Comic Title: Wonder Woman #12
Publisher: DC (Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: Spring 1945
Approx. On Sale Date: February 14, 1945 Copyright Date February 12, 1945
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1945
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: (The Winged Maidens of Venus)
Pages: 38

Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Joyce Murchison
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Reprinted In:
Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 5 HC (2007)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #40; next appearance in All-Star Comics #24)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in Sensation Comics #40; next appearance in Sensation Comics #41)
• Etta Candy (last appearance in Sensation Comics #40; next appearance in Sensation Comics #41)
• Holliday Girls (last appearance in Sensation Comics #40; next appearance in Sensation Comics #41)
• Paula Von Gunther (last appearance in Sensation Comics #32; next appearance in Sensation Comics #50)

Villain(s)

• Velma and Killer Dogan (no further appearances)
• Nerva (Steve Trevor's secretary; no further appearances)
• Pierre Fenati (president of Third World War Promoters; no further appearances)
• Bird Boswell and a group of international munitions manufacturers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Queen Desira and natives of Venus (last appearance in Sensation Comics #11; next appearance in Wonder Woman #13)
• Gay and Hester (Holliday Girl pledges; no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Ordeal of Fire"
Part 3: "The Conquest of Venus"

This story was not originally titled. The title given here was used on this issue's cover.

Synopsis:
Wonder Woman uses her earrings with the power of magnetic hearing to contact Queen Desira of Venus. She learns that a group of munitions manufacturers are plotting to start a third world war. Diana Prince is taken prisoner by one of their agents who is posing as Steve's secretary. Diana manages to get free and stop the conspirators as Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman turns the plotters over to Desira for reformation. She sends them to Venus using a teleporter in Paula's lab.

Later, two Holliday Girl pledges accidentally activate the teleporter. One of the girls is sent to Venus, then releases a conspirator named Velma. Wonder Woman goes back to Venus to stop an uprising led by Velma. She then brings the female villain back to Earth.

Velma escapes again, this time with the help of her boyfriend Killer Dogan. Velma and Dogan raid Paula's lab and send their gang to Venus to conquer. Wonder Woman and Paula are taken prisoner too. Queen Desira is forced to surrender, but Velma unleashes a bomb anyway. Wonder Woman frees herself and with the help of Paula, Queen Desira, and the other Venusians, Velma is stopped. The conspirators are then placed in Aphrodite girdles which force them to be submissive. The girdles are welded on until such time as the crooks prove that they have fully reformed.