Comments on: The truth about comics

by: Barry Buchanan

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:13:55 +0000

I’m not gonna plant a flag or anything, but isn’t that 2nd picture down Jack Kirby and Roz reading to some kids? It sure looks like the two of them.

by: STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: March 24th, 2008

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:52:58 +0000

[…] The truth about comics from THE BEAT […]

by: Patrick Dean

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:50:15 +0000

Gay Willie Joker = Skrull.

by: Michael

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:48:26 +0000

I think your last paragraph contains a clue there; back when girls reading comics was a normal thing, being a comic reader didn’t necessarily make one a nerd.

by: Torsten Adair

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:07:27 +0000

Marvel’s female line lasted until the mid-1960s, and Millie lasted until the early 70s (as an Archie clone). Some of those characters are now part of the Marvel Universe (Patsy Walker).

And the ability to turn men’s heads and make them act stupid is a pretty cool superpower.

Wow… why doesn’t Marvel spin off a “Mary Jane” title, working for Millie’s modellng agency?

by: Jonathan

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:57:52 +0000

Back to the poll from earlier….I want more Millie the Model coverage. Yeah, I know not much is going on with her mag these days, but I want the mystery solved as to who the inspiration for Millie was!

– Jonathan

P.S. Mark Evanier ignored my email on the question, so help me Obi-Wan Heidi, you’re my only hope.

by: gene phillips

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:47:47 +0000

Not sure the 40s and 50s prove anything about 60s Marvel heroines. Timely didn’t have a huge number, but the ones they had were tuff cookies (Miss America, Silver Scorpion). Sixties Marvel heroines just *might* be wimpy ’cause an old-world duffer name o’Wertham wrote a little book that had a lot of problems with comic-book violence– one item being that strong women encouraged little girls to turn lesbian (or something like that).

by: Greg

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:08:23 +0000

Gay Willie Joker coming up in the rear.

I see what you did there.