FEMMES FORMIDABLES
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
FOXY BOXERS (AND WRESTLERS)
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The splash page to this MARGIE tale is merely symbolic. But there's nothing imaginary about "It's in the Bag," wherein Os...
Sunday, July 27, 2025
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GAL
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From short-lived manga GAL KNIGHT ANGELICA.
SPARKLING SAPPHIRE
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GREEN LANTERN villain Star Sapphire started out fighting only with energy beams and constructs like the hero, but in later stories became m...
Saturday, July 26, 2025
TIMELY TUSSLES
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In "Out on a Limb" (1948) , two Timely twerps, CINDY and GOLDIE, tackle a guy thinking he's a famous celebrity and end up san...
DAISY MAE POKE HIM
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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. Whil...
Friday, July 25, 2025
NO LONGER POPULAR COMICS
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POPULAR COMICS once hosted various original comic-book stories and comic-strip reprints. From the series of "Martan the Marvel Man...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
MAD FLUBS
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From ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE 63:
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