Wonder Woman #26

(November-December 1947)

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

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

Boys and Girls! Here's an Important Message for You! (Table of Contents: 2)

public service announcement / 0.67 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Speed Maniacs from Mercury! (Table of Contents: 3)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 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); Arlene (backgrounds)

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Job Number

WW 27 A

Genre

superhero

Characters

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Queen Hippolyte; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Queen Desira; natives of Venus; the male slaves of Mercury (introduction for all); Queen Celerita (villain, introduction); the giant women of Mercury [Speeda; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

Accidentally arriving on the planet Mercury, Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls are captured by giantesses who have enslaved their men and been driven mad by their resulting idleness.

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #4 ([May] 2020)

Keywords

Invisible Plane; Magnetic hearing; Mental Radio; Mercury (planet); Venus (planet); Venus Girdles

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously credited William Marston. Background inker credit by Jerry Bails.

Story re-written and re-drawn in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #211 as "The Maniacs of Mercury," where the villains are male instead of female. The Robot Plane, despite having a propellor, is able to travel into outer space. Queen Celerita gets the idea of enslaving the men of Mercury after hearing a radio show from Earth, "Mary's Easy Existence," where all women gossip, play cards, and spend money, as the men slave to support them and maids do all the housework.

Wally Butts (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Racing to the Rescue (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

"U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Carrie Chapman Catt (Table of Contents: 6)

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

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Paul Reinman (signed)

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Paul Reinman (signed)

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WW 31

Genre

biography

Characters

Carrie Chapman Catt

Indexer Notes

Art credits verified by Jerry Bails.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Spalding / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Mistress of the Beasts (Table of Contents: 8)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 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); Arlene (backgrounds)

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Letters

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Job Number

WW27B

Genre

superhero

Characters

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Angus Richman (introduction, death); Jarvis (Richman's servant, introduction); Tigra Tropica (villain, introduction); Tigra's trained tigers [Tabby; rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis

A famous animal trainer uses hypnotism and her tiger slaves to extort money from faint-hearted millionaires.

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #4 ([May] 2020)

Keywords

Loving Authority; Mental Radio; Transformation Island; Tycoon Club

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously credited William Marston. Background inker credit by Jerry Bails.

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

Out of the Gag-Bag / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Ed Wheelan

Pencils

Ed Wheelan

Inks

Ed Wheelan

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Letters

Ed Wheelan

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Have you any luck at dat farm house...

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Credits per Jim Van Dore. We previously credited Art Helfant.

Under the Waves (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ted Udall (credited as Charles King)

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Genre

adventure

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

Ton o' Fun / cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Harry Lampert

Pencils

Harry Lampert

Inks

Harry Lampert

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Letters

Harry Lampert

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Congratulations! You're an uncle!

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Script and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

The Mountain Trail (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Bright Star Flashlight Battery / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

The Golden Women and the White Star! (Table of Contents: 13)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 12 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); Arlene (backgrounds)

Colors

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Letters

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Job Number

WW27C

Genre

superhero

Characters

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Paula von Gunther; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; three unnamed Army scientists (introduction for all); Queen Supreema (leader of an Intergalactic Peacekeeping Force, introduction); Supreema's followers (introduction for all); King Crystallar (villain, King of the White Star, introduction); the Genii People (villains, Crystallar's people, introduction for all)

Synopsis

A giant red planet is discovered by Army scientists emitting radiation deadly to the Earth, just as Wonder Woman receives a distress call from the King of the White Star. Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls are then captured by Queen Supreema and her golden women, but soon learn they are not the enemy!

Reprints

• in Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #4 ([May] 2020)

Keywords

Hydronitigin; Mental Radio

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously credited William Marston. Background inker credit by Jerry Bails.

Story re-written and re-drawn in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #210. Although the Robot Plane was able to fly into outer space in the first story in this issue, here it needs to be fitted with a "stratosphere-jet attachment" to do so.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Parker Johns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Thom McAn / advertisement / 1 page (report information)