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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 5

As she lifts the champagne bottle, Diana realizes it’s too heavy, and so uses her super-senses to deduce that it actually contains a high explosive. Thinking quickly, she uses her strength to tear the bottle from its ribbon and throw it too far, shouting that it slipped out of her hand. The bomb lands on a nearby shoal, and the resulting explosion lets everyone know that a horrible disaster has just been averted.

Offshore, we see a boat with Nazi spies watching the launch through binoculars, and with them is an American ensign. Back at the sub, it’s realized that Ensign Martin has gone missing. He’s instantly suspected of being the saboteur, but Steve insists the man is both his friend and loyal to the Navy. They get another bottle and Diana successfully christens the sub “The Octopus.” It heads out on its maiden voyage, but soon the engines fail and the craft is stuck on the muddy bottom. Steve catches sight of an SOS flashlight signal coming from his friend Martin, trapped about the Nazi ship, but not realizing Diana saw it too, tells her to return to the Colonel. Instead, she changes into her costume, commandeers a speed boat, grabs the captain, and they both head out to where the signal originated.

On board the vessel, Martin tries to stop the Nazis as they give the order to attack the sub’s air supply. He’s quickly knocked out, though, and they tie him up with weights and throw him overboard. Thankfully, Wonder Woman spots him and dives into the water, rescuing the man. He explains to Steve that he was attacked by the spies, who then delivered the bomb while disguised as him. When they finally reach the ship, Wonder Woman deflects a few bullets, then jumps on board. Steve follows, and they make quick work of the saboteurs. But when Martin climbs onto the ship, the Germans think they’re seeing a ghost and dive overboard. The Allies realize there’s too many for the three of them to catch, but luckily a boat of girls from Holliday College, headed by Etta Candy, happens to be nearby, so Wonder Woman flashes her silver bracelets in the sunlight to send them a message. The girls quickly round up the spies, and Etta is delighted to realize her box of candy tastes like saltwater taffy after a dip in the ocean.

Back on the ship, they intercept a radio transmission from a Nazi sub saying they’ve trapped the Octopus and are going to pump it full of carbon dioxide to knock out its crew. Wonder Woman jumps overboard and swims down to the sub, where a crewman in a diving suit has found and detached the carbon dioxide line. He’s attacked by a Nazi boarding party, so Wonder Woman gets him to the surface, then dives back to investigate the Nazi sub. She’s caught by a robot arm and brought into the ship, where she quickly smashes the controls and starts tearing it apart from the inside. But instead of leaving the men to drown like they’d planned to do to the Americans, she seals them in a compartment, with the promise that she’ll send a rescue crew. The amazing Amazon returns to the surface to see the Octopus floating free, now that the Nazi sub’s magnetic trap has been destroyed. The issue ends with Etta and her gang bringing in their captives, the Octopus being deemed a success for withstanding the enemy attack, the trapped Nazis getting rescued and taken away at gunpoint, and Steve Trevor’s head too full of thoughts of Wonder Woman to notice Diana Prince sitting right next to him.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 6: Powerplay

Inside the missile control room, Steve finds Tolliver about to turn the key and launch the nuke. He blows the man away with his machine gun, saying he wished he didn’t have to, but as he reaches to deactivate the launch, his hand is grabbed by the smoking, melting form of General Tolliver.

Wonder Woman awakens in world of pure blackness, then in a blast of light and thunder Ares appears to answer her challenge. When she asks why he’s doing all this, he answers that he’s fulfilling ancient prophecy and keeping up the family tradition of a son killing his father and becoming more powerful than him—Uranus, Cronus, Zeus, and now Ares. He shows Diana visions of Steve fighting Tolliver’s animated corpse, the war god’s power causing violence around the globe, and his Russian followers preparing to launch a nuke from their own captured missile base. He then shows her her home, and we see that the plants on Paradise Island have died, the building are starting to crumble, and all the Amazons are withered with age. Hippolyte says she fears Diana has failed, but Philippus points out that if the princess were dead, they’d be dead too, and while there’s still life, there’s hope. These words bolster Diana and she tries to attack, but Ares easily grabs her by the throat and raises her over his head. Hoping he can be defeated by his own power, Diana pulls out Harmonia’s amulet and shoves it in his face, which angers him, but at least makes him lose his grip. He surrounds her with flames, then shows her Etta, Julia, and Michaelis, who are too busy deactivating the base’s security system so the American army can get in to notice the fallen soldiers behind them rise up as a smoking, melting zombie army. Michaelis realizes at the last moment, and yells to the women to get down before being riddled with bullets.

Once again we go to the underworld, where Athena is telling Artemis they must have faith in Diana. Persephone approaches, saying that their journey across the River Styx can’t wait any longer, but the two goddesses say Diana is still alive, so they’re going to stay where they are.

Still surrounded by fire, Diana slowly stands up and grabs the lasso forged from the girdle of Gaea. Ares tries to blast her, but she takes off, swinging the loop over her head and bringing it down around the war god’s shoulders. The lasso forces Ares to see what will happen if his plan succeeds: the world covered in nuclear fire, and anybody not wearing two-million sunblock has a real bad day as all flesh and bone turns to ash. Ares has one moment of triumph, then is left completely alone on a burnt-up, lifeless world. Confronted by the consequences of his actions, the god of war weeps as, without any worshipers, his power fades and his palace—and ultimately Ares himself—crumbles to dust. His vision over, Diana tells the war god that he’s got to stop this before it’s too late. Ares agrees that balance must be restored, and we see his power cause the missile launch to fail and Tolliver, and we’re told his Russian counterpart, is reduced to a smoking pile of bones. Now in possession of the amulet, Ares vows that, while mankind’s bloodlust still gives him strength, he will no longer actively seek their complete annihilation. He charges Diana to teach the world to save themselves from their own destructive power, then sends her back, saying that if she fails, mankind will hear from him again.

Back at the American missile base, the Army men are cleaning up and General Hillary gets a report from a medic, who says as soon as they got past the defenses, Tolliver’s men were immolated. The only other casualty is Colonel Michaelis, who died saving Lieutenant Candy and Professor Kapatelis. Suddenly, Steve comes out of the control room, crying for help and carrying the unconscious form of Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 6: Thrones

In the sewer, Lennox has been talking with the armored figure with the candle crown, who says the British man interests him. Lennox refers to the god as Lord Hades, but he says to call him Hell instead, ‘cus you know, that’s not a complete misunderstanding of the Greek concept of the underworld. Their conversation is purposely vague, with Hell asking if Lennox is sure “he’ll” back down, which he is, and asking what the man wants from him, to which Lennox pulls out a cigarette and says he just wants a light.

Meanwhile, Wonder Woman has tried to convince Poseidon that a deal can be struck with Hades, but he’s NOT in the mood. He flings the Amazon back to Tower Bridge, and in the air, she spots the centaurs closing in on Zola. Wonder Woman lands, rips up a flagpole, and uses it to simultaneously pole vault over and momentarily stun a charging centaur. She apparently kills the next one with her bare hands, as all we see is Zola hiding under a truck⁠—no wait, we’re in the UK, so I guess that’d be a lorry⁠—and then a splash of blood, followed by Wonder Woman lifting the vehicle over her head, both arms stained red up to the bicep. She tosses it at the remaining centaur, the grabs Zola and jumps over the side of the bridge onto the tail of the departing sea god.

Exiting the sewer, Lennox and Hell meet up with Hermes and are quickly joined by Poseidon. Wonder Woman, still carrying Zola, jumps down to join the conversation. Hell, who insists on calling Zeus “Heaven” and Poseidon “Sea,” asks the lord of the ocean what he thinks of the thunder god’s children’s proposal. He was too busy ranting to hear the whole thing, so Wonder Woman explains: by day Poseidon will be king, by night Hades, and they’ll share Hera as queen. How this is supposed to work when the round globe means it’ll always be day and night somewhere I don’t know, but let’s not think about that right now. Poseidon thinks the idea is preposterous, while Hell seems intrigued, but Hera, appearing in a flash of lightning, is having none of it. The gods bicker for a bit before Lennox, bending to light his cigarette with the flame from Hell’s crown, breaks off a candle and tosses it to Wonder Woman. Hermes throws the Amazon his caduceus and she disappears in a ball of blue light. An enrages Hera teleports in a huge explosion, which Lennox has to shield Zola from with his indestructible body. The queen of the gods is too late, though, arriving on Mount Olympus a moment after Wonder Woman has thrown the candle, still lit, on to the portal the gods use to watch the mortal world. The portal cracks and goes black, and Hera vows to destroy Wonder Woman. Referring to the magical transformation of her mother and sisters, the Amazon says she already has, and so Wonder Woman will now spend her time making the queen of the gods regret it. She activates the caduceus again and disappears, just as Hera tries to grab her

She reappears back at the shore of the Thames, having been gone only a moment. Poseidon is amused that she tricked them, while Hell is decidedly more annoyed and takes off down the sewer tunnel. The god of the sea asks if this was all about destroying Hera’s ability to watch Earth, but Wonder Woman says it was to protect Zola and her child. The two demigods and Hermes watch as Poseidon swims away, then turn to see Zola headed into the sewer tunnel. The mortal woman is amazed to see what looks like her dead mother beckoning to her, but then the figure distorts and shoot out black tendrils that wrap themselves around Zola and drag her down the tunnel. Wonder Woman runs after her, only to be confronted by an image of Hell, who says they had a deal, and she must keep her end of the bargain or die.

Wonder Woman season 1 episode 5: The Feminum Mystique: Part 2

At the deserted warehouse when the Nazis are keeping Dru, Peter Knight remarks that this “Wonder Woman” reminds him of a girl her met, though obviously she’s not the same person. To test whether their captive really is Wonder Woman, Knight, hiding a bulletproof vest under his shirt, is thrown into her cell as if he’d been kidnapped. Captain Radl fires at him, but Dru blocks the shot with her bracelet. She then tries to escape but is quickly taken out with chloroform and her bracelets are removed. There’s a quick scene of Diana telling Steve that Knight didn’t show up to the airfield that morning, then we see him in the Nazi hideout, doing experiments on Dru’s bracelets. He can’t even tell if the metal is natural or an alloy, so Radl decides they’ll have to get “Wonder Woman” to tell them where they came from. Knight wonders if, since that girl she reminds him of had a schoolgirl crush on him, maybe he can use his charms to trick their captive. When she finally awakens, he’s “passed out” on the cell floor next to her. She rouses him, and he says they can escape with her strength and ability to block bullets. She says she can’t without her now-missing Feminum bracelets, and when he asks what Feminum is she lets it slip that the only source for it in the world is the mine on Paradise Island. Realizing she wasn’t supposed to let anyone know about Paradise Island, she says she’s revealed too much, but Knight says she hasn’t since he doesn’t know where it is. As Radl listens in, pouring over a map, she says that no one can find Paradise Island unless they know where it is first, since light refraction keeps it hidden. Knight says it must be beautiful there, then leads Dru on to give a ridiculously detailed description of the night’s sky, which allows Radl to pinpoint the location. He pulls Knight out of the cell, then shows him that according to the charts there’s nothing at those coordinates. The American is still convinced, though, so Radl agrees to radio Berlin the information but keep their prisoner alive in case she’s lying, while Knight will return to the XPJ-1.

