radio and three times for television. As I'm not dealing with radio produc...
Friday, January 24, 2014
YEAR 1948: POWDER POUF
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Eisner's fierce femme formidable, Powder Pouf, only appeared in a couple of Will Eisner SPIRIT stories. She's not a great favo...
YEAR 1947: DARNA
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To be sure, the Mars Ravelo/Nestor Redondo superheroine who originally appeared in a 1947 issue of the Phillippines BULAKLAK MAGAZINE was ca...
Sunday, January 12, 2014
YEAR 1947: THE THORN
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The Thorn, unlike many of the super-villains of late 1940s DC, was not revived in the Silver Age, but had to wait until the Bronze Age. Eve...
Monday, December 2, 2013
YEAR 1946: THE WOLF GAL
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In one of the JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN, the ape-man kills one of the native tribesmen who have been his enemies since they killed his adop...
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