num_pages: 240
description: Mike Madrid is doing Gods work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost heady land of female adventure.  ComicsAllianceBetween the covers of Vixens Vamps &amp; Vipers  fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comicsas fierce and full of surprises as they were when the comic book industry was born. From murderous Madame Doom to He-She dubbed by io9 as the most unsung comic book villain ever Mike Madrid resurrects twenty-two glorious evildoers in fully reproduced comics and explores the ways they both transcend and become ensnared in a web of cultural stereotypes.Among the deadly femme fatales ruthless jungle queens devious secret agents double-dealing criminal masterminds and gender-bending con artists are some of the very first women of color in comics. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history butlike their superheroine counterparts in Divas Dames &amp; Daredevils their influence on popular culture and the archenemies that thrill us today is unmistakable.Mike Madrid is the author of Divas Dames &amp; Daredevils  a ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Book of the Year and The Supergirls  an NPR Best Book To Share With Your Friends and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. A San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture Madrid also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines .
language: English
title: Vixens, Vamps & Vipers: Lost Villainesses of Golden Age Comics
publisher: Exterminating Angel Press