BACK IN BLACK
The SUPERGIRLS
1970’s: SIRENS &
SUFFRAGETTES
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Big Blonde: Power Girl as the ultimate 70’s liberated heroine-angry, independent, and powerful. Below, telling her cousin, the original Superman, to shove it. Below left, Power Girl expresses herself to sexist hero Wildcat.
Red Menace: The confident and commanding Red Sonja as she initially appeared in 1973, and at right, buxom and sporting an armored bikini in 1975.
Bitch Goddess: A new group of liberated heroines arose in the 70’s who displayed aggressive natures that often put them at odds with the world around them. Above, Mantis, and at right, Thundra.
The Cat Came Back: The Cat, left was an attempt to introduce a liberated superheroine, 1972. The character bombed, and she was reinvented as the much sexier, and much more popular, Tigra.
