This wonderful issue of The Avengers introduced the "Lady Liberators", a one-shot gang of Marvel's most dangerous dames led by the Valkyrie (who was in fact the Enchantress in disguise).
(Marie Severin's early layout for this dynamic cover.)
It's one of my favorite comic books from one of my favorite runs in the series. The message of "Women's Liberation" is again front and center today as reactionary forces work diligently to claw back rights that women have enjoyed for decades.
(Parody of the cover by Bob Layton)
Strong women in the public square terrorize far too many Americans who had a chance to elevate a strong qualified woman to the highest office in the land and instead selected a raving maniac and useful idiot for the former Soviet Union. Shame.
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Women in comics have always been a mystery of immense proportions. Comic books have almost always been the singular playground for young boys and later young men. Girls were allowed to read romance comics when those got invented and the MLJ line stays alive even today with its Archie line up. But comics are famously about superheroes and superheroes are for boys. We all know that.
So, when dames show up in the four-colored pages they are either damsels in distress or dames of great danger. This month has featured the latter, those women who are just as inclined to stand on the throat of any malignant mope who might imagine she needed saving. (I won't say whose throat I image they might be standing on.) Enjoy these exceedingly dangerous dames
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So, when dames show up in the four-colored pages they are either damsels in distress or dames of great danger. This month has featured the latter, those women who are just as inclined to stand on the throat of any malignant mope who might imagine she needed saving. (I won't say whose throat I image they might be standing on.) Enjoy these exceedingly dangerous dames
Death to Male Chauvinism!
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