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Artist: Harry G. Peter |
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Comic Title: Wonder Woman #4
Publisher: DC
(Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1943
On Sale Date:
February 19, 1943 Newsstand Date February 19, 1943
Source: House Ad, Sensation Comics #16, Page 14,
Flash Comics #40, Page 43
Copyright Date February 16, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Sheldon Mayer
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Title: (Man-Hating Madness)
Pages: 15
Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (of Earth-2)
Writer: William Moulton Marston
Artist: Harry G. Peter
Reprinted In:
Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 2 HC (2000)
Wonder Woman Chronicles Vol. 3 TPB (2013)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Vol. 2 TPB (2019)
Feature Character(s)
- Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #16; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
Supporting Character(s)
- Steve Trevor (last appearance in Sensation Comics #16; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Etta Candy (last appearance in Sensation Comics #16; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Colonel Darnell (last appearance in Sensation Comics #16; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Hippolyte (last appearance in Wonder Woman #3; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Paula Von Gunther (last appearance in Wonder Woman #3; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Amazons (last appearance in Wonder Woman #3; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Mala (last appearance in Wonder Woman #3; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
Villain(s)
- General Hideo, General Von Bop, and various members of the Japanese military (no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Mae Wu (a chinese girl; no further appearances)
- Five prisoners of the Amazons (Jeane named; no further appearances)
- Aphrodite (last appearance in Wonder Woman #3; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
- Generals Tling and Brown (no further appearances)
Comments:
This story continues in part in the second story of Wonder Woman #4.
This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 2 in which this story is reprinted.
Synopsis:
Wonder Woman meets a chinese girl, Mae Wu, with whip scars caused by Japanese soldiers. The girl wants to remove the scars, but spies kill her before she can have the operation. Wonder Woman brings her body to Paradise Island where Paula Von Gunther restores her to life.
Wonder Woman, Paula, and Mae return to the Man’s World and visit China. After discovering the marks on Mae’s back are a code to relay secret information to Japanese spies, Wonder Woman fights to get a list of all Japanese spies in America. She obtains the list with the help of Paula and uses it to round up the spies, who planned to release a gnats that would drive American women to turn on their men.
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