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Brenda Starr is a name that evokes much nostalgia for me. Dale Messick, the creator of the comic strip died not long ago at age 98. She told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview “Most comics, the main characters are heroes, guys, and they don’t write for women. I was a woman so I was writing for women and I think that’s what put her over.” But despite my being a boy devoted to heroes like Superman and playing cowboy with cap pistols and BB gun pretending to be the Lone Ranger or Red Ryder like any normal boy and I considered girls alien creatures, fascinating but suspect at best, when the strip began to appear in 1940 I was an avid fan from the very first. During WW II Brenda as with many cartoon and comic strip characters of the time was fully involved in the effort against the Axis Powers, and she proved to be as adventurous, brave and courageous as any man. While Wonder Woman was also doing her part in like manner with her marvelous invisible...
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