At the War Department, after learning that Diana still can’t find a trace of her sister, Steve receives an intercepted German transmission that originated off the coast of Florida. They’re ordering a land attack in the middle of nowhere, but Diana recognizes the coordinates as the location of Paradise Island. She tells Steve she’s changed her mind on taking some leave, then rushes home in the invisible plane. She greets her mother and finds out that Dru isn’t there. She tells the queen about the Nazi invasion headed their way, somehow knowing they’re after the Feminum mine. Hippolyta puts her in charge of the defense force, though not until after naively asking if they can reason with the Nazis. Hoping to avoid alarming the entire island, Diana recruits a small group of Amazons, who for some reason think that being attacked by Nazis sounds like fun, and the queen insists on coming along as well.

Back at the XPJ-1 testing facility, we get a quick scene of Knight introducing Steve to the plane’s new chief mechanic, Harvey Manning—who we recognize as Lieutenant Wertz in disguise. Then it’s back to Paradise Island, where the invasion force, lead by Captain Radl, is storming the beach. Diana finds her lookouts playing children’s games instead of, you know, looking out—and chides them that their negligence could ruin all their plans. Her sisters are more interested in getting to meet men, again missing the whole “Nazi invasion force” thing. Unsurprisingly, when the German actually arrive the air-headed Amazons, while strong, are easily taken out by a few smoke bombs.

There is some good news, however. Back in the States, Drusilla is able to escape and reclaim her bracelets. She calls the War Department, learning that Diana is on leave and Steve is at the airport. She heads there in civilian garb, claiming to be Steve’s niece. She explains she was taken prisoner, but he doesn’t believe her. Dru sadly tells him Knight was captured and killed, but Steve tell her he’s been at the airfield this entire time, except for taking one morning off. Learning that Diana went home looking for her, the teenager says Knight must be a spy. She tells Steve to confront him about Radl and where he was on his morning off, and when he does the engineer tries to run, but is swiftly caught. Dru then flies her own invisible plane back home.

We see that the Nazis have taken over Paradise Island and are holding the queen hostage to force the Amazons to mine the Feminum. Hippolyta tells Diana that she must lead their people against Radl and his men, even if it means risking the queen’s life. As Wonder Woman is transporting the ore to the beach, Drusilla reveals herself to her sister and quickly knocks out the guard. She tells Diana that she accidentally revealed the location of Paradise Island, and Diana says it’s not her fault, even though it totally is. Saying there are ten Nazis holding them captive, Wonder Woman devises a plan to get the Amazons’ bracelets back.

Taking advantage of the fact that the men can’t tell them apart because of their similar costumes, Dru takes Diana’s place at the mine and lets the other miners know the plan. Two of the Amazons start a fake fight, drawing away the guards so Wonder Woman can retrieve the stolen bracelets.

Wonder Woman tries to pass the bracelets out secretly, but the Nazis find their fallen comrade and sound the alarm. Dru takes the bag of bracelets as Diana attacks, her sisters following suit. But when victory seems assured, Radle appears and threatens Hippolyta with a gun, commanding her subjects to take off the bracelets or the old woman will die. Annoyed by the name-calling, the queen has Diana throw her a bracelet, which she holds up as a shield in front of Radl’s gun, telling him to either shoot and risk the bullet bouncing back and hitting him, or admit defeat by an old woman. He smartly drops his firearm.

Their enemy defeated, the queen hugs her daughters, saying that wasn’t really bad after all, at which point I yell at my TV “WASN’T THAT BAD!!?!” Back at the palace, Hippolyta tells her daughters that the men will be given a drug to make them forget the last week, then put out to sea in their own boats for the American navy, notified by Diana, to pick up. When Dru points out the Nazis know the location of Paradise Island and may send more forces, the queen says Radl told her they weren’t sure if her information was correct, and with the invasion force captured and memoryless, they’ll think she lied.

Diana learns from Dru that Peter Knight was a spy, so before Radl’s memory is wiped she questions him with the golden lasso. He reluctantly tells her that Knight was found out and captured, but Lieutenant Wertz, disguised as the chief mechanic, plans to take Steve’s place and fly the XPJ-1 to a secret Nazi landing field. Diana and Dru head to America to stop him, though Dru is ordered to return home afterward.

At the airfield, we see Wertz knock Steve out in the locker room and head to the XPJ-1, his pilot’s helmet and goggles hiding his features. As the plane is taxiing, Wonder Woman runs up asking for the chief mechanic, but no one knows where he is. She rushes to the XPJ-1, grabs a wing, and starts spinning the plane in circles. After a recovered Steve appears, Wertz jumps out and starts running, Just when it seems he’s gotten away, he finds himself confronted by Dru.

After a successful test flight, Steve learns Wertz turned himself in, rambling about a teenage girl as strong as ten men. Diana Prince shows up along with her sister, whom Steve scolds for running off, and the episode ends with the three celebrating at a soda fountain.

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 4: School for Spies

Meanwhile Darnell tells Captain Trevor about a report he got from Eve Brown on her first day at Holliday College. She was cornered by a member of the Gestapo Gang and told she was being recruited into their school of espionage whether she wanted to or not, and to meet him that night at nine. Steve goes to the college and tells Eve to keep her appointment so they can find this espionage school, but she’s prevented from doing so by some hazing from her Beeta Lamda sorority sisters. When she doesn’t show up, Steve confronts the Gestapo agents himself. One gets away, so he takes off in pursuit. Eve finally manages to escape her captors, but when Etta and the other Holliday girls go looking for her, they see Steve chasing the Nazi spy. This quickly turns into a car chase, with the agent stealing Steve’s car, Steve and Etta each grabbing police motorcycles, and the Holliday Girls following in some old jalopies.

We next get a scene, and it’s not clear if this is currently happening or if it’s a flashback, of Carla Swanson being invited to visit Baroness von Gunther. She tries to recruit the secretary to the school of espionage, drugging her tea when she refuses [Editor’s note: hey look, the first instance of poisoned tea!], and saying Carla will either be her slave or die.

Back at the office Diana asks Colonel Darnell about the Baroness. He says she’s an Austrian royalist who fled when the Nazis invaded, and that there’s no way she’s a spy. Diana, still suspicious, wants to meet her, so Darnell says he’ll take her to the costume ball the Baroness is throwing that evening. Diana dresses as Wonder Woman with a cape and mask. This is apparently enough to fool the Baroness, who doesn’t recognize her. Diana introduces herself as Wonder Woman and pretends to be on the Baroness’ side, telling her that she’s suspected and she’d better move the girls she has kidnapped. She has her men kidnap Wonder Woman and take her to an abandoned coal mine, unaware that the Amazon is allowing herself to be captured. There Wonder Woman finds Carla, already brainwashed by a combination of drugs and hypnosis. She realizes Von Gunther is the one who’s been killing women who refused to participate in her school, so she agrees to become one of the Baroness’ slaves in order to have a chance to rescue the girls. She allows chains to be welded to her bracelets and is given a tour of the school, noting its cruelty. Once back in her cell with Carla, she uses the plot convenience—sorry, I mean “psychological knowledge” of the Amazons—to restore her cellmate’s mind. But when she goes to break her chains she realizes her super-strength has left her. Suddenly, she remembers her mother telling her that she if she ever allowed a man to weld chains onto her bracelets she would become weak, which seems like the kind of oddly-specific thing you wouldn’t be too likely to forget, but apparently it slipped her mind.

The next morning Steve arrives at the mine, having followed the Gestapo agent all night. He tries to sneak inside, but is captured and brought to Von Gunther. She leads him off to be executed, but as they pass her students he and Wonder Woman recognize each other. He says that together they can take out the Nazis, but Wonder Woman, who knows that no man can be allowed to know the secret of her strength, tells him she can’t. The Baroness orders them both executed, but when the firing squad pulls the trigger Wonder Woman leaps in front of Steve, blocking all the bullets with her bracelets in such a way that the chains are cut off. Her strength restored, she and Steve attack their captors and are joined by Etta and her friends, who followed Steve and overwhelmed the guards on their way in. The freed students thank Steve, who gives the credit to Wonder Woman, and the Amazon calls the Colonel asking for a day off, claiming the party wore her out. The issue ends with Wonder Woman contemplating how foolish it was to let a man weld chains onto her bracelets, and that in this world of men, a girl needs to watch herself.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 5: The Ares “Assault”

Beneath Mount Olympus, we see that the sun god has put himself into a state of dreamless sleep in order to survive the voyage to oblivion. He’s loaded onto a giant boat made to look like it’s made of bone, as the other gods talk about their trip. The plan is for Charon to steer the craft across the river Styx to a place where the gods are powerless. They say that it’s the inevitable passing of an age, but Artemis and Athena want to stay and fight. The goddess of wisdom says that they must trust in Diana, and that, for the moment, they should wait.

Next we see news reports of warfare and violence breaking out all over the world. Tensions between the US and USSR are rising to a boiling point, and General Tolliver claims to have proof that Colonel Trevor is a Soviet spy.

At the Kapatelis house, Diane is treating Etta’ bumped head. Apparently Colonel Michaelis startled her and she slipped, banging her head on the car as she fell. He apologizes to Steve for following him, but he’s there to help in any way he can. Julia shows the visitors the talisman, saying it’s at the center of things, and Etta pulls out the file she found on the Ares Project.

Meanwhile, in the netherworld, a triumphant Deimos, watched by his jealous brother, use the other half of the amulet to control the armies of the two world superpowers, causing them to gather their forces for a cause they don’t truly understand.

The next morning, after working through the night, Julia has finally decoded the meaning of the amulet’s inscription. It turns out to be an odd geometric pattern with a picture of a vulture as the focal point. Diana studies it and, glancing in a mirror, realizes it’s the reverse of the chart Colonel Trevor drew on a world map. They compare the pattern to a map of Ancient Greece and realize that it lines up with the most violent battles of the era, with the vulture marking Mount Olympus. On the modern map, the same points correspond to nuclear bases and other offensive outposts, and they decide that the vulture, now in the upper American Midwest, must show the center of the Ares Project. Michaelis calls General Hillary, but the general is interrupted by a report that one of their bases has been taken over by rogue American troops, and they’ve prepped the missiles. We get a few panels of the attack and see that it’s being lead by none other than General Tolliver. Michaelis tells Steve, and they realize the same thing is probably happening in Russia. They’ve got to get there and stop Tolliver from starting World War III, but Diana says that’s her job. In halting English, she explains that by pressing her half of the talisman to a mirror, it will be whole and lead her to Ares. Everyone insists on going with her, and arms themselves with Michaelis’ surplus weapons. Etta asks if Steve is sure, and he says for some reason he trusts Diana—in fact she reminds him of his mother!

