Wonder Woman, #8

Published: Spring 1944

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Wonder Woman #8

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Issue Contents:
Wonder Woman and the Adventures of the Undersea Amazons
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
Credits
Story Notes

Steve Trevor's hair is mistakenly colored red.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Waste Paper
Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Story 3 0 pages
[Part 1] Queen Clea's Tournament of Death
Story 4 14 pages superhero
Storyline

Wonder Woman flies to legendary Atlantis, where two queens reign over two nations: Queen Clea of Venturia and Queen Eeras of Aurania. The women of Atlantis are giantesses, and the men (manlings) are puny weaklings. Long ago, Atlantis sank into the sea and was enclosed under the ocean in a pocket of air with phosphorescent rocks on the ceiling for light and warmth, and volcanoes that extend above the ocean for air; many prehistoric creatures extinct in the upper world still exist in Atlantis. Steve, on the trail of a chemical compound, has wound up a prisoner there in the midst of a civil war.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • General Darnell
  • Steve Trevor
  • Queen Eeras (introduction)
  • the Auranians (introduction for all)
  • a Russian lab assistant (introduction)
  • a Nazi agent (introduction)
  • Queen Clea (villain, introduction)
  • The Venturians (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
Story Notes

The patron goddesses of Atlantis are Madra and Satana, Queen of Devils.

The Big Eight: Tops in Monthly Comic Magazines
Story 5 1 page
[Part 2] The Girl with the Iron Mask
Story 6 13 pages superhero
Storyline

A little girl's tale of giant women parachuting from volcanoes brings Wonder Woman back to Atlantis, where Queen Clea schemes to create an army of men from the outer world.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
  • Etta Candy
  • the Holliday Girls
  • Ellie Paxton (introduction)
  • Ed Paxton (introduction)
  • Mrs. Paxton (Ed's wife, introduction)
  • Bill Barnacle (introduction)
  • group of U.S. sailors (introduction for all)
  • Queen Eeras
  • the Auranians
  • Princess Ptra (villain, Clea's daughter, introduction)
  • Queen Clea (villain)
  • The Venturians (villains)
  • Nazi P.O.W.'s (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
Commando Training with Thom McAn
Story 7 2 pages
Credits
Story 8 1 page

"No planes approaching, Sarg..."

Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Story 9 4 pages biography
Storyline

Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse born in 1884, developed a breakthrough treatment for Infantile Paralysis (Polio) that was counter to the established treatment at the time.

Characters
  • Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Credits
Story Notes

Credits verified to Jerry Bails. William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator, was himself a victim of Polio, relegating him to a wheelchair in his later years.

Hop Harrigan's Leaflet Raid
Story 10 1 page aviation
Characters
  • Hop Harrigan

Featuring Picture Stories from the Bible

Story 11 1 page
[Part 3] The Captive Queen
Story 12 11 pages superhero
Storyline

Clea escapes from Transformation Island and brings a captive Wonder Woman back to Atlantis -- only to become a prisoner herself when the manlings take control.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Etta Candy
  • the Holliday Girls
  • General Darnell
  • Mala
  • Queen Eeras
  • The Auranians
  • Princess Octavia (Eeras' daughter, new leader of Venturia, introduction)
  • Princess Ptra (villain)
  • Queen Clea (villain)
  • The Venturians (villains)
  • a group of Atlantean manlings (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
Story 13 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Captain Tootsie and the Secret Weapon!
Story 14 1 page superhero

"Good night, Rollo."

Storyline

Nazi spies try to kidnap Rollo to discover his secret weapon, but they are foiled by Captain Tootsie.

Credits
Story Notes

Back cover.