June Tarpe Mills

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June Tarpé Mills (born February 25, 1918 in Brooklyn , New York City , † December 12, 1988 there ) was an American comic book author. She worked under the name Tarpé Mills and was one of the first better-known female comic artists . Mills received the most attention for her comic strip Miss Fury , first known as Black Fury ; it featured the first female superhero created by a woman.

biography

Mills was born on February 25, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, under the name June Tarpé Mills. She used her middle name "Tarpé" to hide her gender, believing that readers of her comic strips would be disappointed if they found out she was a woman. Other of their pseudonyms were Edgar Allen Jr. and Nella .

During her studies she worked as a model to support her family financially.

She attended Erasmus Hall High School and then the Pratt Institute private university in New York.

Mills' professional career began as a fashion illustrator. She designed some comic book characters like Devil's Dust , The Cat Man , The Purple Zombie and Daredevil Barry Fin before inventing her character Miss Fury in 1941 . Prior to Miss Furry, she worked on other comics such as Funny Pages, Star Comics, Amazing Mystery Funnies, Amazing Man Comics, Masked Marvel, Prize Comics Target Comics, and Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics.

The Miss Fury comic strip ran until 1952 when Mills retired. In 1971 she briefly returned for Our Love Story at Marvel Comics and in 1979 for a graphic novel , which was not completed.

She died on December 12, 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, and was buried in Forest Green Park Cemetery in Morganville, New Jersey .

June Tarpé Mills was inducted into the ComicCon Eisner Hall of Fame on July 19, 2019.

Miss Fury

On April 8, 1941, the Bell Syndicate published the comic strip The Black Fury , later known as Miss Fury , six months before Wonder Woman was first published. The comic strip was published in the Sunday comic pages for 351 consecutive weeks, from 1942 to 1949. The comic strip was later published as a book by Timely Comics . As the Miss Fury comic strip became better known, it gradually became public that a woman was behind the idea of ​​Miss Fury because the readers of the comic strip wanted to know more about the author , or in this case, the author .

Miss Fury , the alter ego of Marla Drake, a social lady, is loosely inspired by Mill's looks.

Miss Fury was painted on the nose of three American war planes in Europe and the South Pacific during World War II . Two of Miss Fury's enemies who kept returning were Nazi agents Erica Von Kampf and General Bruno. Mill's own white house cat , a Persian cat named Perri-Purr, featured on the comic strip and became an unofficial mascot for American troops during World War II .

dress

Mill paid much attention to Miss Fury's wardrobe ; in general, she made her drawings in a rather glamorous style. Miss Fury's outfits varied widely; sometimes she wore evening dresses, sometimes lingerie , swimwear or sportswear. Mill inspired other writers with Fury's clothing style, such as Dalia Messick on her comic strip Brenda Starr . The two comic book authors were ahead of their time because the wardrobe of their heroines stood out from everyday clothes.

Mills also "cutout paper dolls" (made paper dress-up dolls ) on, but they were only in the reprinting of Timely Comics provided. She also used it to reply to fan mail from girls or young women asking for a drawing of her. The cut-outs led Trina Robbins to believe that the reprints were aimed more at readers than at readers.

censorship

The character Miss Fury was known for "kinkiness" (perversion), which meant whips, "spike heels" (pencil heels), "female-on-female violence" (violence among women) and underwear scenes. One of the 1947 costumes was so daring that 37 magazines canceled the comic strip's scheduled publication that day. A bathing scene in Miss Fury's tenth comic strip from June 8, 1941, appeared in magazines, but was not included in the reprint of almost all of the comic strips published by Timely Comics in 1942.

style

June Tarpé Mills' drawing style was influenced by the work and style of Milton Caniff . How Mills depicted the plot of the comic strips over several images and the natural poses and facial expressions of their characters was described as "cinematic" in the film noir style. Mills' portrayals of women had a certain pin-up character. Dean Mullaney, editor and publisher of Eclipse Enterprises, assessed Mills' style as "very traditionally drawn, without surprises, without aha moments".

