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= Dynamite Damsels = Dynamite Damsels is a 1976 underground comic strip written and illustrated by Roberta Gregory.

Background
Roberta Gregory, a prolific contributor to many feminist and underground comix anthologies, created the strip Feminist Funnies in 1974. She expanded the strip in 1976 to create the original comic book Dynamite Damsels, after it was rejected by Wimmen's Comix due to an alleged similarity to her other work, an accusation she believed to be due exclusively to both comics containing lesbian characters.

Prior to being relabeled Feminist Funnies, Gregory's Frieda the Feminist comics were being published in the California State University, Long Beach, college humor paper run by Cartoonists Across America artist Phil Yeh. Her work was further supported and influenced by Nanny Goat Productions members Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli, whose publication Tits and Clits included some of these strips.

Dynamite Damsels was the first continuing series self published comic by a woman. Gregory has also called it the first regulation-sized comic self-published by a woman. She has commented on this, stating that she was unaware of the groundbreaking nature of her work at the time of publishing and was only informed later of its significance. Gregory has also expressed that she was ignorant of the issue of censorship in California at the time. She reflects on the comics as "quaintly drawn," expressing embarrassment at the artistic style of her earliest works.

Plot Summary
Dynamite Damsels is a comic book self published by Roberta Gregory in 1976, a collection of feminist and queer comic strips based upon experiences from Gregory's life and fantasies. It stars character Frieda Phelps, also present in her original Frieda the Feminist and Feminist Funnies strips.