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Trevor Smith
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"Is there a reason no one has mentioned WONDER WOMAN?"
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You're right, weird omission. Perhaps a "so obvious no one
thinks to mention it" kind of thing?
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Tim O Neill
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | 2
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SHE-HULK has been in the news recently, for some reason or another...
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Dave Kopperman
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | 3
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Funny enough, many of my favorite comics from the 80s were female led, or at least had prominent female characters - though 'successful' doesn't really apply in many cases. Some of these were books my sister bought that I read (while she read my Firestorm, Star Wars, and X-Men).
Mars - Mark Wheatley/Marc Hempel Amethyst (original mini) - Mishkin/Cohn/Colon Dakota North (MAN was that one short lived, but I loved me some Tony Salmons) Cloak & Dagger/Vision & Scarlet Witch - Though both 'couple' books, the stories generally felt like Dagger and Scarlet Witch were the lead and Cloak/Vision the support She-Hulk (natch)
I'm sure there's more that will come to me, but additionally the X-Men and Star Wars issues that focused on the pretty deep bench of female characters (in the case of the former) and Leia (in the case of the latter) were always the ones I was happy to see on the stand on Wednesday. Dazzler had come and gone by the time I started reading seriously enough to become a comic store buyer, though I recall the Beauty & The Beast mini with her and Hank McCoy being pretty damn good and also having a strong female sensibility.
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Dave Kopperman
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I did also like the 80's Supergirl run at the time, though I watched a video retrospective on it recently and apparently didn't remember a goddamn thing about it, so I'm not sure what kind of staying power it had.
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | 5
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Then there's those "Little" girls; LULU, AUDREY, DOT
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Robbie Moubert
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | 6
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Minnie the Minx. Her strip in The Beano has been running since 1953 and she's the comic's third longest running character after Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.. She even has her own statue in Dundee (an honour she shares with The Dandy's Desperate Dan).
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Eric Russ
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | 7
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Thanks for the contributions, everyone.
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Eric Russ
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | 8
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Other leads that came to mind -
Torchy Brown and Patty-Jo N' Ginger by Jackie Ormes
Leave It To Chance by James Robinson and Paul Smith
Friday Foster by Jim Lawrence and Jorge Longaron
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Peter Martin
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Spider-Girl carried her own title for a long time.
Tank Girl had her own strip in Deadline for a number of years, had her own movie, and from the 2000s on has been the lead in various limited-series, one-shots, graphic novels and so on.
Psi-Judge Anderson, while more often than not playing second-fiddle to Judge Dredd, has sometimes carried her own books.
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Peter Martin
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(naturally my first reaction was Wonder Woman and it was weird to read through so many posts without any mention. I was thinking "What am I missing?")
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | 11
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I think Trevor got it right. No mystery, she was so obvious the topic title may as well read; BESIDES WONDER WOMAN...
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Joe Hollon
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| Posted: 19 August 2022 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | 12
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Doctor Aphra
Harley Quinn
Shi
Lady Death
Vampirella
Kabuki
Strangers in Paradise
Edited by Joe Hollon on 19 August 2022 at 9:00pm
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