CGS Presents: Comics With or Without Pulp 10: Miss Fury

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🗓️ 31 July 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Episode 10: 'Hell Hath No Fury'. A look at a Femme Fatale from the age of pulp characters. Created by one of the first female creators; Tarpe Mills. Guest co-host Eric Nolen-Weathington helps discuss a hero with fashion sense. (1:20:57)

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0:00.0	Comic Geekspeak Presents Comics With or Without Pulp. Episode 10, Hell Hath No Fury.
0:27.2	And welcome to the episode. I'm Matt, along with my guest co-host for the day, Eric Nolan Wehington. And we'll be taking a look at Miss Fury. Beforehand, just as always, this episode is brought to you by Atlas Press,
1:01.6	which has over 100 titles in stock covering all the popular heroes like Doc Savage, Secret Agent X, The Black Bat, The Green Ghost, The Phantom Detective, The Green Lama, and many more. And they have books by classic pulp authors like Lester Dent, Ted Tinsley, Frederick Nebel, Raul Whitfield, Frederick C. Davis, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1:14.8	Atlas Press is the home of the all-new Wild Adventures of Doc Savage, latest of which entitled Skull Island, which teams up Doc with king kong atlas press stocks soft covers hardcover and ebooks so head over to wwww dot atlaspress dot com all right miss fury first all right how you doing tonight or today all right how about you i'm hanging All right, Miss Fury.
1:28.7	First of all, how are you doing tonight?
1:30.6	Doing all right. How about you?
1:32.0	I'm hanging in there.
1:35.5	Seems like forever since I did the last one,
1:37.6	because I think it has been forever since I did the last one.
1:38.7	What, about nine months now?
1:41.7	I think so about that.
1:45.1	I know ideally I was looking for this to be kind of closer to Valentine's Day.
1:49.5	We're doing Miss Fury, but sometimes life gets in the way.
1:51.9	I understand that all too well.
1:57.4	I guess just could start off with who is Miss Fury.
2:05.2	She debuted initially as the Black Fury on April 6th, 1941. She was a Sunday strip,
2:11.9	excuse me, it was in a Sunday strip by Bell Syndicate and created by artist Tarpe Mills,
2:19.5	who's actually June Tarpe Mills. Her alter ego is Marla Drake, a wealthy socialite who wore a skin-tight cats suit. She had no powers, but supposedly the cat suit actually gave her some type of
2:25.4	special abilities. The initial strip ran until 1952.
2:35.5	There's actually been a couple versions of Miss Fury.
2:39.6	It seemed a little touching.
2:42.3	One of the things I found about this character,
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