FEMMES FORMIDABLES

A while back, ultimate fighter Ronda Rousey-- who made her film debut this month in EXPENDABLES 3-- called out comics "for being se...

Many early 1960s Marvel heroines get a bum rap, but none more so than the Wasp. She was introduced as a partner to the Ant-Man in TALE...

Technically the character who became best-known for transforming into the DC character Star Sapphire appeared in 1959, not 1962.  Howeve...

To the best of my knowledge the 1960s version of Hawkman and Hawkgirl-- a Silver Age of two Golden Age characters-- were the first m...

1959's SLEEPING BEAUTY may have been the first fantasy-film I saw on the big screen, since I have an intense memory of the end scene...

There was a time when I tended to disregard the first version of Wonder Girl in favor of the altered version who became a member of DC...

As of this writing I've only read three of the eleven novels starring Honey West, one of the best-known female detectives of the 20t...