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mosellegreen ([info]mosellegreen) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-15 10:46:00

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Entry tags:char: etta candy, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: william moulton marston, era: golden age, publisher: dc comics, title: sensation

Golden Age Wonder Woman


I've figured it out. What's cool about Etta Candy is, though she's a comic character, Marston allowed her to be a real person too. She's brave and tough and loyal and has high aspirations. Here she's actually trying to send Wonder Woman a mental radio message, even though she hasn't been trained to do it.





I love how unapologetic she is. In a world where anorexic models faint on the runway and emaciated young women sign up with Weight Watchers, we need a woman who isn't in the least intimidated by the command to diet.




I have to say, Diana seems to be awfully calm about a girl being thrown down a mine shaft.


Etta protects her own. Give me Etta over a truckload of scrawny supermodels!


Get a load of Diana's ensemble here.

It turns out evil people were forcing Pepita to do bad things. Wonder Woman trounces the evil people, and:



Stick to your guns, Etta!


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[info]rab62
2009-07-15 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Excuse me? That line IS the golden age.

I'm afraid I'll have to sentence you to watch Bringing Up Baby (1938), Ball of Fire (1941), and The Lady Eve (1941), plus two Mae West films to be named later.

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[info]darklorelei
2009-07-15 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Bringing Up Baby looooove.

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[info]blake_reitz
2009-07-15 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps I should have specified "Golden Age Comics", upon which I can now see Wonder Woman was on the top of the heap.

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[info]rab62
2009-07-15 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Sounds about right!

Yeah, I knew you meant comics, but my point in naming those films is that they were a big influence on the comics and genre writers of the era. That kind of snappy repartee on the big screen is what they aspired to deliver on the page. (Also, in the prewar era the women characters could banter along with the men and weren't expected to be demure wallflowers, as they were in the postwar years...and this got reflected in the comics as well.)

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