In the first half of the 20th century, women cartoonists could be found in America’s newspapers, but Tarpé Mills was one of the few who drew adventure comics, and the only one who drew a costumed superheroine. The Miss Fury Sunday newspaper strip ran from 1941 until 1952 and had millions of readers, among them GIs who painted the beautiful action heroine on the nosecones of their bombers. Miss Fury was known as much for its sexy men as for its sexy women, and for the lurid stories featuring both!