Ladies of Comic Books

1. Of the defunct Fiction House, she was the feminine answer to Tarzan and she nabbed the claim of first female comic book character with her own title.

2. Somewhat ironically, nine live-action actresses have portrayed some version of this DC Comics foil.

3. This is a DC Comics eco-terrorist, but before that a hit 1963 song by The Hollies, but first the more common name for toxicodenron radicans.

4. This alliterative DC Comics character has no other superpowers but fearlessness and tenacity, and is in part modelled after real-life writer Nellie Bly who once feigned insanity so the world could get an inside look at an insane asylum.

5. After DC Comics stripped this Amazonian princess of her myriad powers, a chagrined Gloria Steinem put her on the first cover of Ms. magazine, and soon her marvelousness was restored.

6. As her name implies, she was a vagrant drifter before becoming a Marvel supervillain. Then she fell in with the X crowd, who accepted her crippling touch as a blessing.

7. Naturally, as a Marvel hero who can control precipitation, she earned this name.