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Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman #1
Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman, Vol. 1
This value-priced collection includes over 500 pages of classic comics!
Wonder Woman launched into the Silver Age of Comics with these tales, in which the Amazon Princess battled colorful new foes including alien dinosaurs, amoeba men, and other threats, with the mysterious Merman at her side, along with her teenaged sidekick, Wonder Girl!
Wonder Woman launched into the Silver Age of Comics with these tales, in which the Amazon Princess battled colorful new foes including alien dinosaurs, amoeba men, and other threats, with the mysterious Merman at her side, along with her teenaged sidekick, Wonder Girl!
528 pages, Paperback
First published August 22, 2007
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Robert Kanigher
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One of the most prolific writers in comics, particularly in the Silver Age. He took over scripting duties on Wonder Woman after William Moulton Marston's death, and handled the character's transition from the Golden to the Silver Age. He also created Barry Allen, the second Flash, for editor Julius Schwartz's superhero revival of 1956, as well as writing and editing DC's pioneering war titles.
His creations include Sgt. Rock, the Unknown Soldier, Barry Allen, Ragman, the Losers, Black Canary, the Metal Men, Poison Ivy, Enemy Ace, the Suicide Squad, and Rex the Wonder Dog.
One of the most prolific writers in comics, particularly in the Silver Age. He took over scripting duties on Wonder Woman after William Moulton Marston's death, and handled the character's transition from the Golden to the Silver Age. He also created Barry Allen, the second Flash, for editor Julius Schwartz's superhero revival of 1956, as well as writing and editing DC's pioneering war titles.
His creations include Sgt. Rock, the Unknown Soldier, Barry Allen, Ragman, the Losers, Black Canary, the Metal Men, Poison Ivy, Enemy Ace, the Suicide Squad, and Rex the Wonder Dog.
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April 8, 2014
In 1958, in Issue #98 Wonder Woman rebooted for the Silver Age. This book collects the first 20 issues of the Silver Age run with art by Ross Andru and stories by Robert Kanigher.
The art remains classy and fun throughout. I much prefer the style to the much more crude Wonder Woman of the golden age. One of my favorite features of Andru's art is his portrayal of Wonder Woman changing into costume, the sequence drawing is just a great touch.
I have much more mixed feelings on the stories. With Issue 98, Kanigher begins again with a new origin story for Wonder Woman is not tied to the golden age version. Rather than Steve Trevor crashing on Paradise Island, the Amazons themselves decide to send someone out. And Wonder Woman isn't given her costume for this purpose. She already had the costume, but they did have a contest which she won and she's immediately tasked with turning a penny into a million dollars to give charity.
She takes the identity of Diana Prince in order to avoid Steve's creepy attempt trick her into marriage and our story is set. The stories in the first half of the book tend to have a light touch with some decent humor and fun. Issue #100 actually had a very meta story in which Paradise Island insist she do something grand for her 100th issue. Plus there was an issue where Wonder Woman took a young fan to visit Paradise Island.
The second half of the book was more problematic. In many ways, the book really copied from other comics. While I'm certain that there was a certain amount of this at every DC comic in the Silver Age, it was pretty noticeable here. For example, in one issue, Wonder Woman loses her powers for a day, an idea lifted from Martian Manhunter's stories. It made sense for the Martian Manhunter with his science based wonders. Given that Wonder Woman's are more magical, this was just kind of stupid.
The biggest ripoff of other books was the story of Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman as a girl, a blatant attempt to play to the strength of characters like Superboy and sidekicks like Robin and Kid Flash. The big problem with this was that Wonder Woman grew up in an all-female Utopia with few real opportunities for actual adventures, leading to story lines that were more than a little bit contrived such a robot girl built to be Wonder Girl's only playmate.
In addition, Wonder Girl knew that she would grow up to be Wonder Woman, which given that her origin involved a contest was kind of stupid and makes the whole origin of Wonder Woman dumb. She even sets out to try and meet her older self, something which some theorist could say would end the space-time continuum. But given that she lived on Paradise Island, I get the desperation to lift the boredom.
More than Wonder Girl treating the space-time continuum like its a toy is that these stories led to the introdtion of Merboy, an insufferable lovesick undersea teenager who makes Steve Trevor look like the biggest alpha male in the world. His attempts to woo Wonder Girl are annoying and just take up way too many pages. But this is what Kanigher was reduced to when trying to write a story about a teenage girl living on a perfect island with no men and free from competition as the only teenager.
