Comic Title: Wonder Woman #40
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1950
Approx. On Sale Date: January 25, 1950 Copyright Date January 23, 1950
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1950
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: Robert Kanigher

Title: "Passengers of Fate"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #40; next appearance in All-Star Comics #52)

Villain(s)

• A group of unnamed gangsters (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• MacDonald (a ferryboat captain; no further appearances)
• Joe Devlin (a lighthouse keeper; no further appearances)
• John Lane (a brain surgeon; no further appearances)
• Serge Cleff (a composer; no further appearances)
• Van Deste (a music director; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Diana Prince regularly takes a ferryboat across the bay. She befriends MacDonald, the captain of the boat who is bored with his job and wants to quit. Diana returns to the boat as Wonder Woman. She shows MacDonald that his job is important. He helps brain surgeon John Lane get to the hospital to save patients. The ferry has even inspired down-on-his-luck composer Serge Cleff to write new music.

MacDonald plays a long-distance game of checkers with a nearby lighthouse keeper Joe Devlin. When Devlin makes a strange move, Wonder Woman suspects trouble. Gangsters have taken over the lighthouse with the intention of causing a ship to crash. The Amazon rescues Joe from the gangsters and foils their plot.

Wonder Woman's advice has helped MacDonald to take a fresh perspective of his job which he no longer considers unimportant.