Comic Title: Wonder Woman #28
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1948
Approx. On Sale Date: January 28, 1948 Copyright Date January 26, 1948
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
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: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: "Villainy Incorporated"
Pages: 36

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

Writer: William Moulton Marston
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #416 (1972)
Wonder Woman 80-Page Giant #1 (2003)
Wonder Woman:The Greatest Stories Ever Told TPB (2007)
Wonder Woman:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2016)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 4 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Sensation Comics #75; next appearance in Sensation Comics #76)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in Sensation Comics #75; next appearance in Comic Cavalcade #26)
• Etta Candy (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #76)
• Holliday Girls (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #77)
• Hippolyte (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #76)
• Amazons (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #76)
• Mala (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #25; next appearance in Sensation Comics #76)

Villain(s)

• Villainy Incorporated (no further appearances)
• Eviless and the Saturnians (no further appearances)
• Cheetah (last appearance in DC Special #3; next appearance in Crisis on Infinite Earths #5)
• Giganta (last appearance in Wonder Woman #9; no further appearances)
• Queen Clea (last appearance in Wonder Woman #8; next appearance in Justice League of America #135)
• Byrna Brilyant (last appearance in Sensation Comics #59; no further appearances)
• Hypnota (last appearance in Wonder Woman #11; no further appearances)
• Zara (last appearance in Comic Cavalcade #5; no further appearances)
• Dr. Poison (last appearance in Sensation Comics #24; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Irene and several reformed prisoners of Transformation Island (no further appearances)
• Clarice Mystik (a cult member; no further appearances)
• Professor Zool (a scientist at Holliday College; last appearance in Wonder Woman #9; no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "Trap of Crimson Flame"
Part 3: "In the Hands of the Merciless"

Synopsis:
Wonder Woman brings a group of captured Saturnian women to Transformation Island for reformation. Eviless, the leader of the girls, manages to escape and steal Wonder Woman's lasso. She sets the other prisoners loose and enslaves the Amazons using Venus girdles which force them into submission. The women prisoners, most former foes of Wonder Woman, unite as Villainy, Incorporated.

After they finish capturing the rest of the Amazons including Queen Hippolyte, the villains summon Wonder Woman. Though Wonder Woman fights back, the women force her into surrender. Eviless plans to kill Wonder Woman and Hippolyte, but several of the reformed prisoners stage a riot. Wonder Woman is released and most of the villains are rounded up.

Clea, Giganta, Zara, and Hypnota have fled to the Man's World with Hippolyte's priceless jewels. Wonder Woman can't find them, so she keeps tabs on pawn shops, hoping to find the jewels. A shopkeeper reports a girl trying to sell him one of the jewels, so Wonder Woman follows her to the lair of the escaped criminals.

Though Wonder Woman is captured when she arrives, Etta Candy, the Holliday Girls, and Steve Trevor all help her escape. She then overcomes the four villains and returns them to Transformation Island as prisoners.