Word: supergirl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroines came late to the pages of the comics. Once there, they traced a colorful road, from Mamma of The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, to the flappers of the '20s and spunky private detectives, aviatrixes and reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe...
...years ago this morning, Frank Champi was a very normal red-blooded American boy form Everett, much like ourselves. Now he's legend, another Frank Merriweather, another Cap'n Crunch. What Linda Lee Danvers-Supergirl-did for Midvale, Frank has done for Everett, and for Harvard. Frank is gone now, but his spirit lingers on ("Spirit of America," Beach Boys, 1963), and when John Yovicsin sends his boys out on the field today it'll be with the instructions "Win this one for Frank...