Evie Nagy of The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote of Mills' work that the flow of her frequency art felt completely organic.

legacy

Mills' legacy as the first woman to create a comic book action heroine contextualized Victoria Ingalls for the American Psychological Association . Out of a list of hundreds of female superheroes, Ingalls identified only eleven created by female writers who did not collaborate with male writers. In the chronological order, Mills' character Marla Drake was the first of the eleven superheroes.

For Mike Madrid in his book The Supergirls , Marla Drake belongs to the group of “debutantes” of early comic book heroines, who also includes Sandra Knight (Phantom Lady), Diana Adams (Miss Masque), Dianne Grauton (Spider Widow) and Brenda Banks (Lady Luck ) belong. They form a kind of ladies' union of heirs and ladies of better society who were expected to lead a life of decency, correctness, subservience and boring occupation. Putting on a cloak and mask freed them and enabled them to adopt their own identity, fight crime, and trade boredom for thrills. Mills' approach to a secret identity appeared to be more realistic and with a feminine practicality, according to Madrid.

Nominations and honors

The reprint of comic strips under the title Miss Fury: Sensational Sunday 1941–1944 was nominated in 2012 for the Eisner Award , also known as the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.

Mills was among the 16 nominations for Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2018 , including Rumiko Takashi, Karen Berger, Dave Gibbons , Jackie Ort, and Charles Addams . She was inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame on July 19, 2019 at Comic-Con International in San Diego .

bibliography

  • Funny Pages (1936)
    • "Diana Deane in" White Goddess "" vol. 3, # 8
    • "The Third Episode of Diana Deane in" White Goddess "" vol. 3, # 9
    • "White Goddess" vol. 4, # 1
  • Star Comics (1939)
    • "Diana Deane in Hollywood" vol. 2, # 5 and # 7
    • Phantom Rider # 18
    • It takes heavy artillery to win a water pistol fight! # 23
  • Amazing Mystery Funnies (1939)
    • Daredevil Barry Finn vol. 2, # 4-5, # 9, # 11-12, and vol. 3 # 1
  • Amazing Man Comics (1939)
    • "The Coming of Cat-Man" # 5
    • "The Ivy Menace" # 6
    • "The Return of the Cat Man" # 8
  • Masked Marvel (1940)
    • "The Vampire" # 2
  • Prize Comics (1940)
    • "Birth of a Barnstormer" vol. 1, # 1
    • "The Rescue of Lt. Andre" vol. 1, # 1
    • "The Diamond Smuggler" vol. 1, # 2
    • "The Lost City of Tsol" vol. 1, # 2
    • "Murder of a Mail Pilot" vol. 1, # 3
    • "Marco Hawk's Big Score" vol. 1, # 3
    • "Mamba Island" vol. 1, # 4
    • "The Witch Doctor's Waterloo" vol. 1, # 5
    • "The Search For Kalobi" vol. 1, # 6
  • Target Comics (1940)
    • "The Maskless Axeman" vol. 1, # 1
    • "Ninety Seconds For No. 91" vol. 1, # 2
    • "Devil's Dust" vol. 1, # 2
    • "Dance of Death" vol. 1, # 3
    • "The Music Monster" vol. 1, # 4
    • "Ezekiel's Ark" vol. 1, # 5
    • "The Blue Zombie" vol. 1, # 6
    • "Boomerang" vol. 1, # 9 and # 11
    • "Sword of Destiny" vol. 1, # 10
    • "Satan's Colors" vol. 1, # 12
    • "The Three Mutineers" vol. 2 # 1
  • Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (1940-1942)
    • Issues 1–4 and 7–12
  • Miss Fury (1941-1952)
  • Our Love Story (1969)
    • "Model With a Broken Heart" # 14
  • Unpublished and unfinished Miss Fury graphic novel (1979)

Posthumously

  • Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1941-1944 (2013)
  • CBLDF Presents: She Changed Comics (2016)
  • Men of Mystery Comics # 104 (2017)
  • Prize Comics (2017)

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Mills, June Tarpe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mills, Tarpé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book author
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1988
Place of death Brooklyn , New York City