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To me, that cover's kind of odd, even by Golden Age standards.  Since Samson is clobbering Robot 1 with a morning star, my sympathy is naturally drawn to the robot.  Based on the scale of the train car and buildings, the combatants are kaiju-sized.  Based on the civilians falling out of the train, the supposed hero doesn't care if they plummet to their deaths!  Almost would've been better to let the robot abduct them (?).

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To me, that cover's kind of odd, even by Golden Age standards.  Since Samson is clobbering Robot 1 with a morning star, my sympathy is naturally drawn to the robot.  Based on the scale of the train car and buildings, the combatants are kaiju-sized.  Based on the civilians falling out of the train, the supposed hero doesn't care if they plummet to their deaths!  Almost would've been better to let the robot abduct them (?).

 

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You know your in a golden age comic book when there is a young girl in bondage on the cover, even if the scene is never depicted exactly that way inside the comic book itself. (You can replace 'young girl' with 'kid sidekick' if you want...).

Golden Age Wonder Woman was just thinly veiled bondage porn.

 

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Golden Age Wonder Woman was just thinly veiled bondage porn.

 

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I cannot agree with that.  Yes, there were elements of bondage in the Wonder Woman comic, and there were elements of non-traditional lifestyle in the life of William Moulton Marston.  But that does not mean there was not anything more to the comic, that there was not anything more to the life of Dr. Marston.  There are plenty of people, women and men, who have found great significance in the character, and have made her a part of their lives.  Many of them are featured in the PBS documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines--and if you were to say to them that their favorite hero was nothing more than "just thinly veiled bondage porn,"  I don't think they would take it well, and would be very cross with you.

 

More than that--you would be aligning yourself with every parent, every schoolteacher, every self-proclaimed "expert" who said comics were nothing but childish, pointless trash which was not worth the paper it was printed on, that they were only fit for delinquents and illiterates.  Is that what you want to say?   Do you want to be the sort of person who says such things?

 

Just saying.

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No one is doubting that the the Iron Age of comics has become a mature genera for mature readers, but I ALSO don't think anyone doubts that, due to the Comic Code Authority, the Silver Age was written to and for 10 year-old boys.  

 

That's what makes the Golden Age interesting - It's comics without the Comics Code Authority but NOT the Iron Age.

 

 

 

Also, and it's late and not really relevant to the thread topic, but when we speak of comics as myth in modern culture, Wonder Woman as an example of Feminine Power works only as an example of the FALSE IDEAL that is sold to women at large in the late 20th/early 21st century.  The lie is that Wonder Woman is simply Superman with breasts, and for a woman to be powerful she must abandon her last shred of femininity and become as masculine as possible, leading to the real life expression of this ideal in Hillary Clinton.  The ACTUAL example of Feminine Power, as depicted in the myth of the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone, is largely absent in modern culture post Gloria Steinem.  

 

In the myth of the the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone, it is shown that by willingly assuming the subservient role in a relationship, but maintaining personal power and integrity by being able to exit the relationship at any time, the submissive becomes the one who actually controls the interpersonal dynamics.  And that, while not being a common theme in late 20th/early 21st century at large, IS a common theme, well known and firmly held to, in the BD/SM community.

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Actually, if you want to see the myth of the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone played out in modern culture, rewatch the first season of The Sopranos.  

 

In The Sopranos you have the symbol of male power in Tony Soprano - Wealthy, influential, comfortable with violence, leader of a group of other powerful makes, all proficient practitioners of Magick (where the definition of Magick is "Making your will manifest on Earth").  But as powerful a warlock as Tony is, he is powerless when confronted by the three vessels of Feminine Power in the Matron, Tony's wife, the Maiden, Tony's girlfriend on the side, and the Crone, Tony's mother. Those three vessels of Feminine Power constantly leave Tony confounded, clueless as to why his masculine power, so effectual when dealing with politicians & criminals, is useless on the three of them.

 

To bring the discussion back to comics, I recommend the discourse on the history and fall of Feminine Power from the graphic novel From Hell by Allen Moore.

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