Miss Fury: Joy Division

Miss Fury #4

by Billy Tucci, Maria Laura Sanapo (Artist), Edu Menna (Artist)

In "Miss Joy Division," writer Billy Tucci, along with artists Maria Laura Sanapo and Edu Menna, delves into the eponymous deep dark secret of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Through the 1940s, several Nazi concentration camps featured brothels wherein Jewish women were forced to work as prostitutes for soldiers. This rarely discussed, dark tragedy of history remains starkly relevant today. Now, Miss Fury and her team of Black Furies have discovered this cruel phenomenon - and they're going to kick some Nazi ass, in an all-female style mission of revenge. The original graphic novel includes a chapter illustrated by Billy Tucci and fits perfectly into a continuity gap in the original storylines of Miss Fury, taking place in the summer of 1944. Miss Fury - real name Marla Drake - dates back to 1941 and holds the esteemed distinction of being the first female hero created by a woman in the medium. Writer and artist June Tarpe Mills chronicled the tales of the original "Cat Woman" for a full decade in newspaper strips, with the character also licensed at the time for a Marvel comic book. Mills and her heroine were more ahead of their time than even their notable first indicates. Mills dropped her first name when signing the strip to disguise her gender. When Marla was depicted wearing a bikini in a 1947 strip, 37 papers dropped the feature in protest. "I take it very, very seriously to honor Miss Fury's creator, June Tarpe Mills, and to bring to light one of the most heinous yet forgotten episodes of the Holocaust." - Billy Tucci

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 2, 2022

Reviews

[Mohan Vemulapalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Miss Fury: Joy Division" is a hard hitting and violent tribute to the original "Miss Fury comics. Utilizing original supporting characters, villains and plot devices, this book steers close to the vision of June Tarpé Mills, the first woman to create a female super hero, while addressing modern sensibilities and providing a more nuanced and complicated story than the original ones . The book does contain some minor historical discrepancies but these can be easily overlooked in light of its strong anti-fascist stance and overall strong story telling.

4.5 stars rounded to 4.

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good homage to the first woman to create the first female superhero. It's a real dark story with Miss Fury going behind enemy lines to bring a war criminal in who was running a concentration camp. They also forced Jewish women to work in brothels for the soldiers stationed there. Pretty harrowing stuff.