For
some reason there appeared to be penchant for Golden Age heroines to
be associated with spiders. Timely had the Black Widow ( a character
name that was recycled in the Silver Age) and Fox had the Spider
Queen. Today’s post will deal with two more.
Harry
A. Chesler’s Dynamic Comics was a relatively small publishing
concern, putting out less than 14 ongoing titles in the entire course
of the 1940’s. Yet within this small number magazines, Chesler
managed no fewer than six different costumed heroines! Admittedly,
few of these had more than single appearance but still it was a
remarkable ratio of gals to guys Probably the most bizarre of the
bunch appeared in 1944 in the debut issue of MAJOR VICTORY COMICS. A
native of the Ozarks, Helen Goddard puts on a weird costume to
frighten and subdue a band of crooks as… Spider Woman!
At
Quality they briefly ran a strip called the Spider Widow in the pages
of FEATURE COMICS. I must confess that I find the artwork
particularly lovely and stylish. I’ll also note that the Japanese
characters are drawn far more naturally than the majority of comics
found in those days. This is her sophomore tale from FEATURE COMICS
issue 58 from June 1942.
Pat
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