Okay, I really enjoyed Mike's Batman genre watch, but there's no sexual undertones in early comics -- just some pictures taken out of context. If you don't believe me, look how I can mislead you into thinking Wonder Woman was some kind of fetish super-heroine in her early days.
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hahaha I always think it's hilarious to go back and find perverted and sexual undertones in works where they wouldn't normally be in--like when someone pointed out a phallic symbol on the VHS cover of the Little Mermaid, etc. this was pretty hilarious though; I totally would have thought Wonder Woman had a type of bondage or S&M fetish just by looking at these pictures and by reading the dialogue a certain way. I'm just wondering how we're sure that these were wrongly interpreted by us instead of the intention of the author? I'm not familiar with comic books or anything so that's why I'm wondering.
Although I'm 99.9% sure you just made this post to show off some more funny comic cut-outs, I'll still say that I know there weren't sexual undertones in early comic books aimed at younger kids. Like you said, the fun comes when you take certain images completely out of context.
That being said, a great website to go for such hilarious out of context comics is
www.superdickery.com
I know you may want to think twice before typing that into your browser, but trust me it comes from the saying "Superman is a dick." The website started when the creator collected a bunch of clips of Superman being a major asshole and posted them online, but since then the site has grown to have hundreds, maybe thousands, of funny comics taken out of context in various galleries. It's become one of my favorite sites, and definitely worth checking out for a ton of laughs.
Mike, I used superdickery for many of my wonder woman images as well. It's a very funny site.
Tiffany -- I was actually being ironic. I don't think, in the case of wonder woman, that these images were "unintentional" and even if they were, that's besides the point (Think of our discussion about "intent" in relation to certain reoccurring motifs in Westerns). There is a non-stop bondage and spanking motif that runs through the first decade of WW. She lives on an island that forbids men, her super weapon is a magic lasso, etc.
Mike was right about Batman, but Wonder Woman is the one 40s mainstream comic that seems to have something more to it. I think it's worth an actual post.
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