Women superheroes have often gotten the short end of the stick in all media of artistic expression. Even though they've existed in comics since the 1940s, countless comic storylines involving ...

Supergirl has always been an unlikely pioneer. While Superman’s cousin and fellow refugee from the planet Krypton was not the first female superhero, she was the first DC or Marvel superhero to get ...

Superhero stories have always been about power, but for a long time, comics made it seem like that power belonged only to a certain kind of hero. Early books gave readers plenty of capes, masks and ...