Cover Credits |
Artist: Harry G. Peter |
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Comic Title: Wonder Woman #9
Publisher: DC
(Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: Summer 1944
Approx. On Sale Date:
May 17, 1944 Copyright Date May 13, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
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
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Title: "Evolution Goes Haywire"
Pages: 38
Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (of Earth-2)
Writer: William Moulton Marston
Artist: Harry G. Peter
Reprinted In:
Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 4 HC (2004)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2017)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Vol. 3 TPB (2019)
Feature Character(s)
- Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #31; next appearance in All-Star Comics #21)
Supporting Character(s)
- Steve Trevor (last appearance in Sensation Comics #31; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #7)
- Etta Candy (last appearance in Sensation Comics #31; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #7)
- Holliday Girls (last appearance in Sensation Comics #30; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #7)
- Hippolyte (appears in flashback to Greek times; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #24)
- Amazons (appear in flashback to Greek times; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #23)
Villain(s)
- Giganta (first appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #28)
- Tree men (no further appearances)
- Jon, Domo, and a group of rebels (no further appearances)
- Achilles (no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Professor Zool (next appearance in Wonder Woman #28)
- Queen Darla and King Aros (no further appearances)
- Dotsie (Steve Trevor's niece; no further appearances)
Comments:
Part 2: "The Freed Captive"
Part 3: (Wonder Woman Vs. Achilles)
Synopsis:
A female gorilla named Giganta kidnaps Steve Trevor's niece Dotsie. Wonder Woman rescues Dotsie, then the gorilla is subjected to Professor Zool's evolution experiments. Giganta is transformed into a human with a primitive brain.
An accident with the evolutionizer causes, Wonder Woman, Giganta, Zool, Steve Trevor, and the Holliday Girls to be thrown back to the time of cave men, and they begin exhibiting primitive behavior. Giganta joins a race of tree men in battling Wonder Woman. The Amazon successful protects her friends and reactivates the evolutionizer.
This time the machine throws the time travelers into a Golden Age where peace exists. Giganta helps to start a rebellion by the lower classes bringing an end to the Golden Age. Wonder Woman activates the evolutionizer again and finds herself in ancient Greece. She meets her mother and the Amazons years before she was born. Wonder Woman defeats Achilles, then she and the other time travellers return to their own time.
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