the character has been marketed as an all-American girl Not always, bub. The first WW comic I read in English was a Giant-Size from about 1976, where the sexual and BD overtones were so obvious that I felt angry and cheated. I had intended, you see, to buy a superhero comic, not a porn (if I wanted any, there were plenty in Italian and cheaper, and one did not have to cross the city to go to the few newsstands that had American comics). I remember that one of the artists was Steve Ditko, whom I was later to find had quite a record in that area. I later found out that DC was going overboard with all sorts of sexual overtones at the time - think of the Legion's bikini "uniforms" - but WW certainly afforded them more chance for it than most.
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Date: 2010-07-07 04:38 am (UTC)Not always, bub. The first WW comic I read in English was a Giant-Size from about 1976, where the sexual and BD overtones were so obvious that I felt angry and cheated. I had intended, you see, to buy a superhero comic, not a porn (if I wanted any, there were plenty in Italian and cheaper, and one did not have to cross the city to go to the few newsstands that had American comics). I remember that one of the artists was Steve Ditko, whom I was later to find had quite a record in that area. I later found out that DC was going overboard with all sorts of sexual overtones at the time - think of the Legion's bikini "uniforms" - but WW certainly afforded them more chance for it than most.