The Supergirls: Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines (Revised and Updated)

Mike Madrid is doing God’s work… . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure. -ComicsAlliance

Sharp and lively … [Madrid] clearly loves this stuff. And he’s enough of a historian to be able to trace the ways in which the portrayal of sirens and supergirls has echoed society’s ever-changing feelings about women and sex. -Entertainment Weekly

A long overdue tribute to [those] fabulous fighting females. -Stan Lee

Mike Madrid has become known as a champion of women in comics and as the expert in Golden Age female characters. And now here is where it all began, as informative and entertaining as ever, in a revised and updated edition, including new illustrations and a new introduction, as well as an afterword bringing us up-to-date on what’s happening with women in comics now.