Plus, while I'm glad they didn't go into all the complexity f Wonder Woman Creator Charles Moulston's ideology, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason for Paradise Island being all female other than that it's all female.
However, that's not to say the stories are all bad. They're some fun one and the early part of the book is a nice opportunity for parents who want to introduce their children to early Wonder Woman without any real questionable content, and of course the art is great throughout. However, the book's weaknesses stop this book from being anything other than average.
The art remains classy and fun throughout. I much prefer the style to the much more crude Wonder Woman of the golden age. One of my favorite features of Andru's art is his portrayal of Wonder Woman changing into costume, the sequence drawing is just a great touch.
I have much more mixed feelings on the stories. With Issue 98, Kanigher begins again with a new origin story for Wonder Woman is not tied to the golden age version. Rather than Steve Trevor crashing on Paradise Island, the Amazons themselves decide to send someone out. And Wonder Woman isn't given her costume for this purpose. She already had the costume, but they did have a contest which she won and she's immediately tasked with turning a penny into a million dollars to give charity.
She takes the identity of Diana Prince in order to avoid Steve's creepy attempt trick her into marriage and our story is set. The stories in the first half of the book tend to have a light touch with some decent humor and fun. Issue #100 actually had a very meta story in which Paradise Island insist she do something grand for her 100th issue. Plus there was an issue where Wonder Woman took a young fan to visit Paradise Island.
The second half of the book was more problematic. In many ways, the book really copied from other comics. While I'm certain that there was a certain amount of this at every DC comic in the Silver Age, it was pretty noticeable here. For example, in one issue, Wonder Woman loses her powers for a day, an idea lifted from Martian Manhunter's stories. It made sense for the Martian Manhunter with his science based wonders. Given that Wonder Woman's are more magical, this was just kind of stupid.
The biggest ripoff of other books was the story of Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman as a girl, a blatant attempt to play to the strength of characters like Superboy and sidekicks like Robin and Kid Flash. The big problem with this was that Wonder Woman grew up in an all-female Utopia with few real opportunities for actual adventures, leading to story lines that were more than a little bit contrived such a robot girl built to be Wonder Girl's only playmate.
In addition, Wonder Girl knew that she would grow up to be Wonder Woman, which given that her origin involved a contest was kind of stupid and makes the whole origin of Wonder Woman dumb. She even sets out to try and meet her older self, something which some theorist could say would end the space-time continuum. But given that she lived on Paradise Island, I get the desperation to lift the boredom.
More than Wonder Girl treating the space-time continuum like its a toy is that these stories led to the introdtion of Merboy, an insufferable lovesick undersea teenager who makes Steve Trevor look like the biggest alpha male in the world. His attempts to woo Wonder Girl are annoying and just take up way too many pages. But this is what Kanigher was reduced to when trying to write a story about a teenage girl living on a perfect island with no men and free from competition as the only teenager.
Plus, while I'm glad they didn't go into all the complexity f Wonder Woman Creator Charles Moulston's ideology, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason for Paradise Island being all female other than that it's all female.
However, that's not to say the stories are all bad. They're some fun one and the early part of the book is a nice opportunity for parents who want to introduce their children to early Wonder Woman without any real questionable content, and of course the art is great throughout. However, the book's weaknesses stop this book from being anything other than average.
February 4, 2023
Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman Vol. 1 is a perfect example of a solid 3.5 star book but I didn't want give it less than that. A lot of the stories are fun but they become repetitive. One thing that I had to remind myself is that these comics weren't meant to be read one after another the way I did. I also am not sure if the creators expected anyone to read these comics a half century or more later. With that said, there are some elements and characters that I would love to see in the current Wonder Woman or Young Diana stories.
May 4, 2012
This is one huge chunk of a collection. There's a little over 500 pages of Silver Age Wonder Woman reprinted here, in black and white. To be perfectly honest, they're only worth reading for hardcore Wonder Woman fans, or fans of the Silver Age in general. It also has the first proper appearance of Wonder Girl, back when she was still just a teenaged Diana. She must have been very popular right away, as nearly every issue after her introduction had a Wonder Girl side story.
