September heralds the start of the school year, which is often a welcome relief for parents, if not for students. It might have been a while, but did you ever read comic books as a kid? Or maybe as an adult? If so, maybe you knew that once upon a time there was a DC Comics heroine called Lady Cop .
None of the character's incarnations lasted very long, but what does exist shows the comic book version of how female officers were expected to look and behave in the 1940s, then in the 1970s, and again in the 2000s. Joan Jennings, the first Lady Cop, didn't actually get her own comic book. She appeared in 1942's Gang Busters #9. After appearing in a single issue of her very own comic called "Lady Cop" in 1975, title character Liza Warner had to wait until 2006 to reappear. This time she was part of another comic, but she didn't stick around that long the third time, either. What do you think of these portrayals of women in law enforcement ?
