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The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
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“...it was Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, who released the most issues. Appearing in two of the top five most prolific comics (Jumbo Comics as well as her own title) Sheena was also Queen of the Comics.
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The publisher of Sheena, Fiction House, was a fascinating company. Because of a shortage of male creatives caused by World War II, Fiction House hired women for all creative roles. Artist Murphy Anderson (Superman, Hawkman), who worked for Fiction House as a teenager, remembered that only a few men were present in the office. Notable artists in the company’s bullpen include Lily Renée, who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria, and Marcia Snyder, a queer artist who lived with her girlfriend in Greenwich Village. Perhaps hiring so many women explains why Fiction House produced an abundance of female-centric stories.”
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
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The publisher of Sheena, Fiction House, was a fascinating company. Because of a shortage of male creatives caused by World War II, Fiction House hired women for all creative roles. Artist Murphy Anderson (Superman, Hawkman), who worked for Fiction House as a teenager, remembered that only a few men were present in the office. Notable artists in the company’s bullpen include Lily Renée, who had escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria, and Marcia Snyder, a queer artist who lived with her girlfriend in Greenwich Village. Perhaps hiring so many women explains why Fiction House produced an abundance of female-centric stories.”
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
“Arguably the first female detective in comics, Sally the Sleuth has a strange history, evolving from a nudie girl in distress to a business-suit-wearing power detective a decade later.
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Sally’s tales don’t end with the era of pre-comic-book pulps. She was brought back in the 1950s in Crime Smashers, a rough-and-tumble crime comic anthology series published by Culture’s sister company, Trojan. New creators handled her adventures, now in bold, full color.”
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
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Sally’s tales don’t end with the era of pre-comic-book pulps. She was brought back in the 1950s in Crime Smashers, a rough-and-tumble crime comic anthology series published by Culture’s sister company, Trojan. New creators handled her adventures, now in bold, full color.”
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
“Superstar comics artist Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn) even got her start in comics art by submitting outfit ideas to Katy’s 1980s reboot. Katy”
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
― The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History
