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
Butt gets knocked on his mutt-- or something.
Mable, Mable, sweet and able.
TV's MY LITTLE MARGIE was more violent than any other fifties sitcom. But though occasionally precocious daughter Margie occasionally punched someone, or hit someone with a blunt object, the show didn't go to the lengths of the comic book.
The splash page to this MARGIE tale is merely symbolic.
Then we get Cindy putting on merely symbolic muscle...
After which it's time to ring the bell for the real thing.
Then we have domestic games. All the preceding from CINDY COMICS, and these from KRAZY KOMICS.
In "Out on a Limb" (1948) , two Timely twerps, CINDY and GOLDIE, tackle a guy thinking he's a famous celebrity and end up sandbagging their principal.
The first tier of this 1949 LI'L ABNER Sunday strip is in one sense more remarkable than the FEARLESS FOSDICK story it leads into. While I've yet to read all of the strips from the strip's forty-year history, most of those I've read show Abner's true love Daisy Mae Scragg as a "shrinking violet" femme, who could not defend herself to save her life. This was in contrast to the many tough women in Al Capp's Abnerverse. So it's a real eyebrow-raiser when Capp does a gag in which Daisy cries out for help when assaulted, and when Abner pays no attention because he's reading the FOSDICK "comical strip," she simply punches out the big goon herself.
Given how few hillbilly girls show up here, I might as well add Clara Belle of POKEY OAKLEY here.
Nylon Hose shows some Spirit.
Teen protagonist Hitoshi usually gets lumps from his A.I. harem, but he also gets a few from a Real Girl.
I've posted once or twice about the female lead of goofy manga GIRLS SAURUS, but she had a couple of loony sisters who gave the hero a "rough trade" time.
In a separate adventure Chiryuu tries to avoid one of the young girls coming on to him, and he crashes into the invulnerable boobs of Fusou, mature schoolteacher and "sadist" (according to what she says about herself above). I'm not sure a guy hurting himself on a woman's phenomenally hard boobs counts as violence on the part of the female-- I guess one might call it "passive resistance?" The fact that Fusou doesn't even notice Chiryuu crashing into her suggests a deflected "limp dick" joke, but it's not a certain-sure thing.