When Patsy Walker gained the costume and powers of Hellcat in Avengers #144, the character was not, pardon the expression, made from whole cloth. In fact, writer Steve Englehart had rescued her from cancellation and obscurity by bringing her into the superhero comics of the day as a friend to his newly-transformed Hank McCoy, a.k.a. the Beast, created from X-Men comics. Patsy was the stand-alone survivor now of what was once the biggest comics genre of its day, a day when women readers, female adults, no less, were the surprising core of comics readership in America. From the site, "A very brief history of romance comics": For the first and last time, adult women were major consumers of comics. (A)lthough the genre is largely dismissed by comics aficionados today, it was created by two of the most revered artists and writers of the time: Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, who kicked off Young Romance in 1947. Kirby and Simon had created Captain America in the early '40s, and Ki...

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I think Sif the Goddess of War is an idea I should develop on my own. How can you not, after seeing Marvel's great version in THOR? The Norse gods are public domain, thankfully. Why should Thor have all the fun? I'd write Sif gladly! She was Harvest goddess. I think, Marvel aside, I will consider the character I called Valkyrie Maiden and remove the valkyrie trappings, which require the story to always be tied to death and crossing over, and consider, "what if Frieda Dylan Reeves becomes (is an incarnation of) Sif?" What would her mythological hubbie Thor think about this life, these transformations? Is Sunstrike an incarnation of Thor/ Horus, then? Is that why the powers worked for him, why he got recruited to be Sunstrike by the Luxitican people! SEe, that's stuff from my own Portal Immortal. Those characters still aren't on any list but my own! But behind the scenes, they keep getting new pieces, making more sense... It takes time, though. So...