May 18, 2022
This volume started a "reboot" of Wonder Woman which introduced the character as most of us are familiar with her. This stories in this volume are from 1958-1960. This wasn't bad at all. It's Silver Age DC, which means you aren't going to get the most sophisticated stories, but they are fun. Robert Kaniger is credited with these stories, and he was a writer that was ahead of his time. Most Silver Age comics were overwritten with too much text, but Kaniger managed to keep this text a little lighter and let the art tell the story, something which wouldn't become the norm for several more years. Also, most of the art is credited to Ross Andru, who I became a fan of through his work on Amazing Spiderman.
The issues are in the 3 part format, as were many DC comics in the Silver Age. Sometimes it's one stor in three parts, but most of the time it's at least two stories, as a teen Wonder Girl is also featured in most issues.
A nice read that's a great example of DC Comics from the time period.
A nice collection
The issues are in the 3 part format, as were many DC comics in the Silver Age. Sometimes it's one stor in three parts, but most of the time it's at least two stories, as a teen Wonder Girl is also featured in most issues.
A nice read that's a great example of DC Comics from the time period.
A nice collection
June 4, 2015
Wonder Woman is rightfully treated as a transformative figure in American culture and certainly comic books, and accurately so. She really stands on her own as a female superhero who excels on her own.
That being said, this late 1950s collection of her adventures can be described as a middling success more than anything else. The biggest drawback is repetition. This is a theme that indeed repeats in all of the DC superheroes from the beginning of time up until the late 1960s. Character relationships are clear, never change, don't change between issues, no cliffhangers, etc.
In "Wonder Woman", the worst manifestation is the constant reminder of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Steve works for the US military, and he and Wonder Woman constantly team up to save the US/World from super threats like giant aliens, giant sea creatures, regular giant people and other kinds of aliens. The US Military is also where Diana Prince, Wonder Woman's civilian alter ego, works.
An example of the issues with quality of writing in this book is the explanation given as to why Wonder Woman adopted the Diana Prince alter ego to begin with. As printed herein, Steve Trevor is convinced that he could recognize Wonder Woman if she were hiding in plain sight. So Wonder Woman being as smart as she is, creates Diana Prince to prove Steve wrong. So all those elaborate costume changes she has to make, is because of a random bet.
This is one of any number of things in the book that are explained to the readership in a way that is technically clear, but becomes incredibly convoluted in the telling. Like "oh, I'm a bad guy who travels in time and creates historical disasters, but I'm also a robot". In a way, it's almost charming, as dated things can be.
One thing that gets repeated a lot is how Steve Trevor has romantic aspirations for Wonder Woman, but she can't marry him until she is no longer needed to fight crime. It gets pretty sickening, and I'm sure Steve Trevor is a three dimensional nice guy, to read issue after issue him saying "Angel, why won't you marry me?" and many issues ending on Steve slinging some variant of how the issue's events are fine because he finds Wonder Woman attractive. It seems like at times a blatant way of comforting some vaguely defined male audience that Wonder Woman is not the exclusive star of the show.
The superior issues are the flashback narratives of "Wonder Girl", Wonder Woman's adventures as a teenager on Amazon Island. Part of its superiority is by comparison, we get to focus on her camaraderie with Hippoltya (mom) and Amazonian women, no Steve Trevor lecherousness to be found. Part of the charm is the courtship she has with a Merman boy, aptly albeit insultingly referred to as "Merboy". Although Merboy pulls some misogynistic moves by the end of this volume, they seem to have genuine affection for each other, and adventure as true equals, even as Wonder Girl is clearly stronger and more talented at being strong and stuff.
A few examples from the volume demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of this book, namely the aforementioned weakness of things being kind of confusing even as they are clearly explained.
The first issue is issue #98, and it's actually quite useful. This is because despite being 98 issues down the line, it does a fairly comprehensive and interesting job of presenting how Wonder Woman won her title, good origin story. All of these Amazonian women show up to compete for the job, and Hippolyta prevents her motherly rooting interest for our Wonder Woman by making all the girls look exactly the same.
It's a suspenseful story, but an issue also arises with the title "The Million Dollar Penny". It turns out that becoming Wonder Woman means that if they ask you to, you have to make a million dollars out of an ordinary penny. It is incredibly arbitrary and distracting, not to mention a little off putting as some kind of comic book mythology, but, and this is important, Wonder Woman's energy and good will pulls it through almost.
