Giant-Size Marvel: Alan Davis Women of Marvel Cover

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Alan Davis Women of Marvel Cover

A couple of months ago, Marvel published a special Women of Marvel magazine with over 100 pages of content devoted to super-heroines. There were two Alan Davis covers, which are joined here (thanks to the scanner who gave this to me).

This cover has the classic Marvel gals, who I can all name, but one! Let's go, from left to right:

Golden Age Black Widow
Miss America
Scarlet Witch
Ms. Marvel
Invisible Woman
Medusa
Phoenix
Black Cat
Mary Jane Watson
Gwen Stacy
Storm (in her 80s punk biker chick mohawk outfit, yowza!)
Black Widow
Spider-Woman
Wasp
Elektra
She-Hulk

Now in the very center you have:
17. Kitty Pryde
18. Who the heck is the girl next to Kitty? With the giant mouse hat and holding a phone? Please leave a comment if you know.

It constantly blows my mind that Spider-Woman is now a major character. There are two characters that I wish had been featured here: Clea and Valkyrie.

I've been on an Alan Davis kick lately--I think this man's never lost his magic touch. I've recently revisited JLA: The Nail, Fantastic Four: The End, and the first issue of Avengers Finale. Nuff Said!

Update: Comments from my old MT blog...

5 Comments

By Bully on July 15, 2010 8:30 AM

#18 is Molly Hayes, aka Princess Powerful of Runaways.

By Zebtron A. Rama on July 15, 2010 10:05 AM

That wee gal is Molly from "the Runaways." The title was canceled last year but if you get the chance I highly recommend reading the trades. Very good stuff.

By Richard Guion on July 15, 2010 10:48 AM

Thanks to everyone who identified Molly! I read the entire run by Brian K Vaughan and it was indeed an excellent series. Since the Runaways haven't been around, I completely forgot about Molly.

By Dphunkt001 on July 20, 2010 12:23 PM

i was gonna say Molly too, without actually knowing her name was Molly..lulz. almost seems outta place among all the well established, or long running characters. what shes wearing doesnt even identify her well (except that its childish/cute). what tipped me off so easily, was her feature on the X-Mens Heroic Age one-shot cover. she had similar headwear there too.

By phoenix_force_98 on January 2, 2011 6:32 AM

I think it might be illyana rasputan ( hope i spelled it right) she was Magik is i remeber