Do any of you comics honchos know anything about a comics mag called “Fem Fantastique?” It started in the late 70s and included Wonder Woman and others on the cover art, but also had some erotic stuff like Betty Page. I googled it on the Web and got a whole lot of nothin’. Tried Wikipedia too, and only got that Phantom Lady was in it.
What I want to know is, what sort of mag is/was it? Was it a regular comic book with sexier than usual heroines like “Cave Woman” and Frank Cho’s “Sheena”? Was it an erotic comic with the heroine running around naked and having sex and getting in bondage a lot, like the modern interation of “Domino Lady” or “Quadrant”? Or was it some sort of compendium or other, or something not like other comics? I don’t know. Does anyone know? The Web ain’t telling. And that’s weird, because every other comic I know of has a ton of fan webpages giving the lowndown on it.
It was published by AC Comics/Paragon if that helps.
Are you sure you aren’t thinking of FemForce? That’s the only title close to what you’re describing that was put out by AC. I tried googling Femme Fantastique and it didn’t turn up anything either.
Whatever it was, I can promise you Wonder Woman never appeared between its covers.
I don’t suppose you mean the magazine Femmes Fatales.
http://www.femmefatales.com/
It’s by the folks responsible for Cinefantastique, but it’s not a comic book – it’s a glossy magazine, with pictures. Nevertheless, it’s had comics stuff in it, and plenty of Betty Page. But it’s not from the publisher you name.
The link’s disabled since my site is an adult site and the censors at SDMB say that won’t go. But the image linked to is just the cover, and the cover itself is not naked or anything, it’s quite safe for work. Shows Wonder Woman, Phantom Lady, Sheena Queen of the Jungle and a couple of others sprinting about, with the text “Girl Art Galore!” in the corner.
So Wonder Woman was at least on the cover, if not between the covers.
Based on the cover alone, I’d hazard a guess that it’s a collection of B&W reprints from various Golden Age comics; I believe AC Comics has published a fair amount of such public-domain material. I doubt Wonder Woman fell into the same category, but perhaps there was some slender legal justification based on All-American Comics’ convoluted legal history. Or it could have just been a total ripoff on Paragon’s part.
I should point out that I’m not one of them there comics honchose (or any kind of hose for that matter), just someone who knows his way around search engines.
“Gosh, thank you Dan. I appreciate your help answering the question that had stumped me and others.”
“Why, you’re welcome, Evil Captor. Always glad to take time out of my day to help out someone who is so genuinely appreciative and doesn’t just ignore the effort and start merrily posting other threads.”
I do apologize, I should have responded faster to your post. I was hoping to get up my article on the Smallville dental gag scene with Allyson Mack so I could link to the Fem Fantastique scene that started me on the trail of this topic.
I still am thinking there might have been more than one iteration of Fem Fantastique, so I’ll continue to research. I do appreciate the link.
Here’s a link to the image that I found. It’s Not Safe For Work.