Wonder Woman #3

(February-March 1943)

[Doom On Diana's Day: Part 1] (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; Eve Brown; Dorothy Lord; Baroness Paul von Gunther (villain); Queen Hippolyte; Steve Trevor; Apollo; Keela (villain; Intro); Zoe (Amazon); Mala

Synopsis:

Wonder Woman flies to Paradise Island to celebrate Diana's Day, unaware she's brought a stowaway-- one of Paula von Gunther's slave girls, intent on killing Wonder Woman and guiding a Japanese destroyer to the Amazon homeland.

Reprinted:

• In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000)

Indexer Notes

The Amazons speak English when Etta Candy visits, an indication they speak another language.

Diana's Day is the Amazon Christmas, which occurs on the Winter Solstice (dated here on December 25th, instead of the 21st). An Amazon is chosen to wear the mask of the goddess, filling arrow quivers with gifts; any Amazon girl can attempt to remove the goddess' mask to take her place, but should she fail, she must dress as a woodland creature and be prey in the next day's hunt.

Steve receives a mental radio from Wonder Woman as a Diana's Day present.

[Paula Von Gunther, Invisible Spy: Part 2] (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Steve Trevor; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Colonel Darnell; Mala; Etta Candy; Paula von Gunther (villain)

Synopsis:

Paula enslaves Steve and Wonder Woman and leads them into an underground deathtrap.

Reprinted:

• In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000)

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman uses a "brain wave detector" on Paula's slave girls, a machine that prints a read-out of a person's thoughts.

It is noted that the Paradise Island piers are electrically wired to detect approaching vessels.

It is suggested that the power of the lasso comes from Aphrodite.

Paula demonstrates her hypnotizing technique, to which even Wonder Woman is susceptible.

Paula has created a wearable version of the invisibility machine she used in Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #6.

Nurse Edith Cavell (Table of Contents)

Wonder Women of History / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alice Marble

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

bio

Synopsis:

Story of Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915), who helped allied soldiers escape German custody so they could rejoin the war effort.

Indexer Notes

Credits verified by Jerry Bails (October, 2005). Nurse Cavell was tried by a German court for her activities and killed by firing squad on the morning of October 12th 1915.

[The Rescue of Gerta Von Gunter: Part 3] (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Paula Von Gunther (Villain; Origin; reforms); Gerta Von Gunther (Intro; Paula Von Gunther's daughter); Kibby Maxwell; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Baron Gottfried von Gunther (flashback); Etta Candy; Mala

Synopsis:

Learning the cause of Paula's villainy, Wonder Woman travels to Nazi Germany to retrieve the Baroness' daughter from a concentration camp.

Reprinted:

• In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000)

The Furlough (Table of Contents)

Hop Harrigan / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Ordeal of Fire [Part 4] (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Colonel Darnell; Steve Trevor; Kibby Maxwell; Paula Von Gunther; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Mala; Ann Maxwell; Aphrodite; Queen Hippolyte

Synopsis:

In preventing a Nazi plot to destroy a munitions factory and saving Wonder Woman's life, Paula von Gunther is redeemed and accepted into Aphrodite's service as a neophyte.

Reprinted:

• In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #2 (2000)

Indexer Notes

The date of Paula's trial is given as December 10th 1942; Wonder Woman serves as Paula's lawyer in the courtroom.

Wonder Woman makes an Amazon "anti-oxygenation" ointment that saves Paula's life; Diana Prince returns to nursing to attend to Paula in her convalesence.

Hippolyte uses clay to sculpt new features for Paula's burned face, which is brought to life by Aphrodite.

Wonder Woman uses the magic lasso on herself, compelling herself to treat Paula well.