Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Mille the Model (Marvel Comics)




Millie the Model was Marvel's longest running humor title, beginning in 1040. Millie, sometimes The Blonde Bombshell or Millie the Marvel was CEO of Millie's Models, a former actress, and former showgirl with Sherry's Showgirls. She is a talented model, actress and business executive. It was said that her beauty could drive any man to distraction. Wow, distraction. I wonder if she learned that in her high school and some college education.

Millie existed during the Golden Age of Comics (1930s-1940s) when women in comics were not often superheroines, but usually career gals, romance-story heroines, or perky teenagers. Career characters were cast into female dominated professions for the time: nurse, secretary, model, and teacher. Other "career women" include Tessie the Typist and Nellie the Nurse.

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