“We’re trying to appeal to a female audience, trying to make her a hip, happening, 1970s woman striking out on her own,” Chris Claremont recalled of Ms. Marvel. “We say to the artist, ‘ … and we need her to look sexy.’ Well, his interpretation of sexy was derived from the ’40s, so what we got was a continuous series of crotch shots.” Claremont lobbied to get his old X-Men partner Dave Cockrum on the title, and…
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