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Issue: Wonder Woman #23
Publication Date: May 1947
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Issues: #23 of 329 Issues (475 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/26/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 17 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; 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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A Story from Wonder Woman's Childhood

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Pages: 0.33
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Funny Stuff #21

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Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Hey, Dodo, what are you doin'?
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Promo for Funny Stuff (DC, 1944 series) #18.
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Siege of the Savage War Maidens

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Amazons [Sporta (introduction); rest unnamed]; several prisoners of Odin (introduction for all); The Valkyries [various unnamed] (vilains)
First Line: One by one, Amazon girls mysteriously disappear from Paradise Island.
Synopsis: When the heroes of Valhalla refuse to fight, Odin orders his Valkyries to capture Amazons and transform them into Valkyries, surmising they'll be strong enough to handle the lazy men. When Steve arrives to rescue the prisoners, the distraction allows the Amazon Princess to capture the real Valkyries.
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Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher.

Story refers to Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #17, "The Valkyries' Prey" (October-November 1946), Wonder Woman's first encounter with Gundra and the Valkyries. Odin is so demoralized by his defeat, he commits suicide at story's end, and the villain in the following story does the same.
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Rudy York

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Rudy York
First Line: Can't pitch, eh?
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Pokey Joe's Secret Weapon

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Genres: sports
Character(s): Jim Wise; Bob; Joe
First Line: It all started when the fellas were choosing sides...
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Amelia Earhart

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Genres: biography
Character(s): Amelia Earhart; Grace Earhart [as Pidge] (Amelia's sister); Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (Amelia's father); Katherine; Lucy; Frank Hawks; Amelia "Amy" Earhart (Amelia's mother)
First Line: Of all women aviators who ever lived, Amelia Earhart has been the most famous and most publicized.
Synopsis: Life story of Amelia Earhart (1898-1937), a record-breaking aviator who disappeared in the South Pacific attempting to circle the world at the equator.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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The Vanishing Mummy!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Holliday Girls [rest unnamed]; Professor Ainchent (an archaeologist, introduction); King Aknaten (villain, introduction, death); the King's followers (villains, Egyptians, introduction for all, all die)
First Line: In the Valley of the Kings in Egypt lies the root of all world chaos.
Synopsis: Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls travel to Egypt, where Professor Chemico has been enslaved by a resurrected pharaoh bent on destroying the modern world with a deadly gas.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher.

Aknaten is so demoralized by his defeat, he commits suicide at story's end and the villain in the previous story does the same.
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Grim Gamble

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Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): Pat Barnes; Judge Huneker; Kid Newsome
First Line: 'I'll bring in Kid Newsome because I''m a little smarter than he is,' Sheriff Pat Barnes had told Judge Huneker quietly.
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October 1 1946

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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Barton; Flossie; Polly (a parrot)
First Line: As an employee, Barton, you certainly are setting a very poor example!
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Disclose Notes: 4 gag cartoons.
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Wonder Woman and the Coming of the Kangas!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Amazons [rest unnamed]; The Sky Riders of Nebulosta (villains, introduction for all, all reform)
First Line: No one from our world has ever looked behind the clouds of mystery that conceal the story of Wonder Woman's childhood.
Synopsis: Queen Hippolyte shows the Holliday Girls a home movie of Princess Diana on her 7th birthday, when she rallies the Amazons against an invasion by the Sky Riders of Nebulosta who are riding Kangas.
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Disclose Notes: Writer credit from "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" (Jill Lapore, 2014); we previously suggested Robert Kanigher.

Story re-done in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #209 as "Attack of the Sky Demons." This story shows how Kangas arrived on Paradise Island; prior to this, Diana and her Amazon girls rode giant rabbits. 7-year old Diana wears bracelets in this story, although she was previously shown receiving them upon turning 15 in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #1. In the tradition of many Wonder Woman villains, the Skyriders pose as men but are revealed as women at story's end: Amazons who have lost their homeworld and they ask to remain on Paradise Island.
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Flash Comics #83

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First Line: A criminal convicted and executed comes back to life!!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #83 with cover preview and illustration from first page.
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The Wrong-Way Touchdown (Well, Almost!)

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Genres: sports
First Line: Fellows, I've just come back from a trip into the past on my magic 'bazooka-shoes.'
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