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| Image copyright MARVEL COMICS |
There's certainly a lot going on in this cover, but note how
ineffectual (as usual) MARVEL GIRL is, merely levitating in
the background. She's about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
JACK KIRBY often had difficulty portraying female characters
as anything other than glamorous-but-helpless dressing on the
covers he drew, but JEAN GREY's power (telekenesis) didn't
really lend itself to dramatic visual interpretation. The FF's
SUE STORM didn't fare much better, alas, but then again,
invisibility is another difficult one to do anything with.
At least the gals were there to make tea and sandwiches,
and iron the costumes after the guys had done all the heavy-
lifting in the fighting department, so their presence wasn't en-
tirely redundant. And it's always nice to have a pretty face
around, isn't it? (That should p*ss off the feminists.)
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