When everyone’s ready, Wonder Woman places the amulet on the glass and a portal opens up, transporting them to the netherworld. They’re greeted by Deimos, still wielding his half of the talisman. The snakes on his headdress come to life, attacking Wonder Woman. As the Americans open fire, Phobos comes to his brother’s defense, causing their deepest fears to become real: Etta is buried alive under a pile of rubble, Steve is attacked by a giant spider, Julia starts to drown in a flood, and Michaelis is confronted with a house-sized cat. Wonder Woman takes out the monstrous feline with one punch, saying the threats are only as real as they make them, and that a true Amazon knows no fear. Michaelis yells at Steve to help the others, confronting Steve’s nightmare himself. Wonder woman quickly rescues Julia from the flood while Steve digs Etta out. Suddenly, Deimos’ beard becomes a mass of serpents that wrap themselves around Wonder Woman. With no other choice, she pulls off her tiara and flings it at the god, its razor-sharp edges cleaning severing his head from his body. Finally free, she retrieves the other half of the amulet while Phobos flees, swearing his brother will be avenged. (Or shouldn’t that be that his brother will have justice? *Legal* justice?) Everyone regroups, and Wonder Woman and Julia combines the two halves, which yet again transports them. They find themselves at the missile base, surrounded by soldiers with guns raised. Tolliver says they were warned they would be coming, and that they’ll be executed, but first they get to bear witness to his master’s triumph. He points at a missile in the silo, about to launch, but suddenly it’s surrounded by swirling lights. When they clear, the missile has transformed into a giant figure in a midnight-blue robe and massive helmet—the god of war himself: Ares.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 5: Lourdes

A day or two later, Wonder Woman (again in street clothes), Zola, and a still-disguised Hermes are at an outdoor café. Wonder Woman says she needs to stay close to protect the pregnant woman and injured god, but Hermes says Zola being near a known daughter of Zeus could be dangerous if Hera decides to confront her. A man with close-cropped hair, a dark brown leather jacket, and bandages on his nose and fingers approaches their table. He sits down uninvited, saying he knows who they are and calling Wonder Woman “daughter of Zeus” and Hermes “messenger.” Introducing himself as Lennox, he comments that it must have been a shock for Wonder Woman to learn both that she had a father and that he’s now dead, then points out that with Zeus gone his brothers will likely be vying for the throne, saying that the gods can be downright evil. Diana says she’s dealt with evil before, and Lennox claims he has too, but those were just men. This is shaping up to be something he’s tried to avoid for over eighty years, which is odd seeing as he looks about fifty years too young for that to be true. Wonder Woman points this out, and he reveals that he’s also a part of the Olympian family.

We cut to Wonder Woman and Zola walking across Tower Bridge. They discus the implications of Lennox being family, and Wonder Woman points out that Zola is her aunt, or will be once the baby is born, and Zola confides she thinks the child will be a boy. Wonder Woman then contemplates the story Lennox told them: that he realized he was immortal when he survived a bombing during the Blitzkrieg, and that he spent the intervening decades in the army as an unkillable soldier.

Back in the present, we see Lennox enter a riverside sewer tunnel as Hermes waits outside. From the bridge, Wonder Woman and Zola hear Big Ben ring out six o’clock, the time Lennox told them to wait for. Sure enough, a quintet of hippocampi appear, and so Wonder Woman removes her dress, revealing her costume underneath, and jumps down onto the shore. A massive toad/whale/octopus-looking sea creature rises up out of the water directly in front of her, and Wonder Woman asks an audience with Poseidon. The sea god recognizes her as Zeus’ daughter, and says he has no quarrel with her and that she should get out of his way. He says that now that Zeus is gone, he plans to claim the heavens for himself. As he speaks, we watch Lennox walking through the sewer, until out of a waterfall springs a giant three-headed dog to attack him. As he falls to the ground, out of the same waterfall strides a man in armor, lit candles on top of his head with dripped wax covering his face above the nose, who commands the dog to get down. Back at the Thames, Wonder Woman tells Poseidon that Hera has claimed the heavens. Enraged, Poseidon grabs her up in his tentacles, while Zola and a crowd of shocked tourists watch, unaware of the two armed centaurs who have appeared behind them.

Wonder Woman season 1 episode 4: The Feminum Mystique: Part 1

An hour later, Major Trevor and Yeoman Prince arrive at an airfield. They meet Peter Knight, the man who build the XPJ-1, which uses a new jet engine from England. Diana’s surprised that a plane can fly without a propeller, and Steve tells her that the Nazis are developing a similar design, but are at least eight months behind the Allies. The two Nazis watch the hanger through binoculars, and the newcomer, Lieutenant Wertz, tells how he’s certain he can fly the plane, as he’s studied plans of the controls. As Steve approaches the plane in his flight suit, two military policemen in a car throw a grenade at some barrels of fuel, causing a distraction, then pull up to the plane and start shooting. As people dive for cover, Wertz and Radl rush to the plane, and the pilot climbs in and starts taxiing down the runway. Diana spins into her costume and blocks a few bullets before taking out the gunmen, but she’s too late to catch the plane. Steve gets to the control tower and radios General Blankenship at the War Department to that Code Z is in effect. The general presses a button, causing the XPJ-1 to malfunction and explode.

Back in Washington, Steve tells Diana that they’d suspected the Nazis would try to capture the plane, so they planned Code Z to make it look like the XPJ-1 was a failure. At the Nazi intelligence headquarters Lieutenant Wertz, who managed to eject before the plane exploded and was picked up by a Nazi submarine, reports that his co-conspirators were all kidnapped, except for Captain Radl. We then see Radl hiding with a forest ranger, who takes him to a safe house where he’s able to radio Berlin and tell them about Wonder Woman’s bullet-reflecting bracelets. His commander has heard report of this woman before, but thought they were exaggerations. It’d decided they should capture Wonder Woman and learning what her bracelets are made of, so they can use the metal to create bulletproof tanks, planes, and submarines.

Back on Paradise Island, we see Queen Hippolyta overseeing some Olympic-style competitions: archery, gymnastics, foot racing, etc. She watches her teenage daughter in the games and says how she’s growing more like her older sister every day. She asks the Princess Drusilla join to her, complementing her progress, but also giving a Queen Victoria “we are not amused” reference when she mentions a prank the princess played on another Amazon. But the reason she called the girl is that she thinks it’s time Diana return to Paradise Island and resume her duties as heir. She wants Dru to travel to America and bring her sister back.

In Washington, General Blankenship tells Steve that a new XPJ-1 engine has arrived from England. He wants Steve to tell Peter Knight that he’ll need to install the engine in another airplane frame for another test flight in five days. Steve tells Diana to schedule a dinner for him with Knight so they can discuss the XPJ-1, and she volunteers to host the meeting at her apartment.

Arriving at her apartment with an armful of groceries, Diana find the door ajar and so spins into her costume to investigate. She finds Drusilla in the kitchen and is overjoyed to see her sister. Dru tells Diana of her mother’s wishes, but Diana explains about the Nazis, and how if she doesn’t aid the Americans they will enslave the whole world, including Paradise Island. The teenager says Diana needs to convince the queen, so Diana decides to let her sister stay for a few days so she can see how important Diana’s work is and explain it to their mother. She explains her secret identity and how she works for Major Trevor. Drusilla is surprised her sister works for a man, giving almost the same “he tells you what to do and you do it” line from the Wonder Woman movie trailer, but she’s also excited by the prospect of meeting them, and Diana tells her how there will be two tonight at dinner.

That evening Dru’s misunderstanding of American social behavior is made evident with her talking about hunting with a crossbow and telling her sister “I like men!” The guys laugh it off and talk about how the new engine will arrive tomorrow, and for some reason are only slightly uncomfortable discussing military secrets in front of a teenager. The next morning Captain Radl exchanges pass phrases to gain access to an apartment, and we learn that Knight is actually a Nazi spy. He tells Radl about the back-up XPJ-1 and the captain brings up Wonder Woman. Knight says she’s obviously connected to Major Trevor’s group, and they hatch a plan to kidnap General Blankenship in order to draw her out.

Diana takes her sister to work with her, where she meets the general. He’s evidently gotten the teen a security pass. He offers to take Dru with him to a meeting so he can show her Mount Vernon, and Diana agrees. On the drive, they’re ambushed and the general is taken by Radl, who lets it slip that they’re taking him to a ranger station so the abandoned teenager can get the word to Wonder Woman. She finds a phone at a repair shop, but the telephone operator doesn’t believe her about needing to contact the War Department, so she learns the location of the nearest ranger station from an auto mechanic and takes off. Remembering their mother teaching Diana how to quickly change outfits, she spins around and in a flash of light is wearing her own Wonder Girl costume: a red swimsuit top with white and red stars, blue starless swimsuit bottoms, red boots, and a tiara, belt, lasso, and bracelets that match her sister’s. Once inside, she takes out a couple of men but is quickly subdued with chloroform.

Back at the repair shop, Steve and Diana are investigating the general’s abandoned car. The mechanic tells them about seeing Dru and directing her to the ranger station. The place is abandoned when they get there, but they find Blankenship tied up in the bathroom. He doesn’t know where Dru is, and Steve suggests the teen went back to Diana’s apartment. The general mentions how he heard a fight, but then the place was silent until they arrived. But when Diana returns to find her apartment empty and no note, she worriedly calls Steve. He suggests Drusilla is exploring the city and Diana agrees.

Meanwhile, the Nazis are hiding out in a deserted industrial area with Dru, still unconscious, locked in a cell. Radl mentions she looks different than he remembers, but says there can’t be two Wonder Women. He radios Berlin, who want proof their captive is who they say, so he enters the cell carrying a loaded pistol. Dru gets up and quickly realizes he’s mistaken her for her sister. She puts on a brave face, but the episode ends with Radl about to test her powers.

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 3: Wonder Woman: A Spy in the Office

Diana meets Steve’s secretary, Lila Brown, who is suspicious of her new co-worker because she cheated in her interview by using what Diana calls “Amazonian” shorthand. When Diana’s nurse’s training is put to use collecting health reports on the office’s women, Lila is resentful—until during her checkup, when a messenger tells Miss Brown that a man, asking to see her, wants “that envelope.” Lila says she doesn’t have it, but Diana, who is taking her blood pressure at the time, sees her blood pressure jump and concludes that the secretary feels guilty about the envelope. Diana finds the letter in the patient’s clothes, and after subduing an angry Lila with a knock-out punch, discovers that it’s a message from someone code-named X-46 to another spy, telling the train route that Captain Trevor will take while carrying a secret military formula. A reawakened Lila insists she just found the envelope and promises to explain everything to Diana after work, but before Steve leaves. Diana agrees, but the Captain takes an earlier train, and an anonymous tip tells Colonel Darnell that spies are planning to intercept him. The woman on the phone also claimed that the Colonel’s secretary is also a spy and is carrying a secret message, so Diana is searched and the letter from X-46 is found. Dina is put under arrest, but her rank as a nurse means she’s confined to her quarters, which allows her to change into her Wonder Woman costume and escape through the window. She then abducts Miss Brown and takes her to a secluded park bench, demanding answers.

