Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics
ISBN-13:
9781935259237
ISBN-10:
1935259237
Author:
Mike Madrid
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Exterminating Angel Press
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781935259237
ISBN-10:
1935259237
Author:
Mike Madrid
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Exterminating Angel Press
Format:
Paperback
240 pages
Summary
Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics (ISBN-13: 9781935259237 and ISBN-10: 1935259237), written by authors
Mike Madrid, was published by Exterminating Angel Press in 2013.
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ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the Year
BUST Magazine Lit Pick” Recommendation
Certified Cool™ in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop’s Catalog
Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These lost’ heroines are now foundto the delight of comic book lovers everywhere.” STAN LEE
Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds.
Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid’s insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary womensuperheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilotswho protected America and the world with wit and guile.
In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we’re passionate about today, is unmistakable.
Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR Best Book To Share With Your Friends” and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.
BUST Magazine Lit Pick” Recommendation
Certified Cool™ in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop’s Catalog
Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These lost’ heroines are now foundto the delight of comic book lovers everywhere.” STAN LEE
Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s, but many other heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds.
Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid’s insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary womensuperheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilotswho protected America and the world with wit and guile.
In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we’re passionate about today, is unmistakable.
Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics and The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR Best Book To Share With Your Friends” and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.
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