Issue No. 100, the cover even announces "big 100 issue" is more problematic. The main story is about Wonder Woman trying to get through a forest of giants, or something. This is even more problematic for a "big issue" because EVERY ISSUE IS ABOUT GIANTS. There are giant aliens, there are aliens that can make things giant, and there are actually multiple issues about "giant underwater creatures" (if I see another giant electric eel...). I suppose it raises the stakes, but in practice it seems lazy, redundant, and a false promise of damage to be done (she is not threatened very well by these giants).
The back up story is interesting in that it directly addresses the "Wonder Woman 100" that you're reading, but it's also confusing. It turns out that Amazon Island produces every issue of Wonder Woman by capturing what actually happened. But they're in trouble, because she hasn't had an adventure for this month. And not only that, if their special "Amazonian cameras" don't physically see Wonder Woman do the real thing, they can't record them in the issue. A lot of interesting quirks and ideas, but they read as a blur of forced logic, a modern reader can't help but think "but couldn't you have done this instead", this happens a lot...
I can't help but to compare it to a late 60's Flash story where Barry Allen ends up on our Earth and asks DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz for help. Better writing!
The last story of the book is another interesting but sort of off putting variation on plot structure. Apparently in a throwback to an older Wonder Woman thing, she runs into a bunch of 1950s college girls. They are stereotypes. One is fat and eats candy, one plays with toys, one is short and wants to be tall, the last one is tall and wants to be short. That's all they are, it is pretty insulting to all involved. And Wonder Woman tells them stories about how she had to fight off different kinds of fishermen. The action is diverting enough, the comedic banter is forced and like not funny.
The plots have their plot holes, but there is inherent strength. Ross Andru, the artist, is up there for my all time favorites, and he draws superhero action on a large scale, in a plaintive way, it's always good. And Robert Kanigher, the writer, although he missed the boat on multi-issue stories and character depth and other now obvious strengths, creates a solid base of action/tension. If only he "got" modern dialogue.
It's not the worst form of leisure reading.
That being said, this late 1950s collection of her adventures can be described as a middling success more than anything else. The biggest drawback is repetition. This is a theme that indeed repeats in all of the DC superheroes from the beginning of time up until the late 1960s. Character relationships are clear, never change, don't change between issues, no cliffhangers, etc.
In "Wonder Woman", the worst manifestation is the constant reminder of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Steve works for the US military, and he and Wonder Woman constantly team up to save the US/World from super threats like giant aliens, giant sea creatures, regular giant people and other kinds of aliens. The US Military is also where Diana Prince, Wonder Woman's civilian alter ego, works.
An example of the issues with quality of writing in this book is the explanation given as to why Wonder Woman adopted the Diana Prince alter ego to begin with. As printed herein, Steve Trevor is convinced that he could recognize Wonder Woman if she were hiding in plain sight. So Wonder Woman being as smart as she is, creates Diana Prince to prove Steve wrong. So all those elaborate costume changes she has to make, is because of a random bet.
This is one of any number of things in the book that are explained to the readership in a way that is technically clear, but becomes incredibly convoluted in the telling. Like "oh, I'm a bad guy who travels in time and creates historical disasters, but I'm also a robot". In a way, it's almost charming, as dated things can be.
One thing that gets repeated a lot is how Steve Trevor has romantic aspirations for Wonder Woman, but she can't marry him until she is no longer needed to fight crime. It gets pretty sickening, and I'm sure Steve Trevor is a three dimensional nice guy, to read issue after issue him saying "Angel, why won't you marry me?" and many issues ending on Steve slinging some variant of how the issue's events are fine because he finds Wonder Woman attractive. It seems like at times a blatant way of comforting some vaguely defined male audience that Wonder Woman is not the exclusive star of the show.
The superior issues are the flashback narratives of "Wonder Girl", Wonder Woman's adventures as a teenager on Amazon Island. Part of its superiority is by comparison, we get to focus on her camaraderie with Hippoltya (mom) and Amazonian women, no Steve Trevor lecherousness to be found. Part of the charm is the courtship she has with a Merman boy, aptly albeit insultingly referred to as "Merboy". Although Merboy pulls some misogynistic moves by the end of this volume, they seem to have genuine affection for each other, and adventure as true equals, even as Wonder Girl is clearly stronger and more talented at being strong and stuff.
A few examples from the volume demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of this book, namely the aforementioned weakness of things being kind of confusing even as they are clearly explained.
