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It's interesting how much attention that feature of her costume gets... but she actually shows significantly less skin than most female supers - her arms, shoulders, neck and back are covered. Basically it's just the thighs and some of her chest. It shows no more actual cleavage than (for example) Wonder Woman's,  Poison Ivy's or Black Canary's costumes.

 

Heck, a lot of male supers are much less dressed.

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Heck, a lot of male supers are much less dressed.

 

True. Namor is one of the more extreme cases.

 

There is, however, the "male gaze" phenomenon, where Namor tends not to be sexualized in the same way as more dressed female characters.

 

Doing this, of course, would tacitly acknowledge that the character was not just being read by women, but by gay men.

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True the boob window is rather unique. The invisible woman had one during one of her evil phases, but it didn't last long. They had a funny scene where a group of women were complaining to her about how her new costume was too risqué, so she turned all their clothes invisible.

 

Course her most risqué outfit was the Malice costume.

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Byrne is pretty much responsible for She-Hulk's ongoing popularity. Before he popped her into the FF she was basically just someone who ran with the Avengers because her own book had been cancelled. Then he did Sensational She-Hulk, which was the 4th wall bending comic Hyper-Man is thinking of (not much 4th wall breaking in FF).

 

Also an Ambush Bug fan here, HM! :)

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