Wonder Woman, #27
Published: January-February 1948
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Issue Contents:
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
- Etta Candy
Credits
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Secret of the Kidnapped Dummy!
Storyline
Paula builds a Diana Prince robot dummy to present an award to Wonder Woman, unaware that the ceremony will make both women targets for a gangster's revenge. To cover her secret identity, after the crooks shoot the Diana Prince dummy, the Amazon Maiden takes the dummy to Paradise Island to bring "Diana" back to life.
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
- Steve Trevor
- General Darnell
- Paula von Gunther
- the Amazons
- Queen Hippolyte
- Grubber Graff (villain, introduction)
- Pic Socket (villain, introduction)
- Mick McDuff (villain, introduction)
Credits
- Script:
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously credited William Marston. General Darnell calls Diana Prince the "top woman G-2 operator." Wonder Woman visits Mount Olympus, depicted here as a mountain with a 100-ton boulder resting on the summit to protect the precious Olympic clay underneath. The ceremony takes place at "Radison" Square Garden.
Editorial Advisory Board
Featuring A Date with Judy
The Story of Sacajawea
Storyline
Story of Sacajawea, an Indian woman who aided Lewis and Clark in their search for a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean through her resourcefulness and knowledge of the land.
Characters
- Sacajawea
Credits
- Pencils: Maxwell Atoms
- Inks: Maxwell Atoms
Story Notes
Art identification by Craig Delich.
You'd Have to Be Crazy--
Featuring Comic Cavalcade
The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!
Storyline
On a visit to Etta's Ranch in Texas, Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls fend off rustlers with the help of Rainbow and Stardust, two legendary horses. When Rainbow is shot, the Amazon Maiden uses a topical version of the Purple Ray to heal the wound.
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
- Etta Candy
- Hard Candy
- the Holliday Girls
- Rainbow (a wild horse, introduction)
- Stardust (a wild horse, introduction)
- Miss Trixie (introduction)
- various circus performers (introduction for all)
- gang of horse rustlers (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
- Script: Joop Bonarius
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher.
Featuring School-Daze
"Johnny! You ought to know better..."
Credits
- Script: Harry Lampert
- Pencils: Harry Lampert
- Inks: Harry Lampert
- Letters: Harry Lampert
Story Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Willie Wonder
Featuring All-American Comics
The Great Problem
Credits
- Script: Ted Udall
Featuring Pet-Laffs
"I guess that'll teach Rover..."
Credits
- Script: Harry Lampert
- Pencils: Harry Lampert
- Inks: Harry Lampert
- Letters: Harry Lampert
Rescue from the Wreck
The Mystical Power of Idea-Forms!
Storyline
Panicking when Wonder Woman is sucked from the robot plane on the way to Paradise Island, Etta is reassured by Hippolyte, who shows in the Magic Sphere Wonder Woman has been taken to the past as an "idea-form" to help a young girl save her kingdom from an evil usurper.
Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
- Etta Candy
- the Holliday Girls
- Queen Hippolyte
- the Amazons
- Annette Dubois (introduction)
- Philippe Francois (King of Barania, introduction)
- Count Gaston (villain, introduction)
- King Erzatz (villain, introduction)
- Princess Hyeenia Ersatz (villain, the King's daughter, introduction)
- Whizbam (villain, Dungeon guard, introduction)
- various soldiers (villains, introduction for all)
Credits
- Script: Joop Bonarius
- Pencils: Harry Peter
- Inks: Harry Peter
Story Notes
Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Alvin Schwartz. Idea-forms are statues of people or inventions that existed as ideas before they were realized, like DaVinci's airplane, Jules Verne's submarine, or Wonder Woman, a strong but tender woman. People with inventive or desperate minds draw cosmic rays from the idea-forms when they need help realizing their visions. In this case, Wonder Woman actually appears in the past when Annette wishes there were a woman "tender enough to understand my need but strong enough" to defeat her enemies. The statues and models are housed in a room in Hippolyte's palace called the "Storehouse of Idea-Forms."
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.