The first issue is issue #98, and it's actually quite useful. This is because despite being 98 issues down the line, it does a fairly comprehensive and interesting job of presenting how Wonder Woman won her title, good origin story. All of these Amazonian women show up to compete for the job, and Hippolyta prevents her motherly rooting interest for our Wonder Woman by making all the girls look exactly the same.
It's a suspenseful story, but an issue also arises with the title "The Million Dollar Penny". It turns out that becoming Wonder Woman means that if they ask you to, you have to make a million dollars out of an ordinary penny. It is incredibly arbitrary and distracting, not to mention a little off putting as some kind of comic book mythology, but, and this is important, Wonder Woman's energy and good will pulls it through almost.
Issue No. 100, the cover even announces "big 100 issue" is more problematic. The main story is about Wonder Woman trying to get through a forest of giants, or something. This is even more problematic for a "big issue" because EVERY ISSUE IS ABOUT GIANTS. There are giant aliens, there are aliens that can make things giant, and there are actually multiple issues about "giant underwater creatures" (if I see another giant electric eel...). I suppose it raises the stakes, but in practice it seems lazy, redundant, and a false promise of damage to be done (she is not threatened very well by these giants).
The back up story is interesting in that it directly addresses the "Wonder Woman 100" that you're reading, but it's also confusing. It turns out that Amazon Island produces every issue of Wonder Woman by capturing what actually happened. But they're in trouble, because she hasn't had an adventure for this month. And not only that, if their special "Amazonian cameras" don't physically see Wonder Woman do the real thing, they can't record them in the issue. A lot of interesting quirks and ideas, but they read as a blur of forced logic, a modern reader can't help but think "but couldn't you have done this instead", this happens a lot...
I can't help but to compare it to a late 60's Flash story where Barry Allen ends up on our Earth and asks DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz for help. Better writing!
The last story of the book is another interesting but sort of off putting variation on plot structure. Apparently in a throwback to an older Wonder Woman thing, she runs into a bunch of 1950s college girls. They are stereotypes. One is fat and eats candy, one plays with toys, one is short and wants to be tall, the last one is tall and wants to be short. That's all they are, it is pretty insulting to all involved. And Wonder Woman tells them stories about how she had to fight off different kinds of fishermen. The action is diverting enough, the comedic banter is forced and like not funny.
The plots have their plot holes, but there is inherent strength. Ross Andru, the artist, is up there for my all time favorites, and he draws superhero action on a large scale, in a plaintive way, it's always good. And Robert Kanigher, the writer, although he missed the boat on multi-issue stories and character depth and other now obvious strengths, creates a solid base of action/tension. If only he "got" modern dialogue.
It's not the worst form of leisure reading.
March 31, 2014
This was a chore to get through. Repetitive, cheesy, and cleaner than a Christian rock band, most of these stories involve Wonder Woman battling something huge, or some kind of duplicate of herself, or something from space. At one point she actually battles a huge duplicate of herself controlled by something from space. The original Wonder Girl - a young Diana growing up on Paradise Island - is introduced in this volume, and at first her adventures with Ronno, her "mer-boy" boyfriend, are a nice break from yet another story featuring adult Wondy beating up a whale or confounding an extra-dimensional giant. It didn't take Kanigher long to run out of ideas, though; by the end of the book he has Wonder Girl traveling through time, I'm guessing because he'd already driven home the fact that Diana is strong enough to balance a reverse-human pyramid but didn't have anything else to use. Okay okay, I'm being somewhat unfair - this is the first collection of Silver Age Wonder Woman comics, freshly rebooted after the implementation of the Comics Code Authority (1958/9). Parents across America were freaking out, and suddenly Wonder Woman is wearing ballet slippers instead of boots. When you strip Moulton's original bondage romp of the violence, Nazis, and space kangaroos, it isn't all that different from this sanitized Silver Age stuff - but there's much less to work with. Thankfully, Steve Trevor is still around. It was interesting to consider the reversal of gender roles in these stories, with Steve taking over the part, traditionally assigned the female character, of the lover trying to hold the hero(ine) back; he really wants Wonder Woman to marry her, but her mission comes first. But dude, 520 pages of the same thing over, and over, and over again, is taxing even for a Wonder Woman fan. And there are three more volumes of this! I feel strangely compelled to continue reading but I'm not expecting much. And man, I never thought that I'd say this, but...I miss kinky, inappropriate Golden Age Wonder Woman.
