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A rogue’s gallery of the most seductive and dastardly villainesses in Golden Age comics “Mike Madrid is doing God’s work. . . . mak[ing] accessible a lost, heady land of female adventure.” —ComicsAlliance “These ‘lost’ [characters] are now found—to the delight of comic book lovers everywhere.” —STAN LEE “Lovers of comics and strong women everywhere thank you, Mike Madrid!” —TRINA ROBBINS, author of Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896–2013 Between the covers of Vixens, Vamps & Vipers, fans will rediscover the original bad girls of comics—as 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, and double-dealing criminal masterminds, are some of the very first women of color in comics. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but—like their superheroine counterparts in Divas, Dames & Daredevils—their influence, on popularculture and the archenemies that thrill us today, is unmistakable.