Re-posting this because I finally got to scan it in high-res.
Betty Bates is a goddamn hero.
—“Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law” in Hit Comics #47 (1947)
I… gotta admit, I was waiting for the story to turn on her and make her out to be unreasonable, but damn.
It would be interesting to discover the history of this. Anyone care to wager it was quashed by some macho editor?
Shockingly…. no. I looked it up, and apparently she had her own title for like a decade, and got lost in the shuffle when DC bought Quality comics so they could get Plastic Man.
Apparently, she was also a consistent badass.
…and may have been played by a time travelling Drew Barrymore.
I am going to have to look up her creator– Bob Powell, also responsible for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle– because Damn, this is not something I would expect to see from the Golden Age.
Apparently she’s public domain now, so if any of y’all want to write a revival series of her, you can!