The first
Sun Girl was one of three superheroines that Marvel was pushing back in the late 40's, the idea being to appeal to girls. I searched her own short-lived comic some months ago along with that of
Namora and found no spankings, but she did later appear in three other titles that I'm going through now, one of them being
The Human Torch. In issue #32, she demonstrates a strange method of criminal apprehension:
Sun Girl uses her head, or another part of her anatomy, in
The Human Torch #32 (Sept. 1948). © Marvel Characters Inc.
Offhand, I can't think of another scene where a superheroine deliberately lands butt-first on top of a villain, but perhaps in these early days the editors were concerned about having a female slug it out with a male. That doesn't really make sense since
Black Canary (a known judo expert) was around by then, and in fact I think Sun Girl at some point also demonstrates a knowledge of judo, but we won't spend too much time worrying about it. It occurs to me that if this were to become her SOP (Standard Operating Procedure), criminals could easily counter the technique by spanking her until her rear end is too sore to allow her to use it!
Some documentation has been found indicating that
Bill Woolfolk was the writer, and Nick Caputo believes the the artist may have been
Mike Sekowsky whom I'm pretty sure I mentioned in the context of the comic book version of
McLintock!. We won't spend much time on that either other than to say that Woolfolk was a very successful writer, which makes me wonder about this very odd story ("Double Cross in Death"). No explanation is given as to how Sun Girl suddenly shows up as the Torch's partner, and we only find out later that in her secret identity she's the Torch's
secretary! (And why does a super-hero need a secretary? To make appointments for the villains? Oh well, never mind.)
Now,
that opens up two possible avenues for a Torch/Sun Girl spanking if she screws up in either vocation! I'll check the rest of the comics but I don't expect it actually happened; still, it's a fine idea for some independent artist to run with, or for a commission (if I had any money
).
Jean Grey also need to be spanked especailly in the Phoenix Saga where a spanking wouldv"e done her some good!!!
