(Summer 1945)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- quarterly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.
- Brand:
- An All-American Publication
- Editing:
- M C Gaines (managing); Sheldon Mayer (editor); Julius Schwartz (assistant editor); Ted Udall (assistant editor)
- Format:
- Standard US Golden Age, Silver Age, then Modern color comic; was ongoing series
Adventures in Bitterland (Table of Contents)
Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page (report information)
Credits
- Pencils:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
- Inks:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; King Rigor; Prince Pagli
- Reprinted:
- in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)
The Icebound Maidens [Part 1] (Table of Contents)
Wonder Woman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joye Murchison [as Charles Moulton] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
- Inks:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed); Arlene (uncredited, backgrounds)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Aphrodite; Desira; Eve [as Nema] (introduction, Desira's daughter); Eve Lectress (introduction); Steve Trevor; Queen Hippolyte; Prince Pagli; Ariadna (Amazon neophyte); Mala; Count Frigid (villain, introduction); the Seal Men (villains, introduction)
- Synopsis:
- After helping a group of Amazon girls pass their initiation rites, Wonder Woman is sent by Aphrodite to inspire a race of Venusian women to repel their enemies: the evil Seal Men.
- Reprinted:
- in Wonder Woman (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972 series) #nn
- in Wonder Woman (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972 series) #nn
- in The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn
- in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)
Indexer Notes
-Joye Murchison credit verified to Jerry Bails; first name spelling correction from Joyce to Joye verified by Murchison family.
-in this story, the Garden of Eden still exists in the Antarctic under a ceiling of crystal ice
-young Amazon girls are shown to be living on Paradise Island, with no explanation of their origin.
The Mystery Maid [Part 2] (Table of Contents)
Wonder Woman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joye Murchison [as Charles Moulton] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
- Inks:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed); Arlene (backgrounds)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy & the Holliday Girls; Professor Frooz; Queen Eve; Leda; Princess Eve Lectress [as Nema]; King Rigor (villain, introduction); the Seal Men (villains)
- Synopsis:
- When Princess Lectress goes missing, Queen Eve, with Wonder Woman's help, invades Bitterland to retrieve her---unaware that the princess has run away to become a student at Holliday College.
- Reprinted:
- In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)
The Man Who Hated Trees (Table of Contents)
Darby Dunaway / text story / 2 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Miller [as Jay Marr] (signed)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- detective
- Characters:
- Darby Dunaway
none (Table of Contents)
Statement of Ownership / text article / 0.25 page (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Liebowitz (signed)
- Letters:
- typeset
Content Information
- Genre:
- fact
Indexer Notes
Published by Wonder Woman Publishing, Inc.
225 Lafayette Sreet, New York, NY.
Sheldon Mayer, editor
Owners: Jack Liebowitz; M. C. Gaines
Sojourner Truth (Table of Contents)
Wonder Women of History / comic story / 4 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Alice Marble
- Pencils:
- Alfonso Greene (signed)
- Inks:
- Alfonso Greene (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- bio
- Characters:
- Sojourner Truth
- Synopsis:
- Life story of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), born Isabelle, an uneducated black slave who uses her oratorical skill to champion social justice for women and blacks.
Slaves In the Electric Garden [Part 3] (Table of Contents)
Wonder Woman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)
Credits
- Script:
- Joye Murchison [as Charles Moulton] (signed)
- Pencils:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
- Inks:
- Harry G. Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed); Arlene (backgrounds)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; General Darnell; Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; Queen Lectress; Prince Pagli; Princess Eve Lectress [as Nema]; King Rigor (villain); the Seal Men (villains)
- Synopsis:
- While testing her new invention at the South Pole, Wonder Woman and Steve are captured by Seal Men and made slaves in the "Electric Garden," where they plan a revolt with the Eveland Girls.
- Reprinted:
- In Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)
Indexer Notes
-Wonder Woman invents the "telepathograph," which registers the face and voice of anyone talking in the world
-the Seal Men worship a Walrus God
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Icebound Maidens [Part 1]
Wonder Woman -
2.
The Mystery Maid [Part 2]
Wonder Woman -
3.
The Man Who Hated Trees
Darby Dunaway -
4.
none
Statement of Ownership -
5.
Sojourner Truth
Wonder Women of History -
6.
Slaves In the Electric Garden [Part 3]
Wonder Woman
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