Miss Fury Sensational Sundays 1944-1949 Hardback
by Tarpe Mills
Hardback
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Catfights and crossdressers, mad scientists and Gestapo agents withswastikas branding irons - it's one lurid and exciting adventure afteranother in this lavish, full-color collection of the first female superhero tobe created and drawn by a woman.
Miss Fury was a sexy adventurer clad in askin-tight panther costume.
By day, she was socialite Marla Drake. By night... Miss Fury!In the first half of the 20th century, women cartoonists could be found inAmerica's newspapers, but Tarpe Mills was one of the few who drewadventure comics, and the only one who drew a costumed superheroine.
The MissFury Sunday newspaper strip ran from 1941 until 1952 and had millions ofreaders, among them GIs who painted the beautiful action heroine on thenosecones of their bombers.
Eisner- and Harvey-nominated writer and historian Trina Robbins has chosenthe best Miss Fury stories for this oversized collection, which alsofeatures a biographical essay about Tarpe Mills that places her withinthe history of women cartoonists, and includes pages from an unpublished andunfinished Miss Fury graphic novel by Mills from 1979.
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Idea & Design Works
- Publication Date:05/07/2011
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- ISBN:9781600109058
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Idea & Design Works
- Publication Date:05/07/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781600109058
