Jan 12, 2012
Heroine Chic
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Evie Nagy discusses Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944–1949, a collection of Miss Fury, the first female superhero, strips:
Contrary to common belief, Wonder Woman was not the first female superhero. She was preceded by more than half a year by Miss Fury, who starred in her own Sunday comic strip for 10 years beginning in April 1941. Miss Fury was created, written, and drawn by a woman, June Tarpé Mills, who published under the more sexually ambiguous Tarpé Mills. Had Miss Fury entered an enduring canon like DC’s, it’s possible that the template for female superheroes, as well as for superhero comic readership, would have depended more on the influence and perspective of actual women.
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