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Golden Age Wonder Woman Bondage
These are from Sensation Comics #11, 1942.

You know, the comic book writers and artists of the 40's didn't know that they were the Golden Age. I'm sure it never occurred to any of them that decades later, adults would be reading their creations, analyzing them and laughing at the plot holes. They were just trying to pay the rent. They had to make those kids hand over that dime which might well be a whole week's allowance, so they used the most eye-catching gimmicks they could think of. "People like cowboys/ancient Egypt/leopard-skin-clad jungle queens," they would say. "Let's build a story around that." And they would, however far-fetched the combination might be.

And it's lucky for us that they did so, because it gave the more serious comic book writers of today, who know that adults are going to read their stories with a critical eye, all kinds of crazy elements that they have to try to get to make sense. Today's comic book readers want to have our cake and eat it too; we want our heroes to be from other planets or from lost civilizations, we want them to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we want them to run around doing good deeds in patriotically colored spandex... and we want the writer to make all of this make sense.

I love superhero comics.

Today's installment is basically The Story of O for kids. Really. No, really. It was very hard not to just scan the whole issue.

Queen Desira magnetized the earrings with her lips.
I have nothing to add to that.

Also, doesn't Wonder Woman think someone might notice her jumping out of Diana Prince's window?

So now we see what sort of place Eros is:



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Maybe it's just as well I wasn't a kid in the 40's. I only had a volume of carefully selected Golden Age reprints, which had enough bondage in them to probably warp me for life. If I'd been exposed to this too, I might've... um, been even weirder?


Just because this judge is on another planet is no reason her hairdo can't be just like that of an English judge's traditional wig.


And Rebla lives happily ever after in prison.