Lila tells her that she’s not a spy, but her younger sister Eve fell in love with a man named Gross who turned out to be the Nazi agent X-46. Not realizing this, Eve unintentionally gave him secret information, and he used it to blackmail her into spying for him and delivering his message. Lila found and took the letter, refusing to give it back. The two women then race to Gross’ speed boat, where Wonder Woman persuades him to talk by dunking him in the Potomac. He says the plan changed after his message was intercepted: Eve is on the train with Captain Trevor and will lead him into a trap in Baltimore, where Gross’ men will take the secret formula and meet him on a yacht in the Chesapeake Bay. Wonder Woman sends a mental radio signal to Holliday College, where we see Etta Candy showing off something that looks like an alarm clock that the family from My Big Fat Greek Wedding would own: a white dome with a radio dial on it, supported by Greek columns and with a wire running to a replica of Wonder Woman’s headband. It’s a brain wave radio Wonder Woman gave her so she could contact Etta whenever she needed. With it, Wonder Woman tells Etta to take some girls with her to intercept Captain Trevor and Eve in Baltimore, and capture the spy. They arrive just in time to catch Eve, who lead Trevor to the Nazis before running off with the dropped formula, claiming to a passer-by that they’re hazing the woman as part of her initiation into the Beeta Lamba sorority.

Meanwhile, the Nazis have taken Steve to their yacht and are slowly lowering a massive anchor onto his chest in an attempt to get him to talk. Wonder Woman arrives in the nick of time, taking out the spies and rescuing Steve before he’s crushed to death. She, Steve, and Lila then head to Holliday College, where they find Etta and her friends still “initiating” Eve. Wonder Woman yells for them to stop, and Eve gives the Captain back the secret formula, saying she loves her country, but was scared and didn’t realize what she was doing.

Back at the Army Intelligence office, Colonel Darnell apologies to Diana Prince for arresting her and asks what he can do to make it up to her. She recommends that Eve be released and allowed to attend Holliday College, where she can get an education. Once again everyone congratulate Steve on stopping the spies—Darnell specifically saying he must be a superman—while Steve insists it was all Wonder Woman’s doing, and once again Diana Prince muses on the irony that Steve is too busy talking about Wonder Woman to notice her.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 4: A Long Day’s Journey into Fright!

On Mount Olympus—which for some reason now looks like M. C. Escher’s “Relativity” with some of the Olympians standing on the walls—the gods watch Wonder Woman. They’d like to intervene, but apparently it’s been decreed that mortals will have to be saved by an unaided mortal. Aphrodite blames herself as the mother of Ares’ sons, but then Demeter tells her that everything is ready. There is no more time, so they must all go to Hades to enter an ark that will take them to oblivion.

At Hanscom Air Force Base, Lieutenant Candy is snooping around a darkened office, looking up files on Steve Trevor. She finds a reference to Project Ares and takes photos of the paperwork with a subminiature camera. As she leaves, she sees a TV news report on a glowing orb flying around Boston, leaving a trail of decayed trees and crumbling buildings in its wake. We cut away from the TV and see that the orb is actually Decay, using her decomposition-breath to wreak havoc. She destroyers the base of the Boston Massacre Monument, causing the pillar to fall towards some innocent bystanders. At the last second, Wonder Woman catches the monolith and hurls it back at the Medusa’s daughter, who easily reduces it to dust. News cameras watch as the two hurl threats at each other in Ancient Greek, and cliché-lovers need not fear as there is a requisite “What are they saying?” “I don’t know, it’s all Greek to me” joke from the assembled onlookers. Wonder Woman grapples with Decay, her skin getting more and more wrinkled the weaker she gets, until Decay’s comment about her being returned to earth and dust reminds the Amazon that her lasso was made from the girdle of Gaea, mother of the earth, and is constantly renewed like Gaea constantly renews the earth. This makes it immune to Decay’s power, so Wonder Woman gets the loop around Decay’s neck, pouring life into the creature of death until it consumes her in a huge explosion. Wonder Woman retrieves her tiara from the ashes, but then she’s alerted to danger by her bracelets glowing and making a “whump whump” noise, something she calls the flashing thunder. Suddenly she’s surrounded by reporters, asking her a thousand questions in a language she doesn’t understand. Confused, she flies off to find Julia.

In Ares’ netherworld, Deimos is berating Phobos for his thoughtlessness. He says his brother risked ruining their father’s plans, but Ares says he still has need of him, so he will live—this time.

At the offices of the Boston Globe-Leader, city editor Carole Bennett is excited for the chance to claim this new superhero for her newspaper, the same way the Daily Planet attached itself to Superman. Noticing the bird-like symbol on the hero’s chest, she notes that bird woman doesn’t fit, and Hawkwoman is already taken, but the emblem also looks like a double W. Since Superman has an S on his chest, she decides to take inspiration from this emblem. The next morning, the headline of the Boston Globe-Leader proclaims in a huge typeface “Wonder Woman!”

North of Boston, a car winds its way up a forested mountain to a secluded house. Etta enters with a sack of groceries to find Steve staring, amazed, at the TV. He says the woman on the news report is the angel who saved him from the crash. He’d thought she was a hallucination, but now that he knows she’s real, he has to find her, as she can tell him what happened. The two leave the house, unaware they are being watched by a stern-looking man in a military uniform.

At Mercy General Hospital, a doctor tells Julia Kapatelis that Vanessa’s artificial aging process is now in remission, but they can’t find a cure as they don’t know what caused it. Julia finds a place to sit alone and cry, but then hears someone calling her name from the stairwell. There she finds Wonder Woman and asks if she’s found a cure for her daughter. The Amazon holds up Harmonia’s talisman, and Julia says it’s created some kind of psychic bond between them. The professor says that she may not fully understand what’s going on, but since her daughter was attacked this is now her fight as well.

The two women go to the Kapatelis’ winter home in the country to study the amulet. Julia pours over her books, trying to identify the markings on the amulet, while Diana watches out a window. She sees a shadowy figure skulking around the house and sneaks out to investigate. She lassos the gun out of the man’s hand, but then they both recognize each other at the same moment. It’s Steve Trevor, and he asks for Wonder Woman’s help. Julia comes out, shotgun in hand, saying she recognizes the now-infamous Colonel from the news. He says Wonder Woman saved him when a monster crashed his plane, and Julia comments that as crazy as that sounds, it fits with everything else strange that’s been going on. Diana asks why she should trust Steve, and he says because his life depends on it. They’re interrupted by Etta Candy crying out, and Steve rushes to where he left her, followed closely by Diana. Climbing over a rise, they find Colonel Michaelis holding a gun, crouching over Etta’s slumped, unconscious body.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 4: Blood

In a London night club, Wonder Woman is wearing street clothes, standing in a crowd and listening to the band. Hermes, half disguised under a poncho, beanie, and sunglasses, sits at a table with Zola, and confides in her that he’s worried about Wonder Woman. After her reaction to learning the truth about her parentage, he finds it odd that she seems to be celebrating. Zola says she’s not celebrating, she’s sharing in the community of people who like that music. Strife, champagne bottle in hand, goes up to Wonder Woman to share a drink. The Amazon is annoyed, but Strife tells her that in the the Olympian family everyone is against everyone else, and, pouring them each a drink, tries to raise a toast “to family.”

On Paradise Island, Hera appears during a raging thunderstorm. Dessa wants to send the guards, but Hippolyta refuses. Arming herself with a battle axe, she declares she will face Hera alone, queen to queen.

Strife glares at a broken champagne flute, the result of her trying to toast with the angry Wonder Woman. Hermes warns her not to mess with Wonder Woman, but Strife says she was trying to be sympathetic. The messenger of the gods scoffs at the idea, and warns that Hera will have her pound of flesh. Strife implies they should give her Zola’s unborn child by placing her hand on the mortal woman’s abdomen. Wonder Woman grabs her wrist, slamming her hand on the table and stabbing it with the broken champagne glass. She says that that pound of their family’s flesh is hers to protect, and that Strife has shown her what family means to the Olympians. Pulling her bleeding hand off the table, Strife promises she won’t help Wonder Woman again, but as she walks out of the nightclub she turns back to say that one day the Amazon will beg for her help.

Hippolyta bows her head respectfully in the presence of Hera. She says it was never her intent to offend the goddess, and that all she did was to protect her daughter. Hera explodes in rage, saying that it’s her husband’s daughter, then in a much quieter voice points out that while she is a goddess, she is also a woman, and how could Hippolyta do that to another woman? There’s an actually touching bit where the queen of the gods asks what Zeus did to make Hippolyta love him, and what she could to make him love her, but it’s interrupted by the appearance of the rest of the Amazons, armed to the teeth and saying they will protect their queen to the death. Though they’ve disobeyed her, Hera says Hippolyta should be proud of her subjects’ loyalty. The Amazon queen states that after losing her daughter and Hera’s faith in her, she’s anything but proud. She hands the goddess her battle axe and bows to the ground, asking for forgiveness. Hera raises the axe over her head as the Amazons aim their bows, but she then lowers it and crouches to hug Hippolyta, and whisper in her ear that she wishes she could.

In Wonder Woman’s London apartment, Zola enters Wonder Woman’s room to thank her for the fun evening. They both sit on the bed and Zola says how she can’t go home, not that it ever felt like home. She’s never really had much family, so where she lived was only ever just her house. Wonder Woman talks about how one of the reasons she left Paradise Island was because she thought that being sculpted from clay meant she was different from her sisters and didn’t belong. Wonder Woman thinks for a moment, then, now in her full costume, goes to Hermes to borrow his caduceus—the magic staff with two snakes wrapped around a pole that is traditionally used by the messenger of the gods. With it she teleports back to Paradise Island, which seems deserted. She enters the city square to find hundreds of snakes, slithering through scattered weapons and pieces of armor. The princess gives out a startled “No,” then starts apologizing to her mother as she walks though the sea of serpents. She says she always wished she was her mother’s biological daughter, and now she is—but it’s too late. She falls to her knees, weeping, and hugs Hippolyta—who’s still kneeling on the ground in supplication, her whole body turned to stone.

Back in Darfur, Apollo tells War that their father has gone missing, and that according the sun god’s oracles he doesn’t exist. War asks if he’s been murdered, and Apollo states that only a blood relative could be powerful enough. War says that he couldn’t be bothered to kill Zeus, but Apollo points out that the other gods will suspect him and that he could use an ally. War wonders if it’s actually Apollo who needs an ally, as this is a prime opportunity for the sun god to become king. Apollo is welcome to try, but War will not be getting involved. But when Apollo asks for his word, War gets up and leaves the bar, refusing to promise anything and pointing out that their fate has always been in mortal hands, so it’s inevitable that the world will be ruled by war.