August 12, 2009
I read Showcase Presents: Justice League (vol 1) at the same as this. This book made Justice League look like a masterpiece. Kanigher is a lazy writer. He recycles the same ideas and themes over and over. The repeated themes include:
Duplicate Wonderwomen -- Robots, disguised amazons, alternate dimensions duplicates.
Giants -- From other dimensions or due to shrinkage.
Sea creatures -- This might as well been a damn Aquaman comic. The vast majority of these stories have Wonderwoman fighting invariably giant sea creatures. Whales, giant squids, cannibal clams, giant sharks, giant swordfish, sea centaurs... WTF!?
As an example of Kanigher's laziness, in one story Wonderwoman is forced to reveal her secret identity (Diana Prince) but hints she has a plan to cover it up again. In the end, her plan is to just pretend nothing happened and goes back to being Diana Prince. And somehow this works! Everyone just suddenly decides to disregard what they witnessed with their own eyes. When Superman pulls this crap the writers come up with a zany way for him to wriggle out it.
My 3 year old daughter enjoyed some of the stories about Wondergirl.
This just wasn't as enjoyable a read as the other Showcases I've read.
Duplicate Wonderwomen -- Robots, disguised amazons, alternate dimensions duplicates.
Giants -- From other dimensions or due to shrinkage.
Sea creatures -- This might as well been a damn Aquaman comic. The vast majority of these stories have Wonderwoman fighting invariably giant sea creatures. Whales, giant squids, cannibal clams, giant sharks, giant swordfish, sea centaurs... WTF!?
As an example of Kanigher's laziness, in one story Wonderwoman is forced to reveal her secret identity (Diana Prince) but hints she has a plan to cover it up again. In the end, her plan is to just pretend nothing happened and goes back to being Diana Prince. And somehow this works! Everyone just suddenly decides to disregard what they witnessed with their own eyes. When Superman pulls this crap the writers come up with a zany way for him to wriggle out it.
My 3 year old daughter enjoyed some of the stories about Wondergirl.
This just wasn't as enjoyable a read as the other Showcases I've read.
August 28, 2014
Fascinating little slice of ancient pop culture from the time when Paradise Island had Time Travel, Spaceships, and all aspects of future technology.
The strange thing from a modern perspective is how isolated it all is, there is no mention of other superheroes and all the villains seem to be under the impression that only Wonder Woman exists in this world and that all it takes is to get rid of her and the world is for the taking. Other oddities are the many times that Wonder Woman talks directly to the reader, introducing her fan club and asking readers what they want to see in future issues. And nobody ever seems to wonder what happened to her teenage love interest Mer boy now that she is dating Steve Trevor (who spends most of his time either being rescued or asking Wonder woman to marry him).
The strange thing from a modern perspective is how isolated it all is, there is no mention of other superheroes and all the villains seem to be under the impression that only Wonder Woman exists in this world and that all it takes is to get rid of her and the world is for the taking. Other oddities are the many times that Wonder Woman talks directly to the reader, introducing her fan club and asking readers what they want to see in future issues. And nobody ever seems to wonder what happened to her teenage love interest Mer boy now that she is dating Steve Trevor (who spends most of his time either being rescued or asking Wonder woman to marry him).
March 7, 2014
Reading the Kanigher era of Wonder Woman, I must say he gives us a stronger WW than I'd thought from occasional reprints. Wonder Woman faces off against alien invaders, foreign terrorists and the occasional super-villain while Steve keeps trying to get her to quit the crimefighting and tie the knot. In backup stories, Wonder Woman's teenage self dates a merman and protects the Amazons. Kanigher's style of super-hero story probably isn't to everyone's taste, but I had fun.
January 3, 2015
I really enjoyed these classic Wonder Woman comics.. I found myself getting a little annoyed by Steve Trevor constantly calling Wonder Woman, "Angel," but other than that, I thought it was a fun read.
September 26, 2012
There is an certain charm to these preposterous yarns. The worst part? That Wonder Girl kept wasting her time on that tool Mer-Boy.
March 22, 2023
I am wondering why they call Wonder Woman's plane, Robot Plane. I thought it was invisible plane. Maybe people can still see her plane in book 1 and book 2. For some reason I liked Book 2 better.
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