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Issue: Wonder Woman #20
Publication Date: November 1946
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Issues: #20 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 Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/25/1946
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 16 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Sheldon Mayer (editor); Robert Kanigher (assistant)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
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Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #211, 214, 217, 300)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Wonder Woman and Red Beard the Pirate!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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]; Red Beard; Nifty
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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First Line: Have you read these new issues yet?
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[Part 1] Terrors of the Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joye Murchison [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]; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; General Darnell; Steve Trevor; Professor Chemico; Nifty (villain, introduction); Redbeard (villain, Nifty's husband; introduction); the Air Pirates (villains, introduction for all); Karma Monster (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Diana Prince has a strange feeling about Etta's friend Nifty, and it's not just that she's secretly an air-pirate, intent on stealing Professor Chemico's formula for harnessing nuclear power. When Nifty summons up an ogre-type monster and captures Wonder Woman, he transports her and the pirates back in time.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Lampert
Penciller(s): Harry Lampert (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lampert (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Harry Lampert
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ton o' Fun
First Line: Why shouldn't I talk back to Grandfather?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Unrelated gag cartoons.
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Lucretia Mott

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Alice Marble
Penciller(s): Robert Sale [as Sal-Pete] (signed)
Inker(s): Robert Sale [as Sal-Pete] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Wonder Women of History
Character(s): Lucretia Mott
Synopsis: Story of Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), a Quaker minister and anti-slavery activist who used her eloquence to champion equal rights for women and blacks.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Motts left the Quakers in 1827 because the Quakers disapproved of her activism.

"Sal-Pete" signature was later used by Sal Trapani and Pete Morisi, but this predates their work in comics by a decade.
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Bo McMillin

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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[Part 2] The Rage of Redbeard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joye Murchison [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; Queen Hippolyte; Paula von Gunther; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Captain Redbeard (villain); Nifty (villain); the Karma monster (villain)
Synopsis: While the Karma Monster brings the Air Pirates to Charleston Harbor, circa 1750, where they battle Wonder Woman in an earlier incarnation as sea pirates, Paula transports Steve, Etta and the Holliday Girls back in time to aid the Amazon Princess. However, the monster then transports Wonder Woman and the rest to ancient Rome.
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Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Schwinn
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Lampert
Penciller(s): Harry Lampert (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lampert (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Harry Lampert
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Ton o' Fun
First Line: Since when are animals playing football?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

4 unrelated gag cartoons.
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The Case of the Horseshoe Nail

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Robinson (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Wheelan
Penciller(s): Ed Wheelan
Inker(s): Ed Wheelan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Wheelan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Out of the Gag-Bag
First Line: Our daughter has arranged a little piece...
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Disclose Notes: gags
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[Part 3] The Pirates' Galley Slave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joye Murchison [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 [as Stevus]; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Serva; Julius Caesar (introduction); Nifty [as Nifta] (villain); Rufus (villain); the Karma Monster (villain)
Synopsis: Wonder Woman and friends are reincarnated in Ancient Rome, where they fight for their lives in the arena and on the open seas. But when all foes are defeated, and Nifty surrenders, Wonder Woman promises to take her to Reform Island.
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Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails.

As her friends toast with wine, Wonder Woman opts for fruit juice. At story's end, it is explained Nifty's desire for revenge was powering the Karma Monster. In this chapter, Steve does not remember his later reincarnations, knowing only that he is Stevus, Roman gladiator.
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Feature(s): Utility Stores
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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How Thom McAn Stopped the Bus Smash-Up

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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