Great Dan DeCarlo Art On Issue 2
Of A Date With Millie From1957.
Scripts By Stan Lee.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Great art from DeCarlo and some decent scripts from Lee, especially the one-pagers. On the other hand, the essentially good-hearted but flighty & ditzy female leads are kind of dismissive. Later in the Marvel Age the Invisible Girl and the Wasp would also suffer from this and as to a lesser extent would Jane Foster in THOR. Kirby also shares the blame for that, though: Ditko's version of Betty Brant in SPIDER-MAN was much more level-headed. On the Archie comic side? Yes, Betty and Veronica could suffer from this characterization, but so could every single other character, male or female, especially male lead Archie.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting you say that because both Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were married to very strong women.
ReplyDeleteI think the Invisible Girl's ditziness was highlighted less and less after the first couple years of THE FANTASTIC FOUR and completely disappeared after she got engaged to Mr. Fantastic. She was then shown as being strong in the context of being protective of her family. As a married woman she received a more positive portrayal than she had as a single woman. In fact, being a wife and mother was what then defined her character to the point that for a while she even wanted her and Mr. Fantastic to quit the Fantastic Four to lead a normal life.
ReplyDeleteGranted that's just one character from Kirby's and Lee's respective careers. However, the Invisible Girl is the female character that either of them would spend the most time with so she may be somewhat indicative.