FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Saturday, November 22, 2014
YEAR 1965: WONDER GIRL
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As I noted in my essay on the first Wonder Girl , for some time I regarded the earlier character as one with the character who was essen...
Monday, October 6, 2014
YEAR 1964: THE SCARLET WITCH
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Much like the Wasp and Marvel Girl, the Scarlet Witch received a bad rap, at least for her earliest depictions. Yet the character of ...
Friday, September 19, 2014
YEAR 1963: MERA
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Whereas Hawkgirl was created as an integral part of the Silver-Age HAWKMAN feature, Mera-- DC's first Silver-Age character to marry ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014
YEAR 1963: ELASTI-GIRL
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A while back, ultimate fighter Ronda Rousey-- who made her film debut this month in EXPENDABLES 3-- called out comics "for being se...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
YEAR 1963: THE WASP
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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...
Thursday, July 24, 2014
YEAR 1962: STAR SAPPHIRE
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Technically the character who became best-known for transforming into the DC character Star Sapphire appeared in 1959, not 1962. Howeve...
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Monday, June 23, 2014
YEAR 1961: HAWKGIRL
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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...
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