"ComicsAlliance" and "ComicsBlend" Best Comic Book of the
Year
"BUST Magazine" "Lit Pick" Recommendation
Certified Cool(TM) in "PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog"
"Mike Madrid gives these forgotten superheroines their due. These
'lost' heroines are now found--to 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
women--superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring
detectives, and ace fighter pilots--who 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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