Take a look at this cover.
At first glance, a variation on the
Starship Troopers theme of armored infantry.
Note that two of the three soliders are
also wearing helmets.
The third one isn't, presumably because she's the protagonist, and we
have to see her face to identify her.
It's not the
brightest move to go into combat without protection to your head; but, again, there is "marketing logic" to doing so.
Now take a look at the "alternate" cover...
1) She's looking in
one direction and firing in
another (hopefully not hitting one of her comrades in the process).
2) She's shooting
left-handed. The other cover shows her as
right-handed. Is she ambidextrous?
3) Where's her helmet? There are
no other characters present, so just having her name on her chestplate should cover identifying her character!
4) Slight problem with my solution to #3--she doesn't
have a chestplate! What sort of idiots armor every square inch of a body
except the head and chest?
Hormonally-driven idiots who want to see a buxom woman's cleavage--even if it gets her killed!
Curiously, on the inside of the book, her armor comes all the way up to her chin,
and she has a helmet, which she wears when facing the enemy!
It's sloppy cover art direction, it's misleading,
and it's gratutitous.
This is
exactly the sort of prurient-interest image an up-and-coming Wertham would use to start another Seduction of the Innocent crusade!
Don't the creators believe that their story and characters are good enough to attract the target audience without resorting to this sort of bullsh!t?
And, the
real killer is that this is a relatively-
mild example of this sort of thing!
...
and The Thing
, the Werti-whiners make NO mention of the oft-times mindlessly-destructive Hulk
, or the often out-of-control Wolverine
, both included in the collection!
, nor the hero whose very existence shows that "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility!", Spider-Man
! nor the original pacifist hero, The Silver Surfer
is familiar to anyone who has seen Flash Gordon
films, but with a generally campy, sexual flavor, to it.
in the late 1980s. It's nowhere near as good (or funny)!
, including spaceships with sparklers in their rears and (deliberately) crudely animated laser blasts! 
, Star Wars
, and BattleStar Galactica
!
!
One of the most famous (or notorious) Golden Age comic characters, Phantom Lady was also one of the first costumed superheroines, predating Wonder Woman (who debuted in All-Star Comics #8) in 1941 by several months!
Believing both the "naughty" and "nice" versions of the character have a place in pop culture history (and your collections), Atomic Kommie Comics™ has included the classic superheroine in not one, but two different sections of our store!
She's also featured on both our Heroines and Good Girl / Bad Grrrl 2010 12-Month Calendars as well as her own Phantom Lady 2010 12-Month Calendar with a dozen of her best Golden AND Silver Age covers!
Take a look at this cover.
1) She's looking in one direction and firing in another (hopefully not hitting one of her comrades in the process).
It's sloppy cover art direction, it's misleading, and it's gratutitous.
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