Show me Cool Female Characters of the Golden Age!

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Venus was pretty much romantic sci-fi at the start and evolved into the purer sci-fi and then horror. I don't have all the issues but they did maintain some consistency in the storytelling.

#3 has more of the humor elements

while #6 starts looking more like sci-fi

Some other great female characters from the Marvel stable were Hedy De Vine and Annie Oakley.

Millie, Hedy, and Tessie filled several of Marvel's humor anthologies in the 1940's.

Tessie didn't survive too long into the 1950's. Millie continued with Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo to compete against Archie, and Hedy adopted more of an Archie style as well but only survived a bit longer, ending in the early 1950's.

Posted these in another thread awhile back but they seem relevant here so..

Um, anyone out there know of a Bill Everett story featuring a female vampire?

Neither Michael nor I can figure it out. Anyway, here is the next best thing! My kind of woman!

I knew I had read such a story recently, but it was a Matt Fox piece; but what a piece of work it is!

Thanks for the great page scans, guys!

Man, it is hard to resist going after the Venus run. Just a fantastic series that seems to have everything.

Posted these in another thread awhile back but they seem relevant here so..

 

 

 

 

 

 

The more I see of Werner Roth's work, the more I enjoy it. It's really too bad he got shoe-horned into the Marvel house style of the 60's. His pre-code work is lush.

Thanks for sharing all of these splashes.

Here's another Miss Masque.

Her short red skirt makes her my hero.

Here's another Miss Masque.

 

Her short red skirt makes her my hero.

 

I like Miss Masque (thumbs u They should have used this cover for her first appearance in Exciting #51, IMHO

yes I'm double-posting this in what makes a masterpiece, but belongs here too- Jirel of Joiry 10/34

Here's another Miss Masque.

 

Her short red skirt makes her my hero.

 

 

I like Miss Masque (thumbs u They should have used this cover for her first appearance in Exciting #51, IMHO

Both covers are similar. Both have giant figures (Black Terror Miss Masque) hovering over running criminals.

Not a comic but hey,it's a Schomburg cover

Not sure where to put these, so I'll give this thread another nudge. These airbrush Startlings are way tough on a budget, so I was very happy to pick up these two in the last month or so. The #47 has minor moisture damage, but displays great and was an absolute steal on ebay. The #50 was a purchase from Harley, & delighted to have nabbed one...just love the colors on this cover.

Nice. One day ...

Nice books PointFive.

Startling Comics 50, the cover that made me love Schomburg's work. That was my desktop for well over a year. Staring at it day in, day out...

There's a beautiful volume to her upper body. It has weight. She's alive. And the green earth, if it's blue it doesn't work. It's a great cover.

Felt that it was worth mentioning the various non-superpowered heroines that aren’t as famous as Lois Lane:

Patty O’Day (Wonderworld Comics #9, January 1940):

Penny Wright (Champion Comics #4, February 1940):

Page Parks (Blue Bolt #1, June 1940):

Sally O’Neil (National Comics #1, July 1940):

Jane Martin (Wings Comics #1, September 1940):

Betty Bates (Hit Comics #5, November 1940):

Fran Frazer (Top Notch Comics #13, March 1941):

Penny Parker (Blue Ribbon Comics #13, June 1941):

Peg Miller (U.S. Jones #1, November 1941):

Blonde Bomber (Green Hornet Comics #7, June 1942):

Glory Forbes (Rangers Comics #14, December 1943):

Joan Mason (Blue Beetle #32, July 1944):

Jill Trent (Fighting Yank #9, August 1944):

Spitfire Sanders (Spitfire Comics #132, August 1944):

Gail Porter (Blue Circle Comics #3, September 1944):

Betty Boyd (All Good Comics, November 1944):

Dolly O’Dare (Scoop Comics #8, 1944):

Molly O’Moore (Cat-Man Comics #27, April 1945):

Linda Lens (Camera Comics #6, Fall 1945):

Cairo Jones (Miss Cairo Jones #1, 1945):

Toni Gayle (Young King Cole #4, Summer 1946):

Front Page Peggy (Startling Comics #41, September 1946):

Lucky Dale (The Saint #1, August 1947):

Gail Ford (Crime Smashers #1, October 1950):

Sally the Sleuth (Crime Smashers #1, October 1950):