"This Female Fights Back!"

[kore]

Fans React to Captain Marvel’s Radical Feminist Identity Politics – From 1977

This Bleeding Cool (yeah I know) listicle....thing (can't really call it an article) is a really interesting compilation from letters from the comic's letters column, "Ms Prints" (ho ho). Quite a lot of quotes from women, including women fans, women in comics and women who would go on to work in comics.

And a nugget from CBR:

In The Superhero Women (a 1977 Fireside Books collection of stories featuring female superheroes), Stan Lee spoke about the impetus for creating Ms. Marvel:

It bothered me for years that we didn't have one particular super heroine. Sure, we had Red Sonja, but I wanted a female superstar who would exist in the present, the real world. I kicked the idea around with Roy Thomas. We came up with the name Ms. Marvel, for two reasons: One, I wanted to use the word Marvel if possible simply because it's the name of our gregarious group of titles; and, two, it seemed the the word "Ms." totally represented the new, liberated, upbeat spirit that we wanted the strip to represent.

Comments

[chelseagirl]

Very interesting reading -- thanks for sharing!

[kore]

Stan Lee did really tend to put his money where his mouth was, even if in the sixties it was often in a kind of Greatest Generation white guy way. (I don't mean that sneeringly. He reminded me a lot of my dad in some of their viewpoints.)