Hodge I completely agree, an article on this would be very interesting, and my niece Evie (batgirl) is a great writer when she wants to be. I think it would be an excellent project for her, given her knowledge and love of comics. It sounds like you have quite an interesting job as well hodge, knowing how to do research. Very interesting indeed!

Regarding citing an actual comics example, I'm afraid I am like Marlene in that I grew up in the era where superhero comics were for boys only. I read Richie Rich, Little Audrey and Archie & Jughead. Not much trauma in any of those, unless Archie getting told to bugger off by Veronica's dad counts as trauma.