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Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics by Maria Elena Buszek, Mike Madrid
katrinky's review against another edition
3.0
My review of this book will be in the winter issue of Bitch magazine! Get your copy here: http://bitchmagazine.org
jeninmotion's review against another edition
3.0
Here's the thing: I'm grateful this book exists. It's important that we catalog how women were represented in early comics and how the Comics Code and market forces post World War 2 gave us 20 years of retrograde trash in women's representation BUT...
...I can't be the only person who thinks a lot of these were...um, not very good? Jill Trent, Calamity Jane, and Amazona were my favorites and a lot of the rest were in this range between "what is this utter nonsense?" (Marga the Panther Woman) to forgettable (most of the patriotic WW2 Nazi-punching ladies). And even the ones I enjoyed would have things like endless violence against women and racism and just stuff that made me go, "in fact 90% of these can stay forgotten outside of historical importance and that's ok."
...I can't be the only person who thinks a lot of these were...um, not very good? Jill Trent, Calamity Jane, and Amazona were my favorites and a lot of the rest were in this range between "what is this utter nonsense?" (Marga the Panther Woman) to forgettable (most of the patriotic WW2 Nazi-punching ladies). And even the ones I enjoyed would have things like endless violence against women and racism and just stuff that made me go, "in fact 90% of these can stay forgotten outside of historical importance and that's ok."
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