Wonder Woman #27

(January-February 1948)

The Secret of the Kidnapped Dummy (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Moulton Marston

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Hoodlums [Grubber Graff (villain); Pic Socket (villain); Mick McDuff (villain)]; General Darnell; Steve Trevor; Queen Hippolyte; Paula von Gunther; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]

Synopsis:

Paula builds a Diana Prince robot to present an award to Wonder Woman, unaware the ceremony will make both women targets for a gangster's revenge.

Indexer Notes

General Darnell calls Diana Prince the "top woman G-2 operator."

Wonder Woman visits Mount Olympus, depicted here as a mountain with a 100-ton boulder resting on the summit to protect the precious Olympic clay underneath.

The ceremony takes place at "Radison" Square Garden.

The Story of Sacajawea (Table of Contents)

Wonder Women of History / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Robert Sale

Inks:

Robert Sale

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

bio

Synopsis:

Story of Sacajawea, an Indian woman who aided Lewis and Clark in their search for a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean through her resourcefulness and knowledge of the land.

Indexer Notes

art id by Craig Delich 9/05

The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher?

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Etta Candy; Hard Candy; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Holliday Girls

Synopsis:

On a visit to Etta's Ranch in Texas, Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls fend off rustlers with the help of Rainbow and Stardust, two legendary horses.

Indexer Notes

Wonder Woman carries an "Amazon purple healing salve," probably the purple healing ray in topical form.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

School Daze / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Lampert

Pencils:

Harry Lampert

Inks:

Harry Lampert

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Indexer Notes

gags

The Great Problem (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ted Udall

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

text story

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Pet-Laffs / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Lampert

Pencils:

Harry Lampert

Inks:

Harry Lampert

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

gags

The Mystical Power of Idea-Forms (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alvin Schwartz?

Pencils:

Harry G. Peter

Inks:

Harry G. Peter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Etta Candy; Holliday Girls; Queen Hippolyte; Wonder Woman; Count Gaston (Introduction; villain); King Ersatz (Introduction); Annette Dubois; Philippe Francois; Princess Hyeenia Ersatz; Whizbam (Dungeon guard)

Synopsis:

Panicking when Wonder Woman is sucked from the robot plane on the way to Paradise Island, Etta is reassured by Hippolyte, who shows in the magic sphere Wonder Woman has been taken to the past as an "idea-form" to help a young girl save her kingdom from an evil usurper.

Indexer Notes

Writer id by Bob Hughes 9/05.

Idea-forms are statues of people or inventions that existed as ideas before they were realized, like DaVinci's airplane, Jules Verne's submarine, or Wonder Woman, a strong but tender woman. People with inventive or desperate minds draw cosmic rays from the idea-forms when they need help realizing their visions. In this case, Wonder Woman actually appears in the past when Annette wishes there were a woman "tender enough to understand my need but strong enough" to defeat her enemies. The statues and models are housed in a room in Hippolyte's palace called the "Storehouse of Idea-Forms."