Golden Age Wonder Woman

[mosellegreen.insanejournal.com]

These are from Sensation Comics #17, 1943.

And in another issue, Steve takes his niece to the zoo and she gets attacked by the gorilla who becomes Giganta. You'd think he'd learn to keep his nieces away from zoos.


Evidently the zookeeper is a Nazi spy. Of course the Germans wouldn't have had the sense to teach their agents to pronounce W's before sending them undercover over here, and this guy wouldn't have been investigated the first time he pronounced a W as a V.


That is messed up.


I love how she makes the lion purr. (Big cats do purr, by the way, but they can only do it as they exhale, whereas housecats can do it continuously.


And that's... the only bondage in this issue. I'm shocked.


I certainly agree with Diana Prince about that.

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Comments

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Hehe. The last panel made me giggle.

Man: Madam who is CLEARLY not Wonder Womann, where is Wonder Woman?
Diana: Did I put on the wrong- I men she told me she couldn't come here, she had an emergency you see.

[tavella.insanejournal.com]

Heh. I like the little WWII touch here -- "kids! keep an eye out for spies!" I guess it wasn't unrealistic at the time, though I suspect it resulted in more random town oddballs getting harassed than anything else.

[rab62.insanejournal.com]

Sure, after all, it's not as if we've given kids a similar message at some time in recent memory... ;-)

[nevermore999.insanejournal.com]

Kewl, Wonder Woman saved the lion! (Apparently it got killed later, but her heart's in the right place)

Also, I love her sarcasm when she gets captured. "Oh no, d'you suppose she'll hurt me?" Shine on, you crazy Diana.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

That was pretty common with Golden Age Diana. She looked at our whole world with a kind of youthful delighted condescension, like isn't it cute that we take sturdy iron bars and the superiority of men over women so seriously. It was a significant part of her charm, in fact.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

I imagine that line spoken with an undertone of hope. Remember: Marston's Amazons thought that tennis rackets were large (but exceedingly flimsy) spankers when they first saw them.

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Personally, I would have started to suspect that the kids were telling the truth when they talked about 'station CC' and 'tanks'. I mean, this is in the middle of WW2 - talking lions are a little out there, sure, but A: it sure SOUNDS like espionage is afoot, and B: this is GOLDEN AGE WONDER WOMAN the kids are talking to! She gets involved in weirder stuff than that every day of the week - this is the woman who once went up against evil anthropomorphic corncobs. She attracts bizarre happenings by her very presence - ANYTHING odd that happens around her should be investigated with the utmost scrutiny. If the wino on the street corner starts ranting about pink elephants as she passes by, you can bet your sweet bippy that pink elephants are going to start stampeding down the street any second now. Possibly EVIL pink elephants, with machine gun trunks or something. You never know with Wonder Woman.