Wonder Woman season 1 episode 3: Beauty on Parade

As Steve leaves the base, he realizes his car is being followed. His pursuers force him off the road, but when they try to drive off Wonder Woman show up and pulls a Jessica Jones (or I guess technically it was Jessica Jones who pulled a Wonder Woman) and lifts the back end of the car off the ground so they can’t leave. The men inside start to flee on foot, but Wonder Woman catches them in her golden lasso. The Major, who was unharmed, asks who gave them their orders, but they say they were paid anonymously to take out Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman uses her strength to push Trevor’s car back on the road, and he takes the hired muscle to the police.

Back at the base, Monty the pianist gets off the phone and tells Lola that his suspicions were correct: there’s no one on the base named Diana Paradise. The dance instructor is unfazed, saying she lied about her identity when she was starting out, but Monty says that it’ll be too bad if Diana is interested in more than the contest.

Steve returns to the War Department to find Diana in her pageant disguise, practicing her poise. He’s astonished at her transformation, but she tells him how she’s infiltrated the contest and he agrees that her plan is a good one. He says if he needs to contact her he’ll call, pretending to be her Uncle George. There’s a tense moment when he says that seeing her in a dress reminds him of someone, but he turns out to be teasing when he says she looks like Joan Crawford—at least her ankles do, anyway!

Once Diana’s at the dorm housing the pageant girls, a nervous Lola warns her to be extra careful. Jack Wood pays a visit and, impressed with Diana, decides she’ll be his assistant in his magic act. After he leaves, Rita is jealous, saying the role had been hers, but her attempted fight is broken up by Lola telling Diana she’s got a call from her uncle George. She’ll allow it this once, but personal calls are against the rules. Steve tells Diana that the attack on the base was actually the second attempt to destroy the radar scanner parts, but the first only destroyed an access road and was deemed an accident. The last component will be assembled at 1 AM near the fort’s electrical substation. He’ll be there to stop the inevitable attack, but Diana should watch the pageant group for signs of the saboteur.

That night, while all the other girls sleep, Diana arranges her pillows and wig to look like she’s still in bed, then spins into her costume and heads to the substation. By the time she arrives, Steve has already been knocked unconscious and his masked attacker has planted a bomb in some electrical equipment. Wonder Woman saves him from the blast, telling him when he awakes that the radar parts were unharmed. She returns to the dorm where her wig and empty bed have been found by Rita, but she pretends to have been taking a shower so she’s not disqualified for taking off without permission. Lola orders the girls back to bed, but then is confronted by Steve’s masked attacker, who reveals himself to be Monty. He’s still suspicious of Diana, but Lola says she wants nothing to do with the attacks. He then informs Lola that the radar scanner was never their real target, but instead their true goal is to take out a General who will soon be visiting the base: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

We get a quick scene in Texas where we learn the sabotages have changed General Eisenhower’s route to Fort Russel, then go back to Major Trevor in Washington. He learns from General Blankenship that the radar scanner has been completed in time for Eisenhower’s inspection, but Steve wonders why someone skilled enough to infiltrate the base missed destroying the parts three times. He learns the General’s route to the base from Blankenship and realizes all the sabotage attempts have actually made it so Eisenhower can only take one easily-ambushed road. As he rushes off to stop the General before he reaches the trap, Steve orders Etta to call Diana, but when she does Monty hangs up on her. She radios the Major, who tells her to go to the fort and warn his secretary in person.

At the pageant dress rehearsal, Rita complains that Diana’s magician’s assistant costume ought to have been hers. Monty still thinks Diana is up to no good and watches the heavy stage lights and speakers being lowered via pulley, taking note which rope holds it up. Lola sees what he’s thinking and wants to stop him, but he says it’s too late, and his men are already in position. We see camouflaged soldiers take out the guards at the gate Eisenhower will have to pass through, and set up their trap. Steve and Blankenship are too late to meet the General’s plane at the runway, so they rush off to Fort Russel.

Etta arrives after the start of the pageant but isn’t allowed to talk to Diana. Backstage, the Amazon tells Lola that her costume for the magic show is missing. Rita is instantly suspected, and sure enough they watch as she waltzes out on stage wearing the costume and usurping Diana’s part in the act. Lola tries to stop Monty, but he traps her in a magician’s disappearing box, unaware that the girl on stage is not his target. Diana sees him cutting the rope, quickly spins into her costume, and catches the heavy equipment before it can do any harm. Monty escapes in a jeep, but as she goes to chase him Wonder Woman finds Etta, who tells her of the plot to attack Eisenhower.

The General’s car approaches the ambush point, closely followed by Steve. They try to escape their tail, but the Major honks his name in Morse code, convincing them to stop. Steve tells Eisenhower of the ambush, but unfortunately they’ve already gone too far, and their attackers block the road behind them by knocking over a telephone pole, then open fire on the Army men. Wonder Woman arrives, picking up the downed pole and lobbing it at the gunmen, sending them scattering. Monty arrives and tries shooting a rocket launcher at them, but Wonder Woman catches the missile and throws it away to explode harmlessly. The saboteur then tries to escape, but he’s stopped by a quick toss of Wonder Woman’s lasso.

Back at the pageant, Jack Wood explains to the audience everything that’s happened and then declares Wonder Woman the contest winner. She’s given the traditional bouquet of roses, but starts handing them out to the other contestants. Etta and Steve watch from backstage, and Etta wonders where Diana went. Steve says she must have given up after learning she’d be sharing the stage with the beautiful Wonder Woman.

The episode wraps up back in Steve’s office as he tells Diana that Monty and his gang have been arraigned, the radar scanner is working great, and Eisenhower has nominated Wonder Woman for a special citation. Diana says she feels sorry for Lola, and Steve mentions that Jack Wood is trying to get the dance instructor leniency for cooperating with the authorities. Etta is amazed that Diana can still focus on office work after everything that’s happened, and Steve jokes that she’s all business. He says he hopes to be there when Diana finally decided to have some fun, and she promises he will be.

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 2

The ambulance drives for a long time until they reach an abandoned Southern mansion guarded by armed German spies. Once inside, the prisoners are brought to a masked man wearing a green mad scientist-style old-timey double-breasted lab coat and red gloves. Steve recognizes the man as Doctor Poison, chief of the Nazi spies poison division. The doctor plans to use truth serum to learn how much the Army Intelligence Service knows about Nazi agents, but Nurse Prince breaks her bonds and rushes over, saying the injection could kill the Captain. Doctor Poison holds a scalpel to Steve’s throat, threatening to kill him if she doesn’t obey his orders. Agreeing, Diana is given the syringe of truth serum to sterilize the needle, but she switches it with a harmless syringe of saline from her medical bag. She tells Steve to act as if he’s been given the correct injection, and he gives the Nazis false information. The prisoners are tied up and put in separate cells, but Diana easily frees herself as soon as the guards leave. She changes into her Wonder Woman costume that was in her medical bag, and breaks out of her cell. Seeing that the guards will shoot Steve if she tries to free him, she instead breaks into a garage and escapes in a “borrowed” car.

Unaware of his prisoner’s escape, Doctor Poison orders his men to dump his new toxin, Reverso, into the water supply of a nearby Army camp. Reverso is designed to confuse the drinker’s mind so that they do the exact opposite of whatever they’re told. The plan succeeds, but the General quickly realizes that his men do the opposite of what they’re told and so is able to get the affected men into internment camps by reversing his orders: Backwards march, turn left to move them right, etc. The gloating Doctor Poison shows Captain Trevor a newspaper report on the sick soldiers, but his smugness disappears when he learns Nurse Prince is no longer in her cell. Steve wonders if Wonder Woman could have freed her, but Doctor Poison, fearing she will lead the Army to his door, orders his men to dig trenches and prepare for a siege so he will have time to get the remaining Reverso ready for shipment. If the Army arrives, they are to be told that the hostage will be killed if they try to attack.

Knowing that a direct attack will risk Steve’s life, Wonder Woman drives to the Holliday College for Women looking for someone named Etta Candy. She finds her practicing with the marching band, but doesn’t recognize her at first. Wonder Woman says that her friend, Nurse Diana Prince, said Etta was thin when she cared for her in the hospital. Etta, who now appears to be upwards of 200 pounds, confirms that she was thin when she had to be at the hospital to get her appendix out, but that afterwards she was told to eat anything she wanted, and she has—as evidenced by her constant eating from an ever-present box of chocolates. Wonder Woman says she needs to recruit one hundred brave, pretty girls who are willing to help capture dangerous men to save the man Diana Prince loves. Apparently missing the “dangerous” part, Etta excitedly exclaims that every girl at the school will be happy to catch men, giving her distinctive cheer of “Woo! Woo!” She helps Wonder Woman recruit the strongest, prettiest girls the college has to offer.

The one hundred women, plus Wonder Woman and Etta, form a marching band and make their way to the spies’ hideout. Before they arrive, Wonder Woman warns them of the danger and arms them with handcuffs, saying that when she calls out the girls are to cuff the men. The enthusiastic girls are ready to go, so they begin marching. The Nazis are initially confused by the sight of a band of women playing music through the woods, but when they offer to put on a dance the men agree immediately. As the couples begin dancing in the ballroom, Wonder Woman takes a couple of girls to lure away the men guarding Steve’s cell. Wonder Woman burst through the door, and Steve calls her his beautiful angel as she removes his chains. Wonder Woman asks what an angel is and says she’d rather be a woman, which is a bit odd seeing as how she called herself a guardian angel just last issue. Carrying the still-injured Steve to the ballroom, she gives the order and the college girls make quick work of capturing their dancing partners. The two then rush to Doctor Poison’s lab to get the antidote for the sick soldiers, when they find the Doctor. Ripping off the villain’s coat and mask, Wonder Woman confirms her suspicion that the Doctor is in fact a woman in disguise. Calling herself Princess Maru, she pull a gun on Wonder Woman, who of course blocks the bullets easily. Etta Candy then bursts into the room, tackling the Princess to the ground. Wonder Woman threatens to strip her and march her barefoot to Washington if she doesn’t give them the antidote, but saying she’d rather die than lose face, Maru finally gives in. Steve and Wonder Woman take the cure to the Army camp while the college girls guard the spies until the military police arrive.

Back at the hospital, Steve is again congratulated by his superiors, but insists the credit goes to Wonder Woman. Nurse Prince tells him she saw Wonder Woman but thinks she’s not very pretty, but the Captain insists she’s the most gorgeous being in the world.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 3: Deadly Arrival

Speaking of Steve, he was found in the base hospital during the night. The doctors are astonished how he got there and that his injuries are already healing. General Hillary wants to see him, but General Tolliver, who we’ve not met before, has placed him under arrest for commandeering the jet, as there are no records of his orders from General Kohler. Steve is also wanted for questioning about Kohler’s death, so he will be held under guard until he wakes up and can give answers.

Hermes leads Wonder Woman to Harvard University, where he says she will find the person who will be her mentor, and guide her through man’s world. Before he leaves, he hands her Harmonia’s talisman, telling her she must learn its secrets.

