Status of Millie the Model
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:05 am
Both Millie the Model and Patsy Walker both started out pretty much the same way, as 40s-era humor/romance comics that ran for many a year. To my knowledge, neither one of them had officially interacted with the Marvel Universe (save perhaps Millie briefly appearing as the Blonde Phantom in Millie the Model #2 in 1946) until officially introduced as canon in FF Annual #3.
With Patsy Walker, it was eventually established that most if not all of her childhood adventures were works of comic book fiction written by her mother and were not canon, and she eventually became joined the Defenders as Hellcat (similar to how the original Two-Gun Kid, Clay Harder, was retconned to being a dime novel character in Two-Gun Kid #60).
It would seem, however, that Millie the Model's childhood adventures did occur in the MU, and that now, as an older woman, she owns Millie's Models, a successfful modelling firm. For anyone more in the know, did Millie's early comic appearances occur during her original run (ie. was she active in the MU in the 1940s), or has her career been retconned so that these stories occurred in more recent years, perhaps starting only a few years FF #1?
In FF Annual #3, she appears in her traditional youthful form, but in her later appearance in Sensational She-Hulk #60 she appears elderly, but again appears youthful in Models Inc. Is Models Inc even canon?
With Patsy Walker, it was eventually established that most if not all of her childhood adventures were works of comic book fiction written by her mother and were not canon, and she eventually became joined the Defenders as Hellcat (similar to how the original Two-Gun Kid, Clay Harder, was retconned to being a dime novel character in Two-Gun Kid #60).
It would seem, however, that Millie the Model's childhood adventures did occur in the MU, and that now, as an older woman, she owns Millie's Models, a successfful modelling firm. For anyone more in the know, did Millie's early comic appearances occur during her original run (ie. was she active in the MU in the 1940s), or has her career been retconned so that these stories occurred in more recent years, perhaps starting only a few years FF #1?
In FF Annual #3, she appears in her traditional youthful form, but in her later appearance in Sensational She-Hulk #60 she appears elderly, but again appears youthful in Models Inc. Is Models Inc even canon?