Vixens, Vamps & Vipers : Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics Paperback / softback
by Mike Madrid
Paperback / softback
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"Mike Madrid is doing God's work...mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure." -ComicsAlliance Between the covers of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comics-as fierce and full of surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born.
From murderous Madame Doom to He-She, dubbed by io9 as "the most unsung comic book villain ever," Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural stereotypes. Among the deadly femme fatales, ruthless jungle queens, devious secret agents, double-dealing criminal masterminds, and gender-bending con artists are some of the very first women of color in comics.
These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but-like their superheroine counterparts in Divas, Dames & Daredevils-their influence, on popular culture and the archenemies that thrill us today, is unmistakable. Mike Madrid is the author of Divas, Dames & Daredevils, a ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Book of the Year, and The Supergirls, an NPR "Best Book To Share With Your Friends" and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book.
A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women!
The Untold Story of American Superheroines.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Exterminating Angel Press
- Publication Date:23/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781935259275
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Exterminating Angel Press
- Publication Date:23/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781935259275
