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Wow, and I thought she was annoying when she had the power of Comic Awareness.

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Rob Brown said on March 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 am

blowing off Manlypipe

No pun intended?

I actually remember reading a backup story in one Hulk annual, featuring She-Hulk and old-lady-Blonde Phantom (not so blonde anymore, but whatever). Written by Bill Mumy, if I’m not mistaken. It was good. Definitely better than this.

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Tobin made her a leader of an Avengers team that never existed in his Age of Sentry mini…

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Lindsay K said on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am

I would guess that Manlypipe DOES realize she’s his assistant, but just assumes that either she is mentally challenged or has a strange sense of fashion, and doesn’t talk to her about it because he has yet to find a hotter piece of blonde ass to serve as his assistant.

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What exactly is making the “SNAP” sound in that one panel? The action lines make it look like she broke a finger.

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Sofa King said on March 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 am

I thought she was hitting the light switch. I like how he has all the models at his swinging pad, and yet lapses into broken english when the BP shows up.

“Blond Phantom! You here?”

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While that’s pretty bad, I’m sure there must be an even less feminist heroine.

I mean, this is comics we’re talking about here.

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Cookie McCool said on March 23rd, 2009 at 12:43 pm

To be fair, the cold cream jar would have been made of glass, and would seem awfully heavy and tough to a little lady. And maybe she was secretly hoping it would shatter and a little cold cream might clear up his condition and he’d have a personality shift and become a good guy. Because, you know, most problems can be solved if you’d just try to be a little prettier.

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“Sofa King said:
I thought she was hitting the light switch.”

Light switch? I thought that was the keyhole on the door that was open?

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ApathyMonger said on March 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm

“A bun is like a chastity belt, but made of hair.”

I love this sentence so damn much.

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candlejack said on March 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Perhaps she broke a nail, underlining the serious nature of her predicament.

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Rob Brown said on March 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm

To be fair, the cold cream jar would have been made of glass, and would seem awfully heavy and tough to a little lady. And maybe she was secretly hoping it would shatter and a little cold cream might clear up his condition and he’d have a personality shift and become a good guy. Because, you know, most problems can be solved if you’d just try to be a little prettier.

If comments can still win threads, this comment is the comment that should win this thread.

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Anybody else notice the placement of “The End,” or is that best left unsaid?

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The shame of it is, it could have been good if she’d had a personality. Really, asking questions is probably a more effective method of finding out whodunit than beating the crap out of people.

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To be fair, any secretary who tried to engage in the physical sort of crimefighting would end up broken in three or four pieces before you could say “suspension of disbelief”.

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NCallahan said on March 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm

That poor bastard’s entire power… hell, his entire personality was built up around having a jar of cold cream deflected off his face. Stoneface could have been Sabertooth before there was Sabertooth. Instead, he’s just fucking Stoneface.

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I must ‘fess up to creating the Phantom Blonde, the Blonde Phantom’s daughter. I was co-writing a 3-part SHE-HULK story with Steve Gerber and could never keep the Blonde Phantom’s name straight, constantly reversing the words. So when her daughter decided to get involved in the superheroics, we decided to stick Phantom Blonde monicker on her.

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Aw dude, I always thought she was great. Any chickadee who fights crime in an evening dress and heels is fine by me.

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Kingfisher said on March 24th, 2009 at 12:52 am

Before there was Power-girl’s cleavage window, there was… Phantom Blonde’s belly window! Truly a more innocent time it was.

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HA HA U FORGOT MY FACE IS LIEK STONE!

How could she forget? Isn’t that the guy’s only special feature?

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How could she forget? Isn’t that the guy’s only special feature?

Blonde Phantom.

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Lister Sage said on March 24th, 2009 at 9:08 am

Lise: Thank you. I was going to say something if no one else did. Also, something that MGK didn’t mention was the Mr. Manlypipe was actually kind of a sucky detective and it was BP who solved most of his cases. Yes, she had a huge crush on him that meant she let him take the credit, but Golden Age comics, what are you gonna do. And that costume is great. If I had a shot at writing for Marvel I’d bring back the Blode Phantom.

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I liked the Phantom Blonde…she was spunky!

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Rob Brown said on March 24th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

The shame of it is, it could have been good if she’d had a personality. Really, asking questions is probably a more effective method of finding out whodunit than beating the crap out of people.

I agree with this. Still, when the answer to one of your questions amounts to “go away, you annoying person,” then you are probably doing something wrong.

I’d like to know what she did after that. Did she say “No, I’m not going anywhere until I get answers?” Did she leave and then sneak back into his office later on to snoop around? Did she leave and tail him later to see if he’d lead her to anybody? Or did she just leave and think “D’oh. He doesn’t want to talk to me. I guess this is a dead end.”

If it’s #4, then that’s pretty sad.

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Maybe he’s deliberately pretending to be fooled by her “secret identity” as part of some weird role-playing thing. Maybe the panels we see are just what could be printed according to the standards of the time, and the real complete story, while making more sense, might just be too much information…

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FurikoMaru said on March 26th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

And people bitch about Sailor Moon being useless…

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Mark Temporis said on March 26th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Lister Sage: So basically, it was similar to the Green Hornet/Kato dynamic, where the assistant is really the guy and the guy is basically useless?

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Lister Sage said on March 27th, 2009 at 11:15 am

Mark Temporis: I’ve not read the actual issue, so this is coming from what I remember from her Wikipedia entry, but yes.

Something else I want to add: if Stillface’s face is as hard as stone then you’d break you hand trying to punch him. And since he goes around saying “Ha, my face is hard as stone!” I can see why she’d try and throw something at him instead of throwing a punch.

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there should be more comics like this.

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I was reading your website on The Blonde Phantom. I wanted to put a comment on this like I put on other websites. I think it would be a good idea for a movie made on The Blonde Phantom. I think it would be a hit movie. I think it would appeal to all comic book collectors of all ages. Older collectors would see it because they remember, like me, hearing about The Golden Age. Younger collectors would see this because they heard about The Golden Age. Kids would be interested because it is something from comics a long time ago. There are a lot of actresses that can play this character. If Marvel Films can make other characters into movies, what would be wring if they did a movie on her. This would also make up for a lot of the bad comic book movies they did. One example would be The Fantastic 4 movie they had this past Summer. I feel they should stick to the original way. They shouldn’t do this on another take. It should also take place in the 1940’s like it originally did. They can make the story a remake of one of the stories from the book. They could also do several stories in 1 movie. I am giving this comment because I feel by giving this to different sites, it would cause a movie to be made. I read on The Internet what people felt about The Blonde Phantom. They seemed to like it. They also had an interest in it. I do not own my own computer. I am sending this comment on a library’s computer. This means I don’t have an E-Mail address or my own website. I would appreciate, if you can send me a response with a letter. I would be interested in what people feel about this idea. This would also tell me you received this comment. If you write back, my name is Steven Lantz. My address is 1601 West 5th St., Brooklyn N.Y. 11223. I hope I hear from you. If you write back with a letter, you would be the 1st one to have done this.

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I gave a message a while ago. It was about The Blonde Phantom being a movie. I even checked on this site. I even see the comment I made a while ago. It was never made into a movie. I never got an answer from anybody about my idea. I would appreciate, if someone was to give a comment on what I mentioned. I would give my name and address again. This is because I am not on The Internet. My name is Steven Lantz. My address is 1601 West 5th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11223.

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