Frequently Asked Questions!

These are responses to questions I got asked all the time when the site was active. If you're looking for an email address -- well, there isn't any. This site is no longer maintained, and I have no interest in getting email related to it. But you can go to the letters page and see what sort of email I did get when the site was active!
Who are you and why do you do this?
I'm Jeanne Burch, and I have no life. Why else does someone read comics?

Do you do all this yourself?

Once upon a time, the answer was "yes." Lately, however, I've had some help. Sean McQuaid has helped a lot with editing and bios; in addition, Hulk expert Christopher Lawrence has contributed bios on Hulk-related characters. And there are now several other frequent contributors, including Bobby Coakley and Kirk Furlotte.

Do you have a personal web page?

Nope. My bio is on line at the Spider-Man Self-Proclaimed Experts page, or you can read about my research at SDSU's Plant Systematics page. I've also got a DareDevil-related fan fic on line if you're really looking for something to occupy your time.

Where's Jean Grey/Storm/Jubilee/other X-woman character?

Actually, there are lots of X-women on the site. But characters that already have their own page are not likely to be featured on my site as well, since I have a policy against duplicating other people's efforts. It just so happens that the X-women have inspired lots of folks to make lots of pages about them; the hard part for me is finding mutants that don't already have sites devoted to them! Check under "Other Super-Heroine Sites" on the links page; those are women you won't see on this site anytime soon.

Do you mind if I use these pictures on my own web site?

Not at all, as long as you follow a few simple rules:

  1. Add a link back to the page you took it from.
  2. Please don't link it directly from Geocities to load onto your page.
  Place a copy on your own server. It's okay to place a link
  to a picture on this site, but not to have it load directly. Thanks!
  3. ASK FIRST! Just so I know what's out there...
One of my main goals is to get information out on the 'Net about under-represented female characters, so I'm glad to make these images available!

Why don't you do more recent heroines?

This question always threw me. While many of my bios are from The Good Old Days (the 70s, when I started reading comics), many of them featured characters like Lyja and Blink, who are very recent indeed. Then I got the following from EmraldMyst@aol.com:

I don't know half of the people you have listed as Marvel Women! Why don't you put more recent people on this page, such as Rogue, Storm, Jean Grey, etc. It would be alot more interesting, and get more visitors if you just put more recent women on it! Also you get more people, because it would cater to younger people! Thanks for listening!
After I shut my jaw, I realized that it was really a variation on the where-are-the-X-women query. Some people only read X-issues, and don't realize that Jean Grey, having first appeared in 1963, is older than the Black Cat, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, Firestar and, in fact, most of the other heroines on this site. (I'll give you Hellcat; she's been around, in one form or another, since the pre-mutant days of 1945). Storm's debut was more than 20 years ago, and even Rogue is from 1981. Why "younger people" would be interested in a bunch of old ladies like that is beyond me!
Can you help me set up my own web page?

While I'm intensely flattered when people ask this, the answer is "no." What with maintaining this site and my more recent Villains of Marvel Comics site, and with my duties at Jonathan Couper's Spider-Man page, I have little spare time left, and none to devote to another page. But take heart! The original draft of this site was set up less than 24 hours after I bought my first ever computer book, "MacWorld's Creating Cool Web Pages with HTML." And I'm always ready to critique pages once they're up -- often whether you want them critiqued or not!

How come you haven't done (fill in name of missing heroine here) yet?

Hey, I'm working on it! I'm only one woman, and there are more heroines in the Marvel universe than you might think! I'll get around to all the heroines without their own sites sooner or later. But, please; make suggestions! I ran out of personal favorites (like Mary Jane Watson, the pre-Byrne Scarlet Witch, the Black Cat, Hellcat and the Valkyrie) about the second month I did this, so I need your favorites to keep going!


WARNING: I'm normally a polite person, but these next two questions, which I get asked over and over again, really, really, really bug me. In fact, they were at one time the two most frequently asked questions I got, and the inspiration for this FAQ. The language may get a little brusque. If you proceed beyond this sentence, you are tacitly acknowledging that you may be insulted ...
When are you doing a lingerie edition of The Women of Marvel Comics?

Never. Don't ask. I find the suggestion (as I find lingerie/swimsuit issues themselves) offensive. If you want to see it so badly (and if you really are that immature), buy the issue or make your own web page.

Do you have nude images of The Women of Marvel Comics?

Grow up. These are fictional characters. Further, these are fictional characters sporting physically impossible attributes. Further yet, these are fictional characters sporting physically impossible attributes drawn wearing spandex! Just print the images out and color them the appropriate skin tones yourself, moron! (Sheesh!)

And the new most frequently asked question is:
You're kidding! People really ask you for these things?!

Oh, yes, The whole reason this FAQ exists is because I used to routinely get a dozen such requests a day, often expressed in astonishing detail. It's also true that my non-compliance has elicited promises of violence (every thing from assault to two actual death threats) from some individuals. I've even had people (well, men) make bizarre leaps in logic about my personal life; acting on these assumptions, people (well, men) have sent me explicit pictures assuming I'd enjoy them. And there was one fellow, highly indigent at the idea that I was a woman who read super-hero comics, who sent me a list of reading material he considered more appropriate for females! So I've had a wide range of odd experiences related to running this page.

That being said, I've also had lots of people send me compliments, corrections and/or updates on their favorite characters, or who have just said they enjoyed the site. So don't get the idea that all my e-mail experiences have been bad ones. Far from it! Hey, you can go read some of the emails and judge for yourself!

Go to The Women of Marvel Comics Index.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000621101604/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2855/more.html