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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 13, 2019 10:56:19 GMT -5
Miss America is definitely the most widely known. Why the media is always talking about Miss America; they even have a big televised ceremony, every year, to honor her.
Not quite sure what the swimsuits have to do with it; but, whatever.....
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 13, 2019 10:58:37 GMT -5
I just want to mention that this discussion is an example of something that's always bugged me about the way people talk about comic books, namely that a character has "made it" when people know them from something besides comic books. That's what annoyed me about that PBS documentary about comics, that Steranko and Joe Simon were involved in. Everything was through the lens of "other media." They really only focused on characters who were seen in movies, tv, cartoons, serials or radio, rather than some of the more significant characters that didn't have film footage that could be shown. The only reason the Blue Beetle got a mention was because of the brief radio show. |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 13, 2019 16:31:56 GMT -5
... Thanks for the correction! I read that thread but had forgotten that detail. It sounds like those Wasp stories are the first solo superheroine stories of the Marvel Age. There was a Marvel Girl backup story in X-Men a few years later; I think that was the next one. Then Black Widow finally gets on a cover in 1970. Since you mentioned that 1969 Marvel Girl story (a 5-page feature detailing her powers), I'll add the solo Medusa story that was the lead story in Marvel Super-Heroes #15 on sale in April 1968. According to various sources such as Mark Evanier's intro in the Inhumans Masterworks vol. 1, Marvel wanted to have a female superhero headliner, perhaps as a solo book or sharing a split book, and Medusa was chosen (according to Evanier, the Black Widow was also considered). The idea was that sometimes Medusa would appear with the other Inhumans, but she'd also have solo adventures. Then Marvel had second thoughts, so the Medusa story was put into MSH instead. However the big push that was scheduled for her promoting her as a solo act proceeded, so in addition to MSH #15 she appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #62 in that same month, April 1968. Though the Inhumans had had a short-lived back-up feature in Thor for a while in 1967-8, it was mostly about their background and also Triton's adventures (guess he was being tried out as a potential solo adventurer too). A couple of years later in 1970 Medusa and the other Inhumans got their own dedicated feature, sharing Amazing Adventures with the aforementioned Black Widow (who was solo, and who had similarly appeared in a "pre-launch" Spidey story, ASM #86...a sort of a rite of passage). Anyway, in the AA Inhuman series Medusa was just one of the gang and didn't stand out or receive extra camera time. ETA: I see Reptisaurus! mentioned the Medusa story earlier today. Sorry, I didn't see that before I posted this! |
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