I came across these comics in a book of SUPERMAN daily newspaper strips from 1939. As you can see, there’s a lot going on here.
WAT
worth clicking on the full-size version for easier reading.
Whoa there Superman…
Yeah how she like it now that we’re a real adult
This is hilarious and horrifying. I shall never complain about depictions of women in today’s comics again (or until I...
Women are so complicated (funny that a girl is sayin this)
It would be funny to see this republished in a newspaper today just for the reactions.
Alpha as fuck. Ah, the casual sexism of the 1930s.
Superman was all about spanking (and misogyny . There’s like,
woah
Omg. Wtf.
What the hell did I just read….