{"id":1630,"date":"2019-09-06T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2019-08-31T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:33:35","slug":"214-miss-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/214-miss-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"214 &#8211; Miss Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/miss-fury.png\" alt=\"The first comic book appearance of Miss Fury, Miss Fury #1, December 1942\" class=\"wp-image-1631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/miss-fury.png 858w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/miss-fury-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/miss-fury-768x680.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><figcaption>The first comic book appearance of Miss Fury, Miss Fury #1, December 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Fury newspaper strip reprints were collected into a comic book by Timely Comics (the company that became known as Marvel Comics) in December 1942.  At first black and white, full color stories started in Issue #2.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The character was known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Fury_(comics)\">Black Fury<\/a> in the context of the stories, and I imagine her skin-tight cat costume was pretty risque at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays, there is only one female character that walks around in a skin-tight cat costume: DC&#8217;s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catwoman\">Catwoman<\/a>.  But although that character was created first (1940), her look was completely different at that time.  Early 1941 brought the Angel&#8217;s villain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/151-catwoman-plus-black-widow-equals-the-cats-paw\/\">The Cat&#8217;s Paw<\/a>, while a few months later the Black Fury debuted in the newspaper strips supporting a very similar look.  It wasn&#8217;t until the 1960s Batman TV series that Catwoman started to use the look, and it wasn&#8217;t until the 1980s that it became canon in the comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Fury newspaper strip reprints were collected into a comic book by Timely Comics (the company that became known as Marvel Comics) in December 1942. At first black and white, full color stories started in Issue #2. The character was known as Black Fury in the context of the stories, and I imagine her skin-tight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,154,90,179],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-catwoman","tag-marvel","tag-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}