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The Wonder Woman Chronicles #2
Wonder Woman Chronicles Volume 2.
The series collecting Wonder Woman’s 1940s adventures in chronological order of original publication continues! In this title, Wonder Woman battles Mars, god of war, along with his many accomplices. Also, Wonder Woman encounters Paula Von Gunther, a treacherous German spy.
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2011
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About the author
William Moulton Marston
134 books51 followersDr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen names Charles Moulton and William Marston, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship), served as exemplars for the character and greatly influenced her creation.
He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
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February 28, 2014
Despite the overwhelming racism, ugly artwork, and bondage fetishism, I somehow managed to kind of enjoy this book. The stories are pretty simple and there's plenty of action - exactly what you'd expect from a World War II era comic book. The villains are all agents of Axis powers, children help save the day, Steve Trevor takes his off shirt a couple of times (!!), Hitler chews on a carpet, and America is saved! For a richer experience read all of the Germans' lines like they do in that 'Whitest Kids You Know' skit about jerks. And, quite unexpectedly, Etta Candy kicks ass. Did you remember to buy war bonds? Oh, you'll also learn all kinds of inventive racial slurs for the Japanese and pick up tips on how to restrain, wrestle, slap, whip, and spank your way to victory - or, if you'd rather, submit willingly to the Amazon princess's punishments. Fat girls ride kangaroos and eat bonbons! Its all very stupid, not to mention offensive, but its also fun to see Wonder Woman punch Nazis. And, uh, hog-tie them. While they become her happy slaves. Er, and so on.
June 24, 2017
I found a cheap copy of this at Forbidden planet and decided to try it as I liked the art and have always been curious about early Wonder Woman comics. It was AMAZING! Much more like the 30s serials and comics that I love than the later superhero comics. It was quite interesting to sit and read about Wonder Woman bringing hope in the war and imagining reading this while the war was still going on. I don't think most comics these days try and be as relevant. There were astro travel adventures to other planets, an evil woman working for the Nazis who kept slave girls, and very little Steve Trevor! But the best thing about this was Etta Candy! She saved woman 6 times and wonder woman only kinda saved her once. She was Wonder Woman's best friends and she had her own group of girls who flew and skied and faught the bad guys. She used deadly candy to get into a German concentration camp to free children. She was fat and transferred into Wonder Woman's body (to save her) and didn't like it because she was too skinny! She may be my new favourite heroine! I am definitely going to have to track down the other WMM volumes purely for the sake of Etta!
May 22, 2022
The baroness is back in some of these as well as some of the male "gods."
January 10, 2023
Interesting……
November 16, 2013
This book begins with Wonder Woman #2 and ends with Wonder Woman #3. In between, the book features Wonder Woman stories form Sensation Comics #10-#14 and Comics Cavalcade #1.
Moulston's plotting of Wonder Woman #2 and #3 is particularly clever. After Wonder Woman #1 followed the popular practice the day of four unrelated stories starring the heroine, in Both Wonder Woman magazines we're presented with four stories that are closely related. The first set teamed Wonder Woman against Ares, the god of War in a story that seemed like a Justice Society in reverse as each featured a different sub-villain battling Wonder Woman. Mars himself is up in the first story followed by attacks by Greed, Deception, and Conquest. Thus Moulston used Greek mythology to create a modern parable of war.
In Wonder Woman #3, the four stories focus on Wonder Woman challenging the baroness Von Gunther.
Wonder Woman at this point in her history has a solid supporting cast with back up from Steve Trevor and the surprisingly competent Etta Candy. In one story, it's even revealed that Wonder Woman belongs to a local bowling league. (Wouldn't you love to bowl against that team.)
The book is one that parents should be cautious about sharing with their kids. The book's pseud-paganism and constant use of slave imagery as some sort of feminist metaphor is kind of surprising for the 1940s, and it's something parents should be aware of before buying.
Moulston's plotting of Wonder Woman #2 and #3 is particularly clever. After Wonder Woman #1 followed the popular practice the day of four unrelated stories starring the heroine, in Both Wonder Woman magazines we're presented with four stories that are closely related. The first set teamed Wonder Woman against Ares, the god of War in a story that seemed like a Justice Society in reverse as each featured a different sub-villain battling Wonder Woman. Mars himself is up in the first story followed by attacks by Greed, Deception, and Conquest. Thus Moulston used Greek mythology to create a modern parable of war.
In Wonder Woman #3, the four stories focus on Wonder Woman challenging the baroness Von Gunther.
Wonder Woman at this point in her history has a solid supporting cast with back up from Steve Trevor and the surprisingly competent Etta Candy. In one story, it's even revealed that Wonder Woman belongs to a local bowling league. (Wouldn't you love to bowl against that team.)
The book is one that parents should be cautious about sharing with their kids. The book's pseud-paganism and constant use of slave imagery as some sort of feminist metaphor is kind of surprising for the 1940s, and it's something parents should be aware of before buying.
April 19, 2015
Volume two of the Chronicles runs through the end of first full year of Wonder Woman comics (1942) and into the second year (1943). It is a collection both expanding the WW universe from the first introduction and reflecting the era in which it the stories were originally published with Diane battling the nazis and their allies, be they soldiers or evil gods.
While the stories continue from where the earlier collection's ones left off, they are running out of the steam that pushed the earlier collection to the epicness it had. It just seems that Moulton Marston attempts to push WW to new level, but has hard time topping the earlier stories. So instead of new heights we get sometimes quite prepostorous details, events and sadly even storylines. While the character still has the same potential, she is not used to its fullest. Instead, while this was a feature before too, we get collection of propaganda stories featuring WW more keyed to war effort than to improving the character. Sign of the times, but not best for the comic.
While the stories continue from where the earlier collection's ones left off, they are running out of the steam that pushed the earlier collection to the epicness it had. It just seems that Moulton Marston attempts to push WW to new level, but has hard time topping the earlier stories. So instead of new heights we get sometimes quite prepostorous details, events and sadly even storylines. While the character still has the same potential, she is not used to its fullest. Instead, while this was a feature before too, we get collection of propaganda stories featuring WW more keyed to war effort than to improving the character. Sign of the times, but not best for the comic.
July 14, 2013
The original Woner Women comics from the 1940s.
The stories by William Moulton are a bit weird, rather different than most superhero comics. The stories are not always very good, and sometimes they don't make sense at all, but they are always original.
The art by Harry G. Peter will not be appreciated by everyone, but I certainly love it. And again, it is very different form the art in most superhero comics.
The stories by William Moulton are a bit weird, rather different than most superhero comics. The stories are not always very good, and sometimes they don't make sense at all, but they are always original.
The art by Harry G. Peter will not be appreciated by everyone, but I certainly love it. And again, it is very different form the art in most superhero comics.
March 19, 2014
Wonder Woman battles the forces of the war-god Mars and the treacherous German spy Paula von Gunther, in between trying to balance her double-life as Diana Prince and fend off ordinary Axis adversaries. With its rather grotesque art and Marston's bondage themes this isn't for everyone's taste, but I like it.
September 14, 2016
Nope. Done with these. Racist, plodding stories with tons of words that are worth skipping. I don't know why but these stories were particularly painful as compared to the previous volume.
The art isn't too bad (when they aren't portraying a minority), but that's about it.
The art isn't too bad (when they aren't portraying a minority), but that's about it.
November 19, 2013
Not exactly politically correct, but interesting to get some background on the Wonder Woman character.
January 12, 2017
Camp of the highest quality. Pretty sure it's unintentional. Which makes it funnier.
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