the loveliest librarian

Title: Not One of Us
Creator: Defilippis, Nunzio
Creator: Weir, Christina
Relation: New Mutants
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Date: 2003-11
Identifier: v. 2, n. 5
Type: Still image
Type: Text

Title: Patsy Walker
Creator: Hartley, Al
Creator: Lee, Stan
Publisher: Bard Publishing
Date: 1960
Type: Still image
Type: Text

Tonight we are going down, under the ground… to Office 99, a small, neat cubicle, airless and white, at the end of a corridor in the third subbasement of the Empire City Public Library. Here, at a desk that lies deeper in the earth than even the subway tracks, sits young Miss Judy Dark, Under-Assistant Cataloguer of Decommissioned Volumes. The nameplate on her desk so identifies her. She is a thin, pale thing, in a plain gray suit, and life is clearly passing her by. Twice a week a man with skin the color of boiled newspaper comes by her office to cart away the books that she has officially pronounced dead. Every ten minutes or so her walls are shaken by the thunder of the uptown local racing overhead.

On this particular autumn night, only the prospect of another solitary evening lies before her. She will fry her chop and read herself to sleep, no doubt with a tale of wizardry and romance. Then, in dreams that strike even her as trite, Miss Dark will go adventuring in chain mail and silk. Tomorrow morning she will wake up alone, and do it all again.

Poor Judy Dark! Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big black eyeglasses! [The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon, p. 267]

Title: Old Flame
Creator: McCarthy, Kevin
Creator: Brereton, Dan
Creator: Konot, Sean
Relation: Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventurs of the Escapist. Vol. 1
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Date: 2004
Type: Still image

Title: Librarian Hell
Creator: Savage, Doug
Publisher: savagechickens.com
Date: 2007
Type: Still image
Type: Text

Title: Librarians Can’t Read
Creator: Drew
Publisher: toothpastefordinner.com
Date: 2007-05-09
Type: Still image
Type: Text

In my everyday identity, I’m the head librarian of Gotham City Public Library! Everybody thinks of me as a “plain Jane” — a colorless female brain…

Title: The True-False Face of Batman!
Creator: Fox, Gardner F. (Gardner Francis), 1911-1986
Creator: Infantino, Carmine
Creator: Greene, Sid
Relation: Showcase Presents Batgirl
Publisher: DC Comics, Inc.
Date Issued: 2007
Date Copyrighted: 1967
Type: Still image
Type: Text