First we get two-on-two--
--Followed by two-on-one.
a DIACHRONIC study of the IMAGE of the POWERFUL FEMALE in POPULAR (and maybe other) CULTURES
I haven't read enough of Go Nagai's VIOLENCE JACK, but apparently the gigantic hero sometimes transformed into both (a) little kid avatar, and (b) a sexy babe avatar. Here's the sexy babe, whose name I do not know.
--as you jack off to the femmes of SMILIN JACK.
Here's CINDY THE INCENDIARY BLONE, who took part of her name from a 1945 Betty Hutton flick, INCENDIARY BLONDE.
I have no clue as to why, around 1973, Warren Publishing decides to issue a very loose adaptation of a scene from the 1968 Italian-made flick LUANA. All I can say is that writer Doug Moench and artist Esteban Maroto made Luana much more combative than the film does. There was also a 1974 paperback adaptation of the flick, which I have not read in a long time. Possibly the film got released to American theaters around that time.
Lady Fairplay, who had enhanced strength and speed, appeared in three issues of BANG UP COMICS, though only two were available to me for duping.
Starting with issue 160, the pages of WONDER WOMAN saw a big uptick in fighting-feats from DC's favorite Amazon.
As well as a few toughgirl villains, like "Countess Drashka Nishki."