Fanboy Fantasies: Honey West

Fanboy Fanatsies: Modesty Blaise

Monica Vitti as Modesty Blaise, 1966.

Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti) is a thief and international adventurer with great beauty, intellect, and seduction and fighting skills.  She is hired by the British government to stop some diamond plot on the condition that she gets to keep the diamonds if they don’t give her all the details.  She enlists her “platonic” sidekick Willie (Terence Stamp) to aid her on this adventure.

Fanboy Fantasies: Catwoman

Julie Newmar as Catwoman, the "purrfect" villainess, on Batman.

Fanboy Fantasies: Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II

Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 1986-87. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, the Nite Owl, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and the Silk Spectre. These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s. Series writer Alan Moore created the main characters to present six "radically opposing ways" to perceive the world, and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible.

Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II) is the daughter of Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre. Laurie's mother apparently wanted her to follow in her footsteps and so she fought crime for ten years before the Keene Act banned vigilantes. Unlike the other protagonists, Silk Spectre was not based on a particular Charlton character, although her relationship with Dr. Manhattan is similar to that between Captain Atom and the heroine Nightshade. Moore felt he needed a female hero in the cast and drew inspiration from comic book heroines such as Black Canary and Phantom Lady.

Fanboy Fantasies: Emma Frost, the White Queen

An urbane, mutant telepath with a well-noted dry wit initially known as the White Queen, Emma Frost has evolved from one of the X-Men's most dangerous foes to one of its most central members.

Actress January Jones heated things up considerably in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class.

Fanboy Fantasies: Sheena and Elvis

Irish McCalla the exotic looking star the of TV series 'Sheenah Queen Of The Jungle' jokes with Elvis Presley backstage on The Milton Berle Show, 1956.

Queen of Night and Day(Sheena Queen of the Jungle, Queen of Night and Day, Queen of Pin-up)

There were two defining moments that lead Irish McCalla's cult following. First being the first great pin-up queen of post war magazines and one of the three or four definitive cheesecake models of the '50s. Second was her transformation into television's Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Sorta the '50s version of Tarzan meets Xena.

For more pin-up material, visit this great blog:

http://clubpinup.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html



Art by Dave Stevens.

Fanboy Fantasies: The Black Widow

Another super-sexy comics redhead, Natalia Romanova, as played by Scarlett Johansson.