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Here Come The Girls

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June 2017

The Revenge of The fanTasy females! 

- Michael Coldwell

Here Come The Girls

With Wonder Woman spinning into cinemas for her first solo movie, STARBURST looks back at some of the most iconic and powerful ladies from comics, film, and TV…

Back in August 1980, STARBURST (then ‘A Marvel Monthly!’) published the first of our semilegendary Fantasy Females pictorial features. A celebration of our favourite female screen icons, it was very popular with readers of both genders but kicked off a debate on the letters page that veered between “is this really the sort of thing a serious-minded genre magazine should be lowering itself to?” and “can you do this every month please with even more Caroline Munro?” As Wonder Woman is lassoing her way back into our lives in the shape of Gal Gadot, it’s time to sharpen your pencils all over again, readers, as we take our life in our hands and find a new excuse to say hello to some of our all time favourite genre girls!

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