Dale Messick(1906-2005)

Male readers wrote to Messick, assuming that Dale was a man and asking for private sketches of Brenda that were racier than those in the newspapers. She send one such fan a drawing of Brenda going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, with the note "Is this daring enough?".

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it.