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Golden Age Wonder Woman
This issue was published in 1949.



I really love Diana's dress.

Ursula runs into the street, so Diana makes a lightning-fast change into Wonder Woman to save her from an oncoming car. Ursula has a good cry and tells her all about it:


Turns out Aunt Abigail has a Miss Havisham complex. Every single night she reenacts the wedding day that never happened when her fiance jilted her at the altar.



They make a big deal of Wonder Woman going to Paula and using superadvanced Amazon technology to clean up Abigail's scratched-up old photo of John Hunter. Then Wonder Woman uses her Amazon speed to go through a zillion file cabinets of mug shots, until:


Wonder Woman goes to arrest Logox AKA John Hunter, who is the head of a jewel stealing gang, but she frets at length about the effect that learning the truth about him will have on Abigail. She believes the shock will kill her. When she tries to capture the gang, they manage to tie her up with her lasso and make her explain why she's after them all of a sudden. Reminded of Abigail's existence, Logox goes to her house, apparently to taunt her with the fact that he jilted her decades ago and tell her that he is a criminal. In order to spare Abigail this revelation, Wonder Woman grabs a huge sheet of ice from a nearby frozen lake, jumps up on the roof, and:


Having foiled Logox's conversation, Wonder Woman arrests him and then sets up an elaborate scenario, which for some reason that eludes me she thinks will be less painful to Abigail:

I'm pretty sure Ursula's exaggerated cowlick there is an ink blot, but when I was a child I wondered if that was the fashion in hairdos at the time.

You know, except for when the bad guys used her lasso on her, there's no other bondage in this issue. It hardly feels like WW at all.