Wonder Woman, #29

Published: May-June 1948

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Wonder Woman #29

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Prime Minister Blizzard
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Ice World's Conquest!
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Professor Chemico, having created a climate changing machine, travels with the Holliday Girls to the Arctic to melt the ice caps with his machine, unaware that a race of snow people live there, and that their Prime Minister intends to use the machine to control the world.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
  • General Darnell
  • Etta Candy
  • the Holliday Girls
  • Dean Sourpuss
  • Professor Chemico (a scientist from Holliday College)
  • Princess Snowina (Queen of the Icicle Men, introduction)
  • Snowina's subjects [Captain Iceberg
  • rest unnamed] (introduction for all)
  • Prime Minister Blizzard (villain, introduction)
Story Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher. Strangely, Professor Chemico wants to exacerbate Global Warming by increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; he intends to melt the ice caps to create more farmland to combat the world's food shortage.

Story 3 1 page
The Nick of Time
Story 4 1 page
Tale of the Tigers
Story 5 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Wonder Woman helps the Holliday Girls when they are caught between two Irish gypsies vying for the same girl and the title of Gypsy King.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
  • Dean Sourpuss
  • Etta Candy
  • the Holliday Girls
  • Paula von Gunther
  • Dion Boru (a gypsy, introduction, death)
  • Tama (a fortune teller, introduction)
  • Paddy Gypso (villain, introduction)
  • Paddy's gypsy band [Gorgio
  • rest unnamed] (villains, introduction for all)
Story Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher. Wonder Woman uses her "brain wave auditor" to hear the thoughts of a recently dead man.

The Secret That Saved the Sandlot
Story 6 1 page sports
Ranger Rescue
Story 7 1 page adventure
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Story 8 3 pages biography
Characters
  • Dorothea Lynde Dix
Credits
Story Notes

Art credits verified by Jerry Bails.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story 9 0 pages
Story 10 1 page

"Want action???"

Tino Makes Good
Story 11 2 pages adventure
Characters
  • Tino
Credits
The Treasure Hunt
Story 12 12 pages superhero
Storyline

The Holliday Girls travel to Adventure Island on a treasure hunt, and are warned and threatened with death until Wonder Woman arrives to protect her friends from a vengeful ghost while on the treasure hunt.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Steve Trevor
  • the Holliday Girls [Dorine
  • rest unnamed]
  • Jed Hatch (a caretaker, introduction)
  • Anthony Joseph (a fisherman, introduction)
  • Carlton Cabot (a property owner, introduction)
  • several city boys (introduction for all)
  • Lem Brite [as Black Hugo's Ghost] (villain, a lighthouse keeper, introduction) Black Hugo (villain, a pirate, introduction, in flashback)
Story Notes

Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher. Rare appearance of the Holliday Girls without Etta Candy.

Roping the Runaway Driver
Story 13 1 page adventure
Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado
Story 14 1 page superhero

"Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion visit an army airfield in the southwest."

Storyline

Captain Tootsie has the brilliant idea to fly airplanes directly into a tornado to break up the twister.

Credits
Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 16 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.