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That would be considerably less insulting.

Steamboat was a character introduced to appeal to young black audiences. He was a charicature with a speech defect who acted as a sla "valet" to Billy. He never appeared again after a delegation of African Americans visited the audience to sincerely ask them to what the hell they were thinking.

Imagine if a company wanted to get more girls into reading comics, and did so by giving the big hero a nymphomaniac stripper girlfriend who was a swell cook too.

Knowing the nineties, someone probably did.