Tarpe Mills | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Catfights and crossdressers, mad scientists and Gestapo agents with
swastikas branding irons - it's one lurid and exciting adventure after
another in this lavish, full-color collection of the first female superhero to
be created and drawn by a woman. Miss Fury was a sexy adventurer clad in a
skin-tight panther costume. By day, she was socialite Marla Drake. By night...
Miss Fury!
In the first half of the 20th century, women cartoonists could be found in
America's newspapers, but Tarpe Mills was one of the few who drew
adventure comics, and the only one who drew a costumed superheroine. The Miss
Fury Sunday newspaper strip ran from 1941 until 1952 and had millions of
readers, among them GIs who painted the beautiful action heroine on the
nosecones of their bombers.
Eisner- and Harvey-nominated writer and historian Trina Robbins has chosen
the best Miss Fury stories for this oversized collection, which also
features a biographical essay about Tarpe Mills that places her within
the history of women cartoonists, and includes pages from an unpublished and
unfinished Miss Fury graphic novel by Mills from 1979.