In the university library, we’re introduced to the eccentric Professor Julia Kapatelis. Reaching for a book at the top of a shelf, she falls off a library ladder, but is caught by the Amazon Princess. The professor tries talking to her rescuer, and realizes she’s speaking an odd dialect of Ancient Greek. Wonder Woman shows her the talisman, and when she touches it the professor has a vision of Themyscira and the Amazons, and she realizes that she has to help the strange visitor.

Phobos watches this meeting through a magic portal. He decides to destroy the Amazon before she becomes more than an annoyance, hoping to please his father Ares. He climbs into the rib cage of a giant desiccated corpse and plunges his hand into its pulsing hearts—what he calls “the heart of the gorgon.” He pulls out a mass of what looks like chewed bubble gum, then blows on it to reshaped it into a purple Greek statuette of a woman with large pointed ears. Elsewhere, his brother Deimos is in a secluded house giving a speech to a large crowd of people, ranting about how the time has come to strike against their enemies in order to protect their country.

Back at the military hospital, Colonel Trevor has awoken but he can’t remember enough to answer General Tolliver’s questions. All he can recall is random images of an island and being carried by a woman who could fly. Tolliver says no one will believe those delusions, but they can’t take that chance and that they’ve come too far to let Trevor get in the way of their master plan. Steve realizes the nurse is about to inject him with a syringeful of air to induce a fatal embolism, so he fights back and manages to escape. A guard attempts to call security to stop the Colonel, but he’s shot in the back by Tolliver, who says he can’t allow anyone to interfere. We get a quick scene of Phobos’ statue being delivered to Professor Kapatelis’ house and being opened by her teenage daughter Vanessa before cutting to Lt. Candy’s apartment. Etta learns of Steve’s escape, and the death of the guard, from Colonel Michaelis, but she refuses to believe that Steve is the one responsible. After she hangs up the phone, Steve climbs in through her window, telling Etta that she’s correct. People are trying to kill him, and they have to find out why.

Meanwhile, in a snowy Eastern European city, Deimos is repeating the exact same speech from earlier to another large crowd—only this time, he’s giving it in Russian.

Back at the Kapatelis household, Julia uses her rusty Greek to introduce Diana to her daughter, telling Vanessa that the Amazon will be staying with them a while. The girl acts annoyed like the typical moody teenager she is, and her mother takes Diana to her study to teach the visitor English. By midnight, Diana already has a rudimentary understanding of the language, but Vanessa has fallen asleep in front of the TV. Behind her on the mantelpiece, the purple statuette opens its eyes. Hearing her daughter scream, Julia and Diana rush downstairs to see the living room in rotten shambles. Standing amid the destruction is a wiry purple woman with red eyes and large pointed ears, wearing tattered rags. She introduces herself as Decay, saying she will be their death. Julia tries to get to her daughter, who is huddled in a corner and appears to have aged fifty years in mere moments, but Diana stops her. Seeing that her foe will not engage her in combat, Decay uses her power of decomposition to make the house collapse around them.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 3: Clay

Flash back to earlier in the day: the Amazons are gathering wood for the pyres, mourning their loss. One Amazon, Aleka, blames Diana, whom she disparagingly refers to as “Clay.” Strife, still in her giant form, finds the nickname hilarious and goes off to tell Diana. The Princess says no one has called her that since she was a child. Hermes shows up, not yet fully recovered from his injury and being supported by Zola, so Strife shrinks down to human size to argue with him. Diana tells Strife that she’d rather be anything but her sister, and the goddess remarks that you can’t choose your family. She’s cut off by the arrival of Hippolyta, who’s finally going to tell her daughter the truth. As she talks, we get flashes of Hippolyta and Zeus secretly fighting each other in single combat over and over: on a stormy beach, atop snow-covered mountains, in a desert. Eventually these battles gave way to a night of passion that resulted in the Amazon Queen becoming pregnant. She left the god of thunder in order to keep her pregnancy secret, and she and the other Amazons decided to invent the “sculpted from clay” explanation for Diana’s birth to hide her from Hera. She just wanted to protect her daughter from being killed in her crib by her father’s jealous wife, but Diana feels immensely betrayed, learning she’s been lied to and made a fool her entire life. She storms out of the city and crashes her way through the forest, ending up at the beach where the funeral is taking place.

While this has been going on, Aleka has been stirring up trouble as the Amazons were preparing for the funeral. She’s questioned Diana’s loyalty and even interrupts the funeral by yelling that paradise has been ruined, all because Diana brought a man—the god Hermes—to their island. It’s then that the already-distraught Diana stumbles onto the beach. Aleka cries out that here is the one who brought shame to Paradise Island, but Diana punches her in the jaw and picks up a torch. She uses her super-breath to blow the flames into the pyres, igniting them. We’re now back to where the issue started, and Diana tells the assembled Amazons that the only shame on the island is hers, but she will remove it by leaving—and she won’t be coming back. One of her sisters calls to her, but she turns away, saying never to call her Diana, or Clay, ever again. She is Wonder Woman. She then walks off into the night, followed only by Hermes, who’s still being supported by Zola, and the smirking Strife.

Wonder Woman season 1 episode 2: Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman

Back in Washington, Diana wishes Steve goodnight before she leaves the office. He plans to finish some paperwork, but Grables enters, disguised as the cleaning lady, and knocks him unconscious. The next day Diana receives a phone call from the spy in disguise, claiming she found a note on the street written by Trevor which said he’d been kidnapped and to let his office know. Diana spins into her costume to investigate the warehouse where the note was found. Grables watches from the shadows as Wonder Woman demonstrates her strength and the power of the lasso against the German goons sent to test her. Rescuing Steve, Wonder Woman gets him to safety as the blonde spy hatches a new plot: to disguise herself as Wonder Woman in order to draw out and kidnap the Amazon.

At a war bonds rally, Grables, wearing a wig and a masked version of the Wonder Woman costume, shows off with one of those carnival strength test games where you hit the thing with the mallet to try to ring a bell. She easily hits the bell, but then the real Wonder Woman shows up. She’s wearing a similar mask, and her strike knocks the bell clean off. They then show off by lifting a barbell, but when the real Wonder Woman goes to lift it, a trap door opens up beneath her and she falls under the stage into the arms of a waiting spy. He manages to overpower her with a chloroform-soaked rag long enough to wrap her own lasso around her. Forced to tell the truth, she reveals that her strength will be gone if he removes her belt. He does so and drags the now-unconscious Wonder Woman into a car, closely followed by Grables. Steve and Etta, who’ve been watching the rally and thought the whole “which is the real Wonder Woman?” thing was a stunt, try to talk to her just before she drives away, but when she brushes them off Steve quickly realizes this Wonder Woman is an impostor. Realizing the real one has been captured, Steve commandeers a taxi to chase down the spies, but he arrives just in time to learn their destination before they take off for Germany.

Back at headquarters, the Major insists on rescuing the superhero, but General Blankenship refuses to authorize a mission into Germany itself. He says there’s nothing they can do, and orders Steve to get some rest. Instead, the Major has radio operators scan the airways, and they manage to overhear Grables reporting to Colonel Kesselmann of their imminent arrival with Wonder Woman. Steve decides to follow the General’s orders and take a vacation—in Nazi Germany!

Grables delivers Wonder Woman to the Colonel, but he refuses to let her be the one to question her, ostensibly because she wants to use the lasso of truth. Meanwhile, Steve visits the British Office of Strategic Services, where he meets an old friend who can put Steve in touch with an undercover agent, and just happens to be flying a mission over Berlin that night. After landing safely and hiding his parachute, Steve meets his contact, a man named Rojak who says he’s learned the location of Operation Fräulein. When the two are stopped by soldiers, they’re allowed to go free despite their forged papers, because one of the soldiers knows that Rojak is a secret gestapo agent. Back at Nazi Intelligence headquarters, Grables tries to demonstrate the lasso’s power on Wonder Woman, but the Colonel doesn’t believe her story of coming from a hidden island with no men, where the women are trained to have both strong minds and bodies.

Steve begins to suspect Rojak of leading him in circles as Grables continues to insist that Wonder Woman’s belt and lasso are the key to her power. The Colonel angrily snatches them out of her hands and throws them at Wonder Woman, who catches them and, strength regained, easily breaks her bonds. She overpowers her captors and ties up Grables, telling her a women so intelligent shouldn’t be working for a man like Kesselmann. She leaves the Nazi fort only moments before Steve arrives, having been delayed when Rojak revealed his true colors and was knocked out by a fellow American spy who said she’s long suspected him of being a double agent. The Major rushes into the questioning chamber, pointing his gun at Grables and Kesselmann and demanding they free Wonder Woman, but quickly finds himself captured when more armed Nazis break into the room, led by the bandaged Rojak.

Having returned to America in the Nazi plane her kidnappers used, Yeoman Diana Prince goes in to work at the War Department to find that Major Trevor isn’t there. Etta says he’s still on furlough, but then General Blankenship come it with news that Steve has been captured and is being held at Gestapo headquarters. Etta confesses that he went to rescue Wonder Woman, and Diana asks whether the American underground spy network can help. The General says they’ve recently learned that the network is riddled with double agents, but the report also said that Wonder Woman has escaped the Nazis, so he hopes she can help Steve. Diana once again spins into her costume and heads back to Germany in the Invisible Plane. Grables and Kesselmann, who leaked the news of Steve’s capture to lure Wonder Woman back, watch as she enters their headquarters. Grables plans to capture the Amazon in a cistern, but the Colonel scoffs at the idea and insists on doing things his way. Wonder Woman finds the cell where Steve is chained, but the doors close behind her and the wall starts moving in to crush them, trash-compactor-on-the-detention-level style. Wonder Woman frees Steve’s bonds and uses her strength to push the wall back, destroying its mechanism. As they try to escape, a trap door opens beneath them, dropping them into a pool surrounded by high, inescapable walls. Above them stands Grables, who threatens to throw a switch and lower an electrical cable into the water that will kill them with 50,000 volts. Kesselman and Rojak appear and the colonel demands that Wonder Woman tell him all of her secrets, but she says she will only speak to the woman who captured her. He replies that he’s the commander and she’s his prisoner, but Grables points out that they wouldn’t have been caught had she not used the water trap. Enraged, Kesselmann orders Rojak to throw her into the cistern, saying that the report will show she was responsible for Wonder Woman’s escape and died in her recapture, but she throws off her attacker and dumps him into the water instead. She’s then attacked by Kesselmann, but not before she tosses a rope to Wonder Woman. The Amazon climbs out and pulls the Colonel off Grables and into the water in one swift motion. Meanwhile, Steve has scaled the rope as well, and they leave the two Nazis trapped in the cistern. After they escape, Wonder Woman offers Grables a chance to come to America, but she decides to stay in her homeland despite the fact that she’s now a wanted woman. She wants to find like-minded people to help fight the Nazis, so Steve introduces her to the American spy who saved him from Rojak earlier. After the two women leave, Wonder Woman asks whether the Major will be in trouble for coming to Germany to rescue her, but Steve reveals he managed to steal a book from the Gestapo with the names of all the Nazi double agents, so the General won’t be too angry.

