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mosellegreen (mosellegreen) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-24 11:36:00

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char: etta candy, char: paula von gunther, char: steve trevor, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, creator: william moulton marston, era: golden age, publisher: dc comics, title: wonder woman

Golden Age Wonder Woman Crack
This was first published in 1945.

Steve Trevor takes Diana Prince out to dinner, but naturally after they've been there a while he reveals that they're there on business. There's a spy who's making his rendezvous at the restaurant or something. Anyway, he gets shot dead, which is bad because that means he can't tell the good guys what he's up to.

Steve is mightily impressed, but Wonder Woman's miffed at him for snubbing her as Diana Prince.

Margo is all ready to pet Steve's bruised ego.

He takes her home, and while they're still in front of her mansion, a bunch of bad men she's had dealings with show up with guns and apprehend them both. They take them inside the mansion for some gratuitous bondage:

Wonder Woman is a member of an immortal race, the Fountain of Youth is on her island, and she's wondering what beauty parlor Margo uses?

Steve shows off his maturity:

"The folder", by the way, contains top secret intelligence.

Steve is about to walk down the aisle when Paula summons Wonder Woman:

Wonder Woman confronts Margo, who squirts knockout gas in her face. She wakes up in yet another form of bondage, and Etta and the Holliday Girls come to the rescue:

Sometimes I really wonder what wonders Marston would have come up with if he'd been writing actual smut. He was so creative with G-rated bondage, think what he could have done had he been able to utilize body parts normally covered by clothes.
No, wait, on second thought, don't think of that. It would be scary.

You were going to join for life with a woman you considered a witch just to show your girlfriend that you weren't tied to her apron strings? Smart move, Steve! That'll show her, all right!

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bluefall
2009-05-24 10:55 am UTC (link)

Silly of him. He doesn't need to show her he's an idiot, that was well established by that point.

In other news, Etta calling Wonder Woman "the Chief" delights me in ways I'm hard-pressed to explain. The way Wondy and the sorority girls occupy this weird nebulous space between "Man's World Amazon army" and "band of madcap rogues" and appear to exist completely independent of any actual academic establishment in any way is just so entertainingly cracky.

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	thandrak 2009-05-24 11:11 am UTC (link)
	Indeed! I was hoping that the Amazon Scouts plotlet from the 80s? The one with the bracers fad? was going to lead into a more modern version of this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-25 01:11 am UTC (link)
	"Amazon scouts'? Pray tell all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-05-25 08:29 am UTC (link)
	If I could remember, I'd be able to say more, but there was a fad briefly where someone was selling Amazon bracers to teen girls, and then Diana took ownership of it, and it went nowhere, but I remember thinking it could have been awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mosellegreen 2009-05-25 11:08 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I remember that! It was only mentioned in one issue, I think the first Annual written by George Perez. The bracelets were expensive and became a clique-y thing, and the Mean Girls used them to keep Nessie's friend Eileen from getting into the club, so Diana started giving them out for free. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-05-25 11:54 am UTC (link)
	Right, right, that's the story. That could have been so used for something awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-05-25 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	I think Jimenez made some effort to tie that story in to the whole "Wonder Scouts" thing that Polly may or may not have been responsible for and which only ever got any kind of actual play in that brief pre-Luke-era fill with Poseidon's son... ... that's one of those "only in comics" type sentences, isn't it? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-25 03:27 pm UTC (link)
	That DOES sound like it could have been cool. The Junior Amazons! The Amazon Girl Scouts! I'm picturing Wondy running along the street towards a crime, with a group of girls of various ages from about nine to eighteen, all dressed in WW costumes, running behind her, eager to win merit badges. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-05-24 11:20 am UTC (link)
	Seriously, Golden-Age Steve Trevor has to be one of the most useless dorks in the history of uselessness and dorkiness. Golden-Age Diana should've taken up with Etta...had the 1940s been more like the 2000s. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Because it had to be done: perletwo 2009-05-24 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	I tried to clean up the text a little - hope it's still readable enough. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Because it had to be done: nevermore999 2009-05-24 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, Steve, she plans to strangle you with her apron strings...after she finds an apron. Good icon- the text is very readable! (Reply to this) (Parent)