BACK IN BLACK
The SUPERGIRLS
1970’s: SIRENS &
SUFFRAGETTES
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Biker Chick: Green Arrow tries to seduce Black Canary with his roguish charm.
Blonde Bombshell: Black Canary as she first appeared in the 1940’s, and reinvented as a tough 70’s street fighter.
Tough Cookie: Artist Jack Kirby based Big Barda’s looks on actress Lainie Kazan. Barda represented a new type of heroine for the 70’s-a gruff, powerful, no-nonsense female warrior.
Scarlet Fever: Left, the Scarlet Witch’s newfound strength was born out of years of repression.
Female Perversions: Big Barda’s bizarre, kinky quartet of killers, the Female Furies
Modern Romance: Black Canary resists Green Arrow’s romantic advances until she has found her own way in life.
Marital Woes: From left, Wasp tries on a sexy new costume in order to save her crumbling marriage, Invisible Girl’s desire for equality threatens her union with Mr. Fantastic.
The Price of Power ? : Was the liberated female warrior of the 70’s less of a woman because of the choices she’d made?
