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When
Harris bought the rights to Vampirella they decided to change her
character and also her costume. She became fiercer, wilder, and
sometimes (in the early days) more dressed.
Her
costume developed long gloves and boots, and she took to wearing a
waist-length 'bomber' jacket (see below right). She was a child of her time, fiercely
independent and determined to make a life for herself free of the need
for Adam and others.
It
was during this time that a comics' convention was broken. Normally
other characters in comic stories seem unable to notice the slightly
weird outfit that superheroes and heroines are wearing, especially in
the case of sparsely-dressed women who should be more careful. Yet a
few times in the early Harris comics other characters comment on her
clothes (or rather lack of them). It was not to last long, for
in later stories as her costume reduced in size so the ability to
notice this seemed to disappear. In fact the latest comics
(2004) do show a reappearance of the recognition that her costume is
somewhat sparse, as in Vampirella/Witchblade 2 plus the
immortal line "What kind of woman wears the same outfit all the
time". Classic.
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