Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age #[nn]

A richly assembled celebration of women in comics history, this volume by Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis — with a foreword by Trina Robbins — explores the characters, creators, and culture that shaped the Golden Age. The cover sets the tone beautifully: four women rendered in period comic-art style occupy a central medallion, while surrounding vignettes showcase a leopard-print jungle heroine brandishing a staff, a red-haired masked figure in a blue costume, a blonde adventurer amid a burst of action, and a blue-haired glamour character in red. It's a genuinely compelling invitation to dig into a corner of comics history that deserves exactly this kind of thoughtful, enthusiastic attention.