Comic Title: Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 4 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2004
On Sale Date: January 21, 2004 Direct Market Date January 21, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #11 (#179)

Direct Market Date January 21, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 204
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Adventure of the Kidnappers of Astral Spirits"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: William Moulton Marston
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Reprinted From:
Sensation Comics #25 (1944)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #24; next appearance in Wonder Woman #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in Sensation Comics #24; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #5)
• Etta Candy (last appearance in Sensation Comics #23; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #5)
• Holliday Girls (last appearance in Sensation Comics #23; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #5)

Villain(s)

• Vina Kling (a lawyer's wife and medium; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ernest Wright, Rita and Marie Wright, Rob R. Kling, and Hoskins (a wealthy man, his daughters, his lawyer, and his butler; no further appearances)
• Byron Grant (Rita's boyfriend; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Congressman Brown (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Professor Karma (an astral authority; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Diana Prince witnesses the murder of Congressman Brown by Ernest Wright. Wright disappears after the murder, but police locate him in his bed, claiming that he was asleep the whole time. Wright's daughter Rita announces that she is going to hire a detective to prove her father's innocence. Soon afterward Wonder Woman witnesses Rita gun down her boyfriend Byron Grant. When Rita is found, her alibi is the same as her father's, she was sleeping.

Puzzled by the events, Wonder Woman visits an expert on astral projection. Professor Karma falls into a deep sleep before he can identify his student that would be capable of astral murder.

Wonder Woman then uses an astroscope to see Rita's sister Marie be abducted by astral forms. She follows in spirit form and is joined by the sleeping Holliday Girls. Then follow Marie to a castle where she is being trained to murder Wonder Woman. The girls smash the castle and rescue Marie, learning the identity of the astral killer in the process.

When Marie returns to her body she tries to shoot Wonder Woman's sleeping physical body. Steve Trevor rushes in to fowl the girl's aim. Wonder Woman awakens and visits Vina Kling, the wife of Wright's lawyer. Vina confesses to being responsible for the murders, directing the sleeping astral forms to kill.