Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #111
July 13th 2007 -
This was brought to my attention by one of our forum’s wonderful posters, but check out this Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed:
Reader Kate C. wrote in earlier this week with the following:
Either I read this somewhere or someone told me, I can’t remember exactly where I heard this - but supposedly at one point Marvel had a whole line of female superhero comics. Is that for real?
The answer may surprise some that it is, in fact, true. What is even more surprising is WHEN the line happened - in 1948!!
Trina Robbins has written an excellent but tragically out of print book on the subject called The Great Women Superheroes. It’s still available on Amazon, and hey…click the Amazon button on our homepage , and an angel gets its wings. Or cape. Book can be found here.