The next day in Washington, Diana brings Steve a report from their new agent Fausta Grables. He expresses amazement at her bravery, staying in Germany despite the danger. Diana points out that maybe all women can do wonders if put to the test. Steve comments that Wonder Woman said the exact same thing, causing Diana to give a knowing smile.

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Sensation Comics vol. 1 issue 1

Needing to kill time while Steve recovers, Wonder Woman decides to go window shopping. There’s a pretty funny bit where she comments on how much fabric American dresses use, all the while ignorant of the scandalized reactions the people around her are having to the sight of a woman wearing, essentially, a strapless minidress. She comes across a bank robbery in-progress, so she leaps into action, commenting how fun it is to play Bullets and Bracelets again. By the time the police show up she’s taken out all the thieves. As she runs away from the officers’ questions she is perused by a man in a car who saw her stop the robbery. Diana keeps running faster, and her pursuer has to speed up to 80 miles an hour just to pull alongside her and tell her he has a business proposition. He introduces himself as Al Kale, a booking agent who can get her Bullets and Bracelets act on stage, which he says would be very profitable. Realizing she needs money, Diana agrees, and for three weeks she gives performances that break theater records and get written about in all the newspapers. While reading a paper, Diana sees an article that says Captain Trevor has awoken from his concussion-induced coma, so she tells Kale she’s quitting. Upset, he decides to take her half of the money, but she stops him and recovers her share before he can escape.

As she approaches the hospital, Wonder Woman sees an Army nurse with dark hair and glasses crying on the steps. Asking if there’s any way she can help, the nurse says she was recently assigned to the hospital, but her fiance just got a job in South America. His salary is too small to send for her, so Diana—noticing that the two women look very similar—offers to buy Nurse Prince’s identity so they both can be with the men they love. The woman—also conveniently named Diana—will be able to afford the move to South America, and Wonder Woman—also conveniently a trained nurse—will be able to care for Steve. Ahh, ya’ gotta love good ol’ fashioned Golden Age coincidences. The original Diana Prince agrees, and so the new Dina Prince becomes the special nurse for Captain Trevor.

As the Captain recovers, he says he’s wasting time and wants to get back to work. Nurse Prince tells him she thinks he’s more interested in finding the woman who brought him to the hospital—this “beautiful angel” he keeps talking about. After reading a newspaper article about a Nazi threat to bomb Camp Merick with poisonous gas that can’t be stopped by gas masks, Steve sneaks out of the hospital and reports for duty. Diana returns to the barn where she hid the transparent plane as Steve flies his fighter around the camp waiting for the enemy bomber. When it arrives he tries shooting it from the sky, but when he realizes his bullets aren’t working against the armored plating he crashes into the Nazi plane, ejecting at the last second. His parachute is damaged in the explosion, however, and he plummets to earth. Wonder Woman catches him in mid-air, and he recognizes his beautiful angel—though she comments she’s more like a guardian angel!

The enemy pilot also managed to eject from his plane, so Wonder Woman rescues him as well. He’s mortally wounded, though, and before he dies he taunts the Allies that more poison gas bombs will be dropped by planes coming from his secret base. Conveniently, Diana had the foresight to consult the magic sphere about the location of this base before she left Paradise Island, so she’s able to fly them right to the enemy’s island. She and Steve fight their way into the base, don some gas masks, and shoot a container of poison gas—though apparently this is a different kind of poison gas than the one used in the bombs they’re dropping on America, since that one was specifically said to permeate gas masks. Knowing he’s dying, the base leader set off the self-destruct, but Wonder Woman is able to leap clear of the explosion. She pulls Steve from the rubble, and he returns to the hospital with a broken leg. There, Steve is congratulated for breaking up the Nazi gang, but he insists that the credit belongs to the beautiful angel Wonder Woman. His superiors think he’s delirious, but he insists there is a Wonder Woman. Nurse Prince says she believes him, but that he doesn’t need one now since he has her. He replies that she’s nice and he likes her, but she can’t compare to Wonder Woman. The issue ends with Diana wishing her mother could see her now and musing on the irony that she’s her own romantic rival.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 2: A Fire in the Sky!

On Themyscira, it’s also thundering, and thick clouds fill the sky as Diana approaches a statue of Artemis to learn the details of her mission. Her mother and a few of her sisters watch, and Menalippe mentions that the gods promised to give their champion a special weapon. On Mount Olympus, the Amazons’ goddesses urge Hephaestus, god of metalworking, to hurry as he forges this weapon from Gaea’s girdle—the Lasso of Truth. Finally complete, it appears in front of Diana in a flash of lightning that came from the statue. As she goes to pick it up, she’s greeted by Hermes, whom the Amazons haven’t seen in centuries, and he transports the two of them to where she can find the first clue to stopping Ares.

In the churning skies, Steve Trevor tries to radio the base to report reaching his destination, but the signal is lost in the storm. Slade then notices their navigation equipment is malfunctioning, moments before the plane encounters rough turbulence and starts spinning out of control. Just in time, Steve manages to regain control and they begin to gain altitude again.

Hermes and Diana arrive in Areopagus, the now-crumbling palace of the god of war. Inside, he leads her to a woman wrapped in rags—a woman powerful enough to destroy the messenger god, but who may speak to Diana as she’s never met her and so has no reason to hate the Amazon. Calling herself Harmonia, she says she wants to be left alone, but when Diana says she’s trying to stop Ares, she give the princess a talisman to help her find him. Harmonia explains that as the daughter of Aphrodite she could have been beautiful, but because Ares was her father her chance at beauty was destroyed. She warns Diana not to be corrupted by the power of the talisman just before Hermes calls to the Amazon that he’s heard the cries of her sisters and that Themyscira is in great danger.

The warrior women are in a panic as a “giant bird” breaks through the clouds protecting the island. Inside this “bird,” Steve has only a moment to realize he’s been flying over a city before Slade wraps his hands around his throat. The co-pilot, ignoring his suddenly smoking and melting flesh, raves how they needed the unbeliever’s skill to get through Athena’s clouds, but because he opposed the servants of Ares, Trevor will now die—but not before being forced to bomb the Amazons. The sight of Wonder Woman flying towards what she thinks of as a giant metal bird with a transparent head changes his plans however, so Slade releases the bomb before losing control of the plane and crashing in the ocean. Diana quickly realizes the bomb is a weapon and so lassos it and sends it flying off to detonate harmlessly in the sky. The Amazons marvel at this weapon that can set the sky on fire as Diana dives after the plane, hoping she can learn more about Ares’ plan from their attacker. She sees the disintegrating body of Slade, but is warned not to touch it by the sea deity Themis, who instead instructs her to rescue Colonel Trevor.

Back at Hanscom Base, Lt. Candy found Steve’s midnight mission very odd, and so called Kohler’s superior, General Hillary. The General was unaware of the mission and furiously demands to see Kohler, but when they open his office door all that’s left is a smoking skeleton.

After rescuing the Colonel, Diana took him to the island of healing, a small island off the coast of Themyscira. There the injured man is taken care of as the Amazons debate whether or not to let him live. Their argument is broken up by the appearance by Athena—the first in over 3000 years. She reveals that the amulet Diana got from Harmonia is only one half of the talisman, and only when it’s complete will they be able to find and defeat Ares. Hermes arrives to take Diana and Steve to man’s world, and after hugging her mother goodbye and saluting her sisters, Diana picks up the unconscious man, and the messenger god uses the mortal’s thoughts to transport them back to the place he came from.

Meanwhile General Hillary watches as Kohler’s remains are loaded into an ambulance. He questions Lt. Candy and Colonel Michaelis about Trevor, and they insist he had nothing to do with the man’s death. As they talk they are unaware that they’re being watched through a mystic portal by mysterious figures. These two comment on the deaths of Kohler and Slade, though they seem unconcerned since they can control thousands more. The issue ends with the reveal of these strange beings as Phobos and Deimos, sons of Ares and gods of fear and terror.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 2: Home

It’s night on Paradise Island, and Diana carries a wounded Hermes through the forest, followed by Zola. She hears the Amazons whispering plans to attack, but once she makes her identity known they come out of hiding and bow before their princess, who in turn bows before her mother when Queen Hippolyta comes striding out of the trees.

Once in the city, Hippolyta warns Diana against siding against Hera, who will stop at nothing to punish Zola for carrying Zeus’ child. Diana says she’s siding with neither the god of thunder nor his wife, but rather with the mortal woman. In another room, Zola asks the wounded Hermes why Wonder Woman seems different than the other Amazons, and he tells her the classic origin of Diana being sculpted from clay and brought to life by the gods without the involvement of men. Diana spars with another Amazon while Hippolyta watches, worried about Hera knowing Zeus’ child is on Paradise Island.

Suddenly there’s an explosion in the distance, and we see the purple-skinned goddess from earlier walk out of the flames. Diana leads the Amazons to confront the intruder, but their eyes begin to glow like the stranger’s and they begin attacking each other out of confusion. Wonder Woman realizes what’s happening and orders them to throw down their weapons. As she tries to restrain one of her sisters she encounters the purple woman, now grown so tall that she towers over the trees. She recognizes the goddess as Strife and realizes her power of sowing discord is what’s causing the Amazons to attack each other. Strife clams she was reacting to being attacked and that she’s actually come in peace. Diana thinks she must be lying and so throws the Lasso of Truth around her neck. Amused, Strife says she only came to Paradise Island to hug her little sister. The Amazon thinks she means Zola’s child, but the goddess says no—she’s talking about Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman season 1 episode 1: Wonder Woman meets Baroness Von Gunther

Trevor wakes up lying on the couch at his secretary’s apartment. She tells him he was left on her doorstep with a note from Wonder Woman explaining that the Abwehr spy ring is behind the attacks. Realizing that the attacks are all in the area of the prison holding former Abwehr leader Baroness Von Gunther, they decide to pay her a visit to see if she can give them any information. While talking with the prison warden, they’re interrupted by the warden’s son Tommy, a young Sherlock Holmes-obsessed boy whose stories of investigating a hidden tunnel are dismissed as a fantasy by his father. Tommy is sent to play outside, where he finds a hidden door in the prison wall that opens with a strange key he found lying on the ground. Meanwhile, Steve and Diana interview the Baroness, who claims to be both reformed and ignorant of the Abwehr’s current activity. Diana glances out a window and spots Tommy climbing a rickety ladder, so she excuses herself then secretly spins into her costume and leaps to catch the boy, landing them both on the roof. As they climb down with the golden lasso, Tommy says he was trying to investigate the signal lights he’d seen the night before. Realizing she doesn’t have time to retrieve the lasso before the guards arrive, Wonder Woman asks Tommy to hide it until she can return. The Baroness happens to see the superhero and the boy from her window as the Major continues his questions. He notices the odd necklace she’s wearing—one that the audience realizes just happens to look like the key that Tommy found—but she dismisses it as an old heirloom. Unsuccessful, Steve meets up with his secretary and they leave.

