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mosellegreen (mosellegreen) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-04 12:29:00

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

Golden Age Wonder Woman
Today's scans are about the same Fun Clinics mentioned in yesterday's. They're from "The Malice of the Green Imps", originally published in Sensation Comics #28 in 1944, reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives Volume 4. (Those volumes are indispensable for the Golden Age Wonder Woman geek.)

I could give context to the Amazing Amazon's apparent condoning of organized crime, but it's more fun not to.

Diana Prince's boss gets her on the phone at the end of the story:

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	fungo_squiggly 2009-08-04 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	That was the great thing about Golden Age Diana. If she told someone that she was "tied up" (in either of her identities), they'd just assume that she meant it literally and not ask any further questions. (Reply to this)

	sistermagpie 2009-08-04 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Does Diana ever set up these schemes any more? It seems like along with the bondage her trademark in the old days was elaborate community projects involving lots of local girls and women. (Reply to this) (Thread)

jarodrussell
2009-08-04 05:19 pm UTC (link)

See, see...this! I would totally read Wonder Woman¹ if it had a Leverage/Macgyver thing going where Diana, in her mission of peace, went about solving local problems in gimmicky, non-violent ways. That would make her something different than Batman and Superman, follow along with her origins, and be a fun read.

(1. Assuming it was written by someone like Adam Warren, Joe Casey, or someone who truly got how that kind of dynamic worked.)

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	sistermagpie 2009-08-04 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously, if Diana started like an international organization for volunteering? Girls would be all over that. I can totally see an "I'm a Wondergirl!" movement doing all sorts of community outreach with older girls having more responsibility for younger ones etc. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jarodrussell
2009-08-04 05:58 pm UTC (link)

That kind of thing could easily be spun out into free publicity online. Imagine Wondergirl iPhone apps that tied users into the same network used in the book. Take a page from Adam Warren's Gali_girl that feed into the app, build a minimal website/Twitter feed/Flickr feed, and your Wonder Woman book has an automatic advertising network. Plus, the stories are then topical, modern, and fun.

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	darklorelei 2009-08-05 02:29 am UTC (link)
	So much motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-08-05 07:29 am UTC (link)

There's something like that in the first volume of 'Astro City', where Winged Victory, who is basically Wondy in most respects, talks about her life, and how she's started a chain of women's shelters that also teach self-defense classes. I agree, it would absolutely make sense for Wondy to do stuff like that - after all, as the ambassador for another country, she's probably the one superhero who has enough legitimate clout to be allowed to do something like that.

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	taggerung301 2009-08-04 05:28 pm UTC (link)
	does every issue of golden age wonder woman involve bondage and the such, or are we just looking at a select few? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	liarashadowsong 2009-08-04 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	From what I've heard, it's basically all of them that have bondage and such, and the ones in more recent re-collections like the ones we've been largely seeing scans from are actually sometimes the more bondage-light Golden Age Wonder Woman comics. Of course, I could be incorrect; even if I am, that's a lot of bondage. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-08-04 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	It's pretty much all of them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-08-05 07:32 am UTC (link)
	So let me guess - those little 'envy demons' prancing around on Prude and Smack are actually sent by Mars to foul up Wondy's life, am I right? (Reply to this)