LC control no. | sh2012002274 |
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Topical heading | Women superheroes |
Variant(s) | Comic book heroines Super heroines Superheroines Women super heroes |
See also | Superheroes |
Found in | Work cat.: Spider-woman, April 1978. Wikipedia, viewed 5/30/2012 (a female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine. The first known female superhero is writer-artist Fletcher Hanks' minor character Fantomah, an ageless, ancient Egyptian woman in the modern day who could transform into a skull-faced creature with superpowers to fight evil; she debuted in Fiction House's Jungle Comics #2 (cover-dated Feb. 1940), credited to the pseudonymous "Barclay Flagg".) OED online, viewed 5/30/2012 (super-heroine n.) |