More science fiction stuff from DC in April 1947 with All-Star Comics #35. Per Degaton is introduced, who steals a time machine and goes back into the past to prevent Alexander the Great from winning a key battle in order to become ruler of the present-day Earth. As a result, technology starts to disappear in […]
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In Sensation Comics #66 (April 1947), Steve Trevor is shot and killed accidentally by a kid playing with his father’s gun. In a fit of grief, Wonder Woman rushes Steve to Paula von Gunther, who uses the purple ray to heal Steve. Phew, I really thought Wonder Woman’s love interest and most important supporting cast […]
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In Wonder Woman #23 (March 1947), Queen Hippolyta shows what amounts to be a “home movie” of Diana as a seven-year old girl who bests alien invaders and rescues Amazons. This is the first appearance of Wonder Girl. Versions of Wonder Woman at various young ages become a popular story-telling device in the pages of […]
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In Comic Cavalcade #12 (September 1945), Dalma the Amazon gets jealous of Wonder Woman’s adventures and decides to remove her bracelets and leave Paradise Island. In a wacky mix-up, she mugs a girl, steals her clothing and then fails to put it on properly, resulting in a scandal where she walks down the street in […]
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Since the transistor was invented in 1947, I was surprised to see “electronics” mentioned in Sensation Comics #46 (August 1945) until I remembered that vacuum tubes had been around for a few decades by then. Even so, it’s called “the new science of electronics” on the splash page. It’s pretty odd timing since the atomic […]
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Colonel Darnell helps Wonder Woman foil an evil plot of Countess Draska – (a replacement villain for Baroness Paula) in Sensation Comics #40 (February 1945). As a result, he ends up being promoted to a General. I like how Wonder Woman at least tried to do an actual love triangle for awhile.
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In Sensation Comics #36 (October 1944), Wonder Woman is beset by a league of her villains all at once. From left-to-right we have Giganta, the Duke of Deception, Blakfu of the Mole Men, Cheetah, Queen Clea of Atlantis, Doctor Psycho, and the ringleader of this story – a jealous actor named Bedwin Footh.
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William Moulton Marston continues to put Wonder Woman in new submissive positions and bondage scenarios – this time being strip-searched by a police matron in Sensation Comics #34 (August 1944).
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Wonder Woman masquerades as herself and finds herself dancing with a fake Superman while other fake Justice Society members rock out with Etta Candy and her girls. I like how each costume is a fake, but not an obvious one (Flash’s lightning bolt goes the other way!).
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Joining Lois Lane and Alfred the Butler, Etta Candy makes her solo feature debut in Cavalcade Comics #7 (June 1944). Her three-page story features her joining a dude ranch capturing a cattle rustler.
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