In “The Talking Tiara!”, a story from Wonder Woman #66 (March 1954), we get the origin story for Wonder Woman’s tiara. The tiara apparently gives Wonder Woman the ability to understand and speak any language she wants. She tells the story to Steve Trevor about how she won the tiara by battling a dinosaur, a […]
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In Wonder Woman #59 (March 1953), Diana meets a doppleganger who has identical appearance and powers. This is Princess “Tara Terruna”, which means “Wonder Woman” in their language. Wonder Woman deduces that she is on a parallel Earth that has doubles of everyone on Earth: We are still a long ways away from a true […]
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In Wonder Woman #56 (Sept 1952), Steve Trevor takes Wonder Woman out on a date to see a movie. What movie? Superman and the Mole Men of course! Wonder Woman would not see a theatrical release for another 65 years!
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Sensation Comics #107 (November 1951) makes the abrupt transition from a superhero comic featuring Wonder Woman to becoming a supernatural/horror type comic. Sensation only lasts for about another year or so before being cancelled, leaving Wonder Woman’s only regular appearance in her own mag. This is in stark contrast to Superman (appearing in four different […]
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The Junior Justice Society of America (JJSA) was an actual DC fan-club that sometimes made in-universe appearances in stories. With the last appearance of the Justice Society of America in All-Star Comics, I suppose DC didn’t know what to do with this fan club, so they revived it in Wonder Woman comics.
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In Sensation Comics #103 (March 1951), Wonder Woman goes up against a foe which requires her to time travel to 2051. Once in New York, she discovers that no one remembers Wonder Woman, yet the rest of the Trinity, Superman and Batman, are fondly remembered. It turns out the villain had deliberately wiped out every […]
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The last appearance of the Justice Society for more than ten years occurs in All-Star Comics #57 (December 1950) with “The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives”. It’s mostly a bland story about a crime syndicate boss named The Key, but I did find it interesting that a panel featuring Wonder Woman’s invisible plane describes it […]
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Wonder Woman #45 (November 1950), includes a re-telling of Wonder Woman’s origin. It describes in detail how Aphrodite awarded Queen Hippolyte a magic girdle, and how Hercules tricked her into giving up the girdle, rendering the Amazons helpless against Hercules’ army. Hippolyte makes a plea to Aphrodite, who agrees to help the Amazons this one […]
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1948 starts out with a new super-villain team-up: Villainy Inc. makes their debut in Wonder Woman #32 (January 1948). Giganta, Doctor Poison, and Cheetah join some other minor Wonder Woman villains are led by Eviless from Saturn to take on Wonder Woman.
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The lineup for EC Comics begins to shift at the end of 1947 after Max Gaines’ untimely boating death, when William Gaines takes over the reins. In December 1947, Moon Girl and the Prince debuts. Moon Girl is a girl from Samarkand who has super strength and a moon rock which gives her even more […]
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