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For a change, Silver Age Wonder Woman crack
First, a couple of WW-related cartoons I cut out years ago.







These are from Wonder Woman #129, which is 30 pages long. I believe there are only two issues that featured Wonder Tot's boyfriend Mermite, and this is one of them.

Wonder Tot has her detractors, and it's not surprising; the cutesy way she refers to herself in the third person is highly irritating. (I have never heard any child do this in real life, though one mother on my F-list says her toddler sometimes does it.) However, I have a soft spot for her because she's such a driven little Amazon. While Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl are dithering over their boyfriends, she's honing her warrior skills and seeking adventure.

The canon about the identities of Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot is inconsistent. It seems at first, they were supposed to be Wonder Woman when she was younger. Then they started doing "Impossible Tales" like the one we're about to see by allegedly splicing together film of Diana at different ages. Later on, it seems they dropped this entirely and gave Wonder Woman two younger sisters. I haven't read them in order, so I can't remember if they did this in order or if they switched back and forth; the latter wouldn't surprise me at all.

Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Golden Age Steve Trevor was a cool guy. Silver Age Steve Trevor was a dick.





So, they just happened to have footage of Wonder Woman as a teenager explaining riding on air currents to her toddler self? One page in and they've already blown the "splicing" pretense.


See? Splicing my foot.


"Undersea oxygen reeds"?


Told you he was a dick.


Yes, it's always uplifting to see a grown man yell, "That's not fair!"


Again: they "spliced" Wonder Tot summoning her older selves? Guys, you're trying too hard to make this make sense.


I find it interesting that Hypolyte used that particular oath to preface a complaint about men.


I'd dump them both.

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From:[info]fredneil.livejournal.com
Date:July 9th, 2009 05:36 pm (UTC)
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The presence or absence of sexual organs should make Wonder Woman's decision a lot easier.

On the other hand, if I were Steve Trevor, I'd be seriously considering dumping the Amazon tramp. Here I am, supposedly in a serious relationship with her for decades, willing to wait for her to get over her committment issues, and suddenly I'm just one of her suitors?
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From:[info]saralakali
Date:July 9th, 2009 05:51 pm (UTC)
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They both have mouths. The trick is to get them to stop talking long enough to use them properly.
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From:[info]minarho1
Date:July 9th, 2009 06:11 pm (UTC)
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I heart you
From:[info]fredneil.livejournal.com
Date:July 9th, 2009 07:55 pm (UTC)
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Marston-era Trevor probably could and would have. Both of them in this story? Good luck with that.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 9th, 2009 07:49 pm (UTC)
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I really wonder at what point the writers stopped getting the point behind 'Suffering Sappho'...clearly the editors missed it from the start, and the Marstons obviously knew...but I can't imagine all the following writers tried to slip crap past the editors.
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 9th, 2009 10:39 pm (UTC)
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Technically, Sappho wasn't a "lesbian" as we understand it(though strictly geographically speaking, yes); she had lovers of both sexes and wrote love poetry about both. They didn't have a concept of "gay" and "straight" back then--people just did who they wanted.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:23 am (UTC)
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As it happens, they actually addressed this fact - or rather, pussyfooted around it. At some point during the Kanigher run, a kid was curious as to just what 'Suffering Sappho' meant, and Wondy informed the tyke that "Sappho was so sensitive, she couldn't stand suffering in any form". Yah-huh. Do tell.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:35 am (UTC)
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*snerk* Now that's just extra-funny.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 10th, 2009 08:16 am (UTC)
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It's weird - I KNOW that there's a naughty interpretation of this; my inner pervert snickers as I think about it, yet I don't... know... WHY, exactly. Clearly, my mind is not filthy enough.
From:[info]salad_barbarian
Date:July 11th, 2009 03:45 am (UTC)
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Just wait until the next porn week. What's left of your mind will be more than filthy enough. ;)
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From:[info]jlroberson
Date:July 9th, 2009 10:38 pm (UTC)
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What do I think, WW? I think you should break both their necks and go on with your day.
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From:[info]khaosworks
Date:July 9th, 2009 10:53 pm (UTC)
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I'd almost forgotten that Wonder-Tot's boyfriend had a name that sounded like a yeast extract spread.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:30 am (UTC)
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Yeah, that made me chuckle, too.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:29 am (UTC)
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This is pretty fun stuff, actually - I've always been a bit curious about this era of Wondy. I mean, yes, Steve, Manno and Mer-Boy are all acting like bozos (not Mer-Mite, though - he's actually pretty adorable. "Me, too, Wonder Tot! Let's play!" Awwww...), but at least no one is pretending that they aren't, and their byplay is fairly amusing, in a moronic sort of way. (If nothing else, it takes a fairly inventive mind to call Steve a 'water-soaked pigeon'.) I'd like to see more of this.
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From:[info]mosellegreen
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:47 am (UTC)
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And see more you will! Tomorrow's post will also be Silver Age. But those are the only two Silver Age issues I have, sorry.
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From:[info]mosellegreen
Date:July 10th, 2009 06:51 am (UTC)
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No, wait, I have *two* more Silver Age posts.
From:[info]psychop_rex
Date:July 10th, 2009 08:17 am (UTC)
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Yaaay!
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From:[info]dustbunny105
Date:July 10th, 2009 01:07 pm (UTC)
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Second Wondy scan, bottom panel; is anyone else a touch unnerved by Wonder Tot's expression? It reminds me somewhat of the Care Bare Stare.
From:[info]salad_barbarian
Date:July 11th, 2009 03:43 am (UTC)
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The splicing is being done with Amazonian technology so I say it's plausible.
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