I feel like every other post on The Great Comic Book Heroes is on an Alan Moore comic. I don't mean to favor him, it's just that I find his work so inspiring. For example I was reminded of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's character Cobweb the other day. She is a typical 40's style cheese cake superheroine. She doesn't have any real superpowers but what she does have is a see through costume and no undies. Perfect to make a 13 year old boy's mind go wild with lustful thoughts.
I think this strip really shows off Moore at his funniest. I get tickled seeing this grown man playing with these girls like a 12 year old with his sister's Barbies, stripping them naked and putting them in the most compromising positions. And the hamster wheel is just comedic genius!
The "doll torture chamber" was, of course, a reference to the gruesome Aurora model kits which allowed kids to build Vampirella, Frankenstein's monster, the mad Dr. Deadly, a hapless victim in hot pants, a laboratory setup and an axe-blade pendulum device: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9IKntPxLazw/T0rYQAo0DZI/AAAAAAAAA4k/RlCcD1nRWnA/s1600/Detective+Comics+%23414+-+Page+8.jpg
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