#I imagine that that’ll be carefully balanced as to not ever portray the pilots as incompetent
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Contact Comics (1944) #1
#so in this story her superhero role is presented that she secretly follows the pilots around in her own plane#and when they get in trouble she intervenes which gives them the opportunity to take control of the battle#and then she flies off#I imagine that that’ll be carefully balanced as to not ever portray the pilots as incompetent#and after that fight she lands her plane and ends up getting captured by Japanese soldiers#who she’s able to escape from on her own and destroy their equipment in the process#which I imagine is a kind of setting shift that allows them to portray stakes (her getting kidnapped)#without reflecting badly on the U.S.’ pilots#the way she talks about the men here stands out to me#she’s overall very charmed by them#‘They’re all such wonderful boys!’#again tying into the very pro U.S. forces messaging of this comic#aviation press#black venus#my posts#comic panels#racist language tw
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