Comic Title: Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: September 6, 2007 Direct Market Date September 6, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, September 6, 2007

Direct Market Date September 26, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #5 (#221)

Direct Market Date September 26, 2007
Source: Comic Shop News, #1053

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 240

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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

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

Writer: Joyce Murchison
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Reprinted From:
Wonder Woman #12 (1945)

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.