Not only did Tessie become Marvel's first female cover star in Joker Comics, she also carried three titles at once in the mid-1940s. Tessie Timely sponsored
\nWhile June Tarpé Mills' Miss Fury can be considered the first female superhero published by Marvel\/Timely in the Golden Age, and Millie the Model is undoubtedly the most famous female character to debut in that era, Tessie the Typist is arguably Marvel's first female star character. Years before Millie Collins, Patsy Walker & company came to dominate the Marvel humor title landscape , Tessie was a regular part of Joker Comics, and usually its cover feature.
Tessie was discovered by a movie producer in that issue, and found herself playing a Rosie the Riveter-style character in a propaganda film in Joker Comics #16. As a few other comic book series did during this period, the Tessie saga promoted the increasing importance of women in the workforce during WWII, with the character becoming a nurse, a reporter, and an assembly line worker, among other professions, throughout her war-era Joker Comics adventures.
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