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Issue: Wonder Woman #4
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #4 of 329 Issues (475 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/16/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sheldon Mayer (editor); Alice Marble (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of February 19 in ad in Flash Comics #40.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #211, 214, 217, 300)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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FlagThe Wonder Woman Chronicles #3 published February 2012
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The Adventure of the Mole Men!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Harry Peter
Inker(s): Harry Peter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; Blakfu; Mole Men
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Rolf, an Elkhound of Norway

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Josette Frank
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Part 1: Man-Hating Madness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Marston [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Penciller(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Colonel Darnell; General Brown (introduction); General Tling (introduction); Etta Candy; the Amazons; five prisoners of the Amazons [Jeane; rest unnamed] (introduction for all); Queen Hippolyte; Mae Wu (a Chinese girl, death then is restored to life, introduction); Mala; Paula von Gunther; Aphrodite; General Sansu Hideo (villain, introduction); Major Fu (villain, introduction); General Von Bop (villain, introduction); General Blatsu (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Paula von Gunther undertakes a series of Amazon tests to prove herself worthy to serve Aphrodite, and her first test: aiding Wonder Woman foil a Japanese plot to drive American women insane.
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Pages: 15
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Rather than using the Purple Ray, Wonder Woman uses Paula's electrical machine to restore Mae Wu to life.
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Feature(s): Comic Cavalcade
First Line: Thanks, boys and girls...
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Feature(s): All-Star Comics; The Justice Society of America
First Line: The Justice Society goes into action again...
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Part 2: Mole Men of the Underworld

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Marston [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Penciller(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; General Darnell; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Mala; Paula von Gunther; the Queen's Messenger (introduction); Queen Hippolyte; Aphrodite; several Mole women [Calla; rest unnamed] (introduction for all); Blakfu (villain, introduction); the Mole Men (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: In her second test, Paula must reform the Mole Men of the underworld, which she and Wonder Woman accomplish by opening the Mole Men's eyes surgically to the beauty of the girls they enslave.
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Story title from Archives reprint.
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Lillian D. Wald "The Mother of New York's East Side"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Alice Marble
Penciller(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Inker(s): Sheldon Moldoff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Wonder Women of History
Character(s): Lillian D. Wald
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Story of Lillian D. Wald.

Credits verified by Jerry Bails.
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The Junior Justice Society of America

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Junior Justice Society of America
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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Part 3: The Rubber Barons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Marston [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Penciller(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; Colonel Darnell; Mala; the Amazons [Joan; rest unnamed] (introduction); Aphrodite; Paula von Gunther; rubber manufacturers [Ivar Torgson; Skelly; Cornelius R. Quod; Larry Hefton; Sigmund Spoil] (villains, introduction for all); Elva Dove (villain, intelligence clerk, introduction)
Synopsis: To complete the third test of Aphrodite, Paula uses her subconscious X-ray machine to understand the motives of war-profiteering rubber magnates, so as to "change the character of men and make them serve their fellow humans."
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story title from Archives reprint.
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Human Guinea Pig

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Feature(s): Hop Harrigan
Character(s): Hop Harrigan
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): A. W. Nugent
Penciller(s): A. W. Nugent
Inker(s): A. W. Nugent
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Victory Puzzles
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Pages: 0.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Feature(s): Picture Stories from the Bible
First Line: Over a million boys and girls...
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Part 4: The Treachery of Mavis

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Marston [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Penciller(s): Harry Peter [as Harry G. Peter] (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Peter [as Harry G. Peter] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Wonder Woman
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Queen Hippolyte; Colonel Darnell; Steve Trevor; Paula von Gunther; Paula's Slave Girls (introduction for all); Mala; Aphrodite; Aphrodite's Priestesses (introduction for all); the Amazons [Zoe; rest unnamed] (introduction for all); Gerta von Gunther; Mavis (villain, former slave of Paula, introduction)
Synopsis: Paula had passed her tests, but in failing to oversee the reformation of a slave girl and the rubber magnates, Wonder Woman has failed twice, which backfires when one of her charges takes revenge.
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The Big Eight!

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Feature(s): Webster's Complete Reference Dictionary and Encyclopedia
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Wonders of Science Simplified
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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