VOLUME 5 1960 - 1967
COMICS INDEX
VOLUME 5 1960 - 1967
COMICS INDEX LEONIDAS FRAGIAS
The Arts & Charts Index to Wonder Woman The format and design of this book is based on George Olshevsky's Marvel Index series and Murray Ward's DC Index series. Their books have a beautiful layout which was an inspiration for me. The Official Marvel Index is a series of comic books released by Marvel Comics which featured synopses of several Marvel series. The books were largely compiled by George Olshevsky and featured detailed information on each issue in a particular series, including writer and artist credits, characters who appeared in the issue, and a story synopsis. The Official Marvel Index was preceded by the Marvel Comics Index (also compiled by Olshevsky) and distributed by Pacific Comics Distributors sporadically from 1976-1982. These books were magazinesized as opposed to comic-sized. The first Official Marvel Index titles were published in 1985, and produced regularly through August 1988. A similar series of indices was published for DC Comics. The Official DC Index was released by Independent Comics Group (an imprint of Eclipse Comics) from 1985–1988. The books were edited by Murray Ward. The data for this book is taken from various sources. I fill the gap of the missing data, since I have the complete collection of DC and Marvel comics from the 1930s to the present. Also I made some corrections, when the data is wrong. The book series cover the golden age (pre-1956), the silver age (from the mid-1950s to 1969) and the bronze age (from 1970 to 1986) of DC Comics. This is my favorite era, when it comes to comics. Many thanks to DarkMark, George Olshevsky, Murray Ward, Mark Waid and Mike Tiefenbacher among others. Leonidas Fragias
THE WONDER WOMAN COMICS INDEX Volume 5, 2018. Published by Arts & Charts. Editor: Leonidas