Blonde Phantom Archives

Another series that survived Marvel's 1948-1950 romance boom and bust, Lovers provides us with a particularly stark reminder of the changing conditions that motivated publisher Martin Goodman to go all in on the genre.  With superheroes on the decline at the time, the series took over the number from the famous female superhero title Blonde[...]

The Blonde Phantom was one of Marvel's most popular female superheroes of the Golden Age.  The character debuted in All Select Comics #11, cover-dated Fall 1946, and that series was retitled Blonde Phantom Comics beginning with the next issue.  She made around 40 appearances across seven titles between late 1946 and early 1949, and had[...]