Spider-Woman #24

[iamrman]

Spider-Woman fights a fang of costumed weirdos. This was just one scene. I have completely forgotten what the rest of the issue was about.

The cleaning lady clearly never skips arm day.

Comments

[michael_ellis_day]

They're not dressed as gangsters; they're wearing zoot suits, an outfit with a complicated racial and cultural history, particularly in Los Angeles where the outfits were the pretext for racially motivated violence against Chicanos and Latinos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit

It's interesting this comic came out in early 1980. In 1979 there was a Broadway play called Zoot Suit (with a film version released in 1981) that made a lot of white people of that generation (like me) aware of the history and significance of the zoot suit for the first time. I don't know if Fleisher ever saw the play but he would probably have been aware of it.

[thanekos]

Of all the stock characters here, Hard Copman is the most.

[super_fly]

Whatever the real story behind Martha is, if that's their real name, I'm just going to believe she's a really shredded grandma, I mean look at that gun show.

[donnblake]

I think this is about all we get. She's a buff cleaner, and she's a mole in the precinct for the Gamesman or the Gamester or whoever that masked man was anyways.