Wonder Woman #16

(March-April 1946)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

[In Pluto's Kingdom, Part 1] The Secret of the Dark Planet! (Table of Contents: 3)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Joye Hummel (under house name Charles Moulton)

Pencils

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Inks

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Holliday Girls: Etta Candy
Aphrodite; Phillip Darnell; Steve Trevor; Wonder Woman [Princess Diana]; the Holliday Girls [Lorrie; rest unnamed]; the Amazons; Queen Hippolyte; Persephone (introduction, flashback); Dean Sourpuss; King Pluto (villain, mythological king of the underworld, introduction); Pluto's minions (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

After a Holliday girl is abducted by King Pluto, Wonder Woman and the Holliday girls travel to the furthest planet, where the king extracts their "color bodies" to light his gloomy planet and attempts to melt Wonder Woman like a color tablet.

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #7 (2012 [January 2013])
• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #3 (2018 [January 2019])

Keywords

Holliday College; Pluto (the planet)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.

According to Hippolyte, the River Styx is actually the stream of interplanetary ether between Earth and Pluto. Wonder Woman travels through space dragged behind a rocket ship, holding her breath; luckily, there's oxygen on Pluto.

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Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[In Pluto's Kingdom, Part 2] The River of Liquid Fire (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Joye Hummel (under house name Charles Moulton)

Pencils

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Inks

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Holliday Girls: Etta Candy
Wonder Woman [Princess Diana]; the Holliday Girls [Lorrie; rest unnamed]; King Pluto (villain)

Synopsis

Wonder Woman and her girls pierce Pluto's underworld and fight off his forces to retrieve their "dark earth" bodies, while Pluto escapes to mount an assault on Earth.

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #7 (2012 [January 2013])
• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #3 (2018 [January 2019])

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.

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The Weather Man / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Tom Jones (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Madame Curie (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

Alice Marble

Pencils

Alfonso Greene

Inks

Alfonso Greene

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

biography

Characters

Madame Curie

Indexer Notes

Credits verified by Jerry Bails.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Victory Puzzles / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

A. W. Nugent

Pencils

A. W. Nugent

Inks

A. W. Nugent

Colors

?

Letters

A. W. Nugent

Keywords

games; puzzle

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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Watt the Question Man / cartoon / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Ed Wheelan

Pencils

Ed Wheelan

Inks

Ed Wheelan

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oh, boy, my day off...

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Jack Liebowitz

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Published by Wonder Woman Publishing Inc.
480 Lexington Ave, NY. NY
Owners: J. S. Liebowitz; Detective Comics, Inc.
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Dangerous Adventure (Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Robinson (credited)

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Big Chief Moose (Table of Contents: 13)

Who's Who in Zooville / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Burton Geller

Pencils

Burton Geller (signed as Burton)

Inks

Burton Geller (signed as Burton)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

[In Pluto's Kingdom, Part 3] King Pluto's Revenge (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script

Joye Hummel (under house name Charles Moulton)

Pencils

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Inks

Harry Peter (signed as H. G. Peter)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Amazons: Hippolyte
The Holliday Girls: Etta Candy
Aphrodite; Phillip Darnell; Dean Sourpuss; Steve Trevor; Wonder Woman [Princess Diana]; the Holliday Girls [Lorrie; rest unnamed]; Paula von Gunther; Steve's secretary (unnamed, introduction); Ebony (Pluto's horse); King Pluto (villain)

Synopsis

Pluto kidnaps Steve and extorts a dynamo from Wonder Woman, intending to light his gloomy kingdom forever and let his kidnapped girls burn out.

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #7 (2012 [January 2013])
• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #3 (2018 [January 2019])

Keywords

Pluto

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.

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Illinois Merchandise Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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MoToR's Auto and Truck Repair Manuals / advertisement / 1 page (report information)