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mosellegreen (mosellegreen) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-25 12:05:00

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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
This issue was published in 1946.

That opening pretty much says it all.

They have plane trouble and land, only to find themselves under attack by armored knights.

One of the knights gets Wonder Woman on the back of the head with a mace. With her unconscious, Steve surrenders so they won't kill her. When she comes to, they talk it over in the dungeon:

And they've seen no reason to change their ways in the past thousand years. Hey, why not?

Wonder Woman's bracelets were chained while she was unconscious, so she can't bust them out. Guards come for Steve, only they keep calling him "Hubert". He objects; who wouldn't object to being called "Hubert"?

They're about to behead him in the public square when some guys in hose and feathered caps rescue him and take him off to ~~Sherwood~~the forest.

Robin of Locksley fills him in on the story till now.

That line cracked me up. For one thing, medieval people wouldn't have put it even remotely in those terms.

Check out how dashing Hubert is!

Wonder Woman's still in the dungeon:

The picture of her going through the window always bugged me. How did she get up there? It doesn't look like she jumped....

Hubert escapes, saying he'll come back for the fair maids, but before he gets back, the women are taken to interrogation.

At last, Wonder Woman figures out what's going on:

What woman doesn't keep acid in her purse?

Well, that was a bloodless revolution. "Splendid idea - I'll do it!"

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	cricharddavies 2009-05-25 11:29 am UTC (link)
	Well, that was a bloodless revolution. "Splendid idea - I'll do it!" In fairness, it's made clear in the story that Hubert had no real taste for being a king. ("Never didst thou love royal pomp.") And it's subverted slightly by Signa's statement that he'll probably wind up in charge anyway. (Reply to this)

	seriousfic 2009-05-25 11:35 am UTC (link)
	So in a thousand years, they've gone from medieval torture to... giant kettles. That's progress for you. (Reply to this)

	04nbod 2009-05-25 11:49 am UTC (link)
	there are so many lines in the art work. Detailed sure but seeing every brick really makes the page look busy (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-05-25 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	What source are you getting these from that the images are so crisp ? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mosellegreen 2009-05-25 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	The Archive Edition collections. Oh, but this one is from the 1977 WW collection I linked to the other day. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkcarrier 2009-05-25 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	I love the artwork in this era. It's like an Art Nouveau woodcut or something. Signa's dress is awesome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sianmink 2009-05-25 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	Same pattern fabric that's on the royal throne. How embarrassing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	irenem 2009-05-26 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	I love so much about Golden Age everything--decent writing considering that they were basically throwaway stories for kids, pretty art, women who are just as bad-ass as men, the bitchin'-est lettering... which is why I can never fully enjoy Silver Age crack, because it seems like such a loss. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-05-26 03:24 am UTC (link)

Well, THAT'S an imaginative torture. A giant kettle that drips from its spout, causing a gigantic stone block to lower? THAT took some thinking on somebody's part. I wonder what other tortures they have? A bath in a sugar solution, then imprisonment near the slowly-opening enclosure of a horde of ravenous giant hummingbirds? A 'Pit and the Pendulum' trap in reverse, where you are chained TO a pendulum and swung slowly downwards towards a host of glittering blades? The possibilities are endless.

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