[Delmo Walters Jr.]

I recently bought Mary Perkins:On Stage volume 1 by Leonard Starr. I came across the following sequence. This is from ’57/58…

[AlexG]

Thanks for posting this rare instance of comic strip fem-strength, Delmo! B)

I recall reading in a Buck Rogers comic strips collection book another such example from the 1940s. As a consequence of one of Dr. Huer’s war-time experiments going awry Wilma Deering was accidentally bulked up in size and augmented in strength.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Anthony Durrant]

Would that be the one in which Wilma was rendered invisible and Dr. Huer made her fat by accident while trying to restore her to normal? If I recall correctly, she lost the weight by helping Black Barney combine their two vessels into one.

[AlexG]

Glammazon wrote:

Would that be the one in which Wilma was rendered invisible and Dr. Huer made her fat by accident while trying to restore her to normal? If I recall correctly, she lost the weight by helping Black Barney combine their two vessels into one.

That sounds right. The storyline had a Rosie the Riveter element to it that Wilma could do the same amount of construction work as a man could. B)

I also recall an instance (40’s or 50’s storyline) where Dick Tracy got the crap beat out of him by a heavy-set strong woman criminal.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[peirrotlunaire]

was it Mrs. Pruneface?

http://www.4thletter.net/gavok/homework/prunedrown.jpg

they reprinted a bunch of Dick Tracy in the 90’s and she was issue one.

[AlexG]

No, it was the 1940 storyline w/ the criminals Jerome Trohs (a midget lawyer) and his largish girlfriend, Mamma.

BTW – Trohs is the backwards spelling for short.

Was reproduced in the 1970 book “Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy 1931-51”

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Another would be Barb Els, a circus strong-girl character that was featured in a 2009 Dick Tracy storyline.

And yes, she was featured with a femuscular physique. B)

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Paul Schilling]

Where’s Mammy Yoakim when you need her 😀

[AlexG]

Been posted before, but here’s one from the Luann strip – a She-Hulking out. B)

Link: Sunday’s (11/15) Luann Strip – Buff Luann

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[v walker]

I know this is very outdated but is there any possibility of finding these comic strips again?

oops…meant to post in this thread
http://amaz0ns.com/forum/Fandom–Nerd-Stuff/88106-Sundays-(1115)-Luann-Strip—Buff-Luann#88106

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