That night, the Baroness and a guard named Hansen sneak out of the prison, using—and this may come as a shock, so make sure you’re sitting down—the Baroness’ necklace to open the door to the hidden tunnel. I know, I could hardly believe it myself. Thankfully they’re watched by Tommy, who’s camped out in a tree taking notes in his casebook about everything he sees. The Baroness drives to a mansion, where she meets with a very wealthy man and they discuss framing Trevor for sabotaging the weapons shipments.

Back at the prison the next day, Von Gunther approaches Tommy, pretending to be a friend of Wonder Woman. She tricks him into revealing the hiding place of the lasso, which her guard Hansen promptly steals.

Major Trevor goes to a meeting at the home of Arthur Deal, the man in charge of his hearing. We and Steve quickly realize he is actually the Baroness’ rich accomplice, just before Von Gunther herself enters the room with a gun pointed at Trevor. After tying him up, she shows Steve the magic lasso, telling him that if he doesn’t sign a confession he’ll never see Wonder Woman again. The confession makes its way back to the War Department, but Diana refuses to believe it. As Wonder Woman she returns to the prison to retrieve her lasso, but Tommy tells her it was taken. He did write down the license plate number of the car the Baroness drove off in, so Wonder Woman calls the Department of Motor Vehicles, and by using her ability to perfectly mimic General Blankenship’s voice—which is apparently a thing she can do now—gets the name of the car’s owner: Arthur Deal. She heads to Deal’s mansion and finds Trevor tied up, but is knocked out by sleeping gas and bound in chains before she can rescue him.

Back at the prison, the guards finally notice that the Baroness isn’t in her cell. A search ensues, but Tommy’s attempts to tell his father how she escaped are ignored. The boy is overheard by the Hansen, who captures him and brings him to Deal’s mansion.

The Nazis, now with three captives, plan kill the adults and frame them as spies to destroy the country’s moral. But as they try to move the prisoners Wonder Woman breaks her bonds, and she and Steve make quick work of their captors. The Baroness tries to escape, but Wonder Woman chases her down and catches her with the golden lasso.

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All Star Comics vol. 1 issue 8: Introducing Wonder Woman

Next we have a section of mostly text about how in ancient Greece, Hercules tried to conquer the Amazons but Hippolyte challenged him to singe combat because she knew she couldn’t lose while wearing Aphrodite’s magic girdle. She defeated the son of Zeus, but he tricked her and took the girdle, so the Amazons became enslaved, and there’s a picture of the Amazons getting chains on their wrists. Aphrodite wouldn’t help since Hippolyte succumbed to the wiles of men, but later she relented and Hippolyte was able to get the magic girdle back. The Amazons defeated Hercules’ forces and took off in their ships, and Aphrodite commanded that they leave the world of men and make a world for themselves where they would never be beguiled by men—and as a reminder they had to always wear the bracelets they’d been chained with, which is why every Amazon seems to be wearing cuff bracelets on each wrist. As long as they keep their promise to the goddess these wonder women live an eternal life with no war, illness, or hatred, which is why the American must leave as soon as possible.

The princess wants to know how the pilot got to Paradise Island, so her mother uses the Magic Sphere of Athena, really just a big round mirror, to show her what happened. This mirror lets the Amazon queen see the outside world, which is how they all speak English and know about modern technology.

So the magic sphere gives us a flashback to America where Captain Trevor has discovered a German spy ring, but when he confronts them, they knock him out and put him in a stolen American “robot plane” that they set to fly over an aerodrome while they fly high above it dropping bombs. The idea is to make it look like Steve’s a traitor, which works until he wakes up and chases the German bomber far out over the ocean, until he runs out of gas and crashes on Paradise Island.

Hippolyte decides to ask the gods how to return the man to his homeland, and Athena and Aphrodite tell her that once again the entire world is in danger, so the gods caused the plane to crash on Paradise Island so that the strongest Amazon warrior can return with the Captain to fight oppression and preserve freedom for America and all womankind. The queen decides to hold a tournament to choose who will go, but refuses to let her daughter enter because the winner will never be allowed to return. They hold the contest, and when there are only two contestants remaining—one of whom insists on wearing a mask—they have the final test of “Bullets and Bracelets.” This is where the contestants shoot guns at each other and have to use their cuff bracelets to catch the bullets. The masked Amazon wins, and to the surprise of no one who’s not a ’40s comic book character, it’s actually the princess. The queen accepts her daughter’s right to be their Wonder Woman in America, tells her to to call herself Diana after her godmother the moon goddess, and gives her a red strapless dress with a gold eagle on the torso and a blue star-spangled skirt the queen designed for the contest winner to wear in America.

Wonder Woman vol. 2 issue 1: The Princess and the Power!

Fast-forward to 1200 BC: on Mount Olympus, Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wants to create a new race of mortals to lead mankind closer to the gods with love and compassion. Ares argues to Zeus that this will never work, that man only understands violence. Athena says violence will cause mankind to destroy itself, which would be the end of the gods as their worship is what gives the Olympians strength. Zeus refuses to give his blessing, but will not stop his children from creating this new race. Ares leave Olympus, sure that mankind’s lust for war will eventually make him stronger than the god of thunder, while Athena and Artemis decide to go ahead with their plan. Hermes takes them to the Underworld, where they meet with Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hestia, goddesses of harvest, love, and the hearth, respectively. The five goddesses travel to Gaea’s womb–a place called the Well of Rebirth–where dwell the souls of women whose lives were cut short by men’s fear and ignorance. The Olympians send these souls back to earth, reborn as fully grown women—all except one, a soul with a special destiny whose time is yet to come. The five “midwives of Gaea” greet their new daughters, telling them of their mission to lead humanity by example. They give the leaders of the Amazons, Hippolyte and Antiope, special girdles of Gaea that they must always wear.

The Amazons build a city-state ruled by compassion and justice called Themyscira, but the rulers of the rest of Greece are jealous and come to fear them. A servant of Ares tells Heracles (props for using his original Greek name instead of the Roman Hercules) that the queen of the Amazons mocks him, driving the son of Zeus into a rage. He leads his army to Themyscira where he’s greeted by Hippolyte, who asks him to chose peace. Instead he attacks her, but when she out-maneuvers him he decides that the Amazons are worthy allies. The celebrations of peace are cut short, however, when Heracles drugs the queen and orders his men to attack. Themyscira is torched and the Amazons put in chains. Waking, Hippolyte asks Athena for vengeance, but the goddess of wisdom tells her the Amazons lost their way when they withdrew from humanity instead of leading it. The Amazons are freed, but instead of listening to the queen’s cries for peace they slaughter their captors. Only Heracles escapes, carrying Hippolyte’s sacred girdle with him. Antiope wants to hunt him down, but Hippolyte says they must follow Athena’s instructions and go to the Aegean Sea. Antiope decides to reject Olympus, giving her girdle to Hippolyte and leading her followers away. Once at the Aegean, the remaining Amazons are told by their goddesses that as penance for their failure they must guard a great evil hidden on an island paradise. Though they must now keep manacles on their wrists as a symbol of their former bondage, they will remain immortal as long as they keep watch and allow no mortal man to set foot on their new home. For thousands of years the Amazons follow their goddesses’ command, building a civilization based on peace and justice as they make sure the great evil remains hidden.

As the centuries pass, the Amazons slowly lose contact with the gods, except the oracle Menalippe. Hippolyte asks about the strange yearnings she’s been feeling lately, so the oracle explains how the Amazons are reincarnations, but only the queen was pregnant at the time of her first death (presumably she was the caveman’s wife from the beginning of the issue) and that she’s hearing the call of her unborn daughter. She’s instructed to sculpt an infant out of clay, and the goddesses send the last soul from the womb of Gaea into the child, each granting her a blessing: from Demeter, power and strength; from Aphrodite, beauty and a loving heart; from Athena, wisdom; from Artemis, the eye of a hunter and unity with the beasts; from Hestia, fire to open men’s hearts to her; and from Hermes, who I guess had nothing better to do that day, speed and flight. Her mother names her Diana after a great and holy Amazon warrior who died nobly that the Amazons might live. The girl grows up, loved by all and surrounded by the wisdom and strength of thousands of years of Amazonian culture, until the day that Menalippe has a vision of Ares gone insane, his power multiplied a thousandfold to the point that it consumes the entire world, including their island paradise. For whatever reason the gods are unable to stop him, but command the Amazons to choose a champion to fight against the god of war. The queen declares a tournament, but Diana is told she is too young to compete. Wanting a purpose in life, Diana prays to Athena, who tells her her time has come. Cue the tournament, the masked Diana is revealed to be the winner. Hippolyte wants to forbid it, but knows she can’t fight the will of the gods when she learns Athena spoke to her daughter. That night at the temple of Hades, which appears to be the Amazon equivalent of a cemetery, the princess is given final test called the Trial of Flashing Thunder. Philippus, the head of the Amazon army, pulls out a modern-day pistol that she says she’s not seen since “the tragedy” and fires it at Diana. She blocks the bullets with the silver bracelets she won as champion, and she is given special warrior’s garb based on the standard of the warrior after whom she was named, which seems to be an emblem of blue and yellow stars with a red winged W symbol that appears on both the box that held the gun and a tomb in the temple. As the sun rises, the Amazons cheer to see their new champion: Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman vol. 4 issue 1: The Visitation

The New, Original Wonder Woman

He’s discovered by Princess Diana, who takes him to her mother. The queen initially allows him to be nursed to health by Diana, but when her daughter starts falling for the Major insists he must be taken home as the presence of a man will destroy the tranquility of Paradise Island. She holds a tournament to see who will take him, where—you know the drill by now: Diana wins disguised in a mask and wig. She dons the costume her mother made so that the Americans will know she is on their side, then flies an invisible plane to DC with the recovering Trevor. During the flight he awakens and, seeing himself among the clouds, asks if he’s in heaven.

Diana delivers him to the hospital, then explores this new world, waiting for him to fully recover. Discovering that she needs money to buy a dress, she accepts a talent agent’s offer to make her famous after he sees her block bullets with her bracelets while stopping a robbery. During a stage performance a Nazi spy fails to kill her with a machine gun. The talent agent’s plans to tour her across the county are cancelled when Wonder Woman learns Steve has recovered, but when he tries to take her half of the money she easily defeats him. Disguising herself as a nurse, Diana checks on Steve, who awakens and, remembering seeing her face among the clouds, wonders if she’s an angel.

Meanwhile the Military learns the Nazis are sending another bomber, so Steve leaves the hospital but is kidnapped by Nazi spies and, after being given truth serum, tells them how to find the plans for the new bomb. When Nurse Diana learns Steve’s no longer at the hospital, she performs her first soon-to-be-famous spinning costume change and heads to his office to discover that his secretary is a spy. A fight ensues, ending with Diana using her lasso of truth to learn about the second bomber and where Steve is hidden. She uses the invisible plane to takes out the Nazi aircraft then rescues Steve from the remaining spies. The next day Major Trevor arrives at his office and is introduced to his new secretary: Diana Prince, who in no way looks like Wonder Woman wearing a uniform and glasses, nosireebob.