FROM HERE TO OBSCURITY

I had never noticed Fox Comics' ALL GREAT COMICS title, and I find it hilarious that the cover to issue 14 claims that any of these comic strip features (aside from BRENDA STARR) were "famous" even in 1947. There's no scene resembling the tough-girl fisticuffs in the "Surgeon Smith" feature, so it's almost certainly something that was whipped up to sell the book.

   Worthy of a quick look is the 2-page feature THE KRIME KIDS, whose format does not look like any sort of newspaper comic strip. In it, the mischievous brats first tease, and then venerate, the dynamic "Sweet Miss Carroll."

 

An issue of ALL GREAT designated only as "1945" on Comic Book Plus includes more obscurities, like "Pussy Katnip," a borderline superhero in the funny animal genre.

In a humor strip called "Bill Buster," Bill gets busted up by a tough girl named Mabel.

TERRA-RIZED

 

The Gold Key villainess (not the DC character) TERRA OF JERZ, who hands Mighty Samson a shocking time.  

SLAM THAT SPIRIT

 Sad to say, the splash showing Ellen trouncing the Spirit is merely symbolic, and the story's last page doesn't show her doing anything as violent as her girl-buddy, who gives the masked manhunter a good one in the labonza.

 

SWING OUT, NYOKA

 

THE BEST PART OF WAKING UP

 ... is a sister with Big Cups....                                                                         

(Forgot the name of the manhwa, but the aggressive sibling's name is Hanna Kang)

CAMILLA DROPPINGS

 

WESTWARD HOS

 

RENEGADE GIRL stars Ann Savage as Jean Shelby, an outlaw girl who falls in with Quantrill's Raiders after the Civil War. The movie's a fairly simple B-western drama, but Jean is pretty gutsy and good at both riding and handling a gun. In one scene, a male outlaw tries to crawl into her bedroll with her, and she puts him to sleep with her gun-butt.