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Women superheroes

LC control no.sh2012002274
Topical headingWomen superheroes
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Variant(s)Comic book heroines
Super heroines
Superheroines
Women super heroes
See alsoSuperheroes
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Found inWork 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.)