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Fredric Wertham made her one of the most prominent cases in his 1954 ''[[SeductionOfTheInnocent Seduction of the Innocent]]''. The cover image shown to the right was used extensively to discuss the sexualization and degradation of women in comics. This was one of rallying cries that lead to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Authority. Her costume was redesigned to be much more modest when a third company, Ajax-Farrel, briefly revived the character in 1954-1955.

Even though DC acquired the rights to Quality's heroes in 1957, the Phantom Lady had to sit out UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, not coming back until 1973 in DC's ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}}, where she had joined TheResistance to fight back against the Nazi overlords of the series. She gained the powers of full invisibility and teleportation, but was largely relegated to a support role.

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Fredric Wertham made her one of the most prominent cases in his 1954 ''[[SeductionOfTheInnocent Seduction of the Innocent]]''. The cover image shown to the right was used extensively to discuss the sexualization and degradation of women in comics. This was one of rallying cries that lead to the creation of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode MediaNotes/TheComicsCode Authority. Her costume was redesigned to be much more modest when a third company, Ajax-Farrel, briefly revived the character in 1954-1955.

Even though DC acquired the rights to Quality's heroes in 1957, the Phantom Lady had to sit out UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, not coming back until 1973 in DC's ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}}, where she had joined TheResistance to fight back against the Nazi overlords of the series. She gained the powers of full invisibility and teleportation, but was largely relegated to a support role.
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Even though DC acquired the rights to Quality's heroes in 1957, the Phantom Lady had to sit out UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, not coming back until 1973 in DC's ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}, where she had joined TheResistance to fight back against the Nazi overlords of the series. She gained the powers of full invisibility and teleportation, but was largely relegated to a support role.

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Even though DC acquired the rights to Quality's heroes in 1957, the Phantom Lady had to sit out UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, not coming back until 1973 in DC's ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}, Fighters|DCComics}}, where she had joined TheResistance to fight back against the Nazi overlords of the series. She gained the powers of full invisibility and teleportation, but was largely relegated to a support role.



%% * TheCowl: The original Lady was very much of one of these. The ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} and modern day flashback to the '40s mostly depicted her as TheCape. The 2006 version is back to the cowl.

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%% * TheCowl: The original Lady was very much of one of these. The ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}} Fighters|DCComics}} and modern day flashback to the '40s mostly depicted her as TheCape. The 2006 version is back to the cowl.



* {{Teleportation}}: When in the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}.

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* {{Teleportation}}: When in the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}.Fighters|DCComics}}.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While she and Iron Munro were dating, she conceived a child with him which she secretly gave birth to in a home for unwed mothers and put up for adoption, never telling him about the baby even after they married. After decades of being bounced around the foster system like a rubber ball, Walter Pratt ([[ComicBook/TheAtom no relation]]) turned up again as a super-powered serial killer of women who would eventually kidnap his grandson (her great-grandson) in order to try to harvest his bone marrow.

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* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Though DC and other publishers have tried giving her more conservative costumes or body suits, she inevitably goes back to wearing a bathing suit and cape.


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* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Though DC and other publishers have tried giving her more conservative costumes or body suits, she inevitably goes back to wearing a bathing suit and cape.
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* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys?: The '40s version apparently found a top secret government blacklight device lying around the house.

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* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys?: WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: The '40s version apparently found a top secret government blacklight device lying around the house.
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%% * BareYourMidriff: The 2006 version does this.
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rich idiot with no day job was disambiguated by TRS. As is typical with wick cleaning projects, zero-context examples are deleted as it's impossible to tell if they're actually examples of anything.


* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Possibly justified by the fact that well she was a rich woman in the '40s. A day job would be suspicious.
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Shes Got Legs is currently a disambiguation


* ShesGotLegs: If Matt Baker's art wasn't emphasizing her chest, it was emphasizing her legs. Sometimes it was both.
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* HotScientist: Stormy Knight. See BadassBookworm above.
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trope in-universe only


* AwesomeMcCoolName: Stormy Knight. Also doubles as a MeaningfulName reflecting Stormy's darker and more ruthless personality.
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%% * ClarkKenting: Notably subverted in the '40s version where a frequent challenge was the fact that her costume featured no mask of any kind, leading to her having to disguise her face using various methods from people who would recognize her.

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%% * ClarkKenting: Notably subverted in the '40s version where a frequent challenge was the fact that her costume featured no mask The inability of any kind, leading Sandra's father and Don Borden to her having to disguise her face using various methods from people who would recognize her.her in her Phantom Lady costume in the old stories could get downright laughable at times. In one issue, she's in costume and tied up in Sandra Knight's bedroom. Don comes in, expecting to find Sandra but finding Phantom Lady "instead," and still does not make the connection. She doesn't even wear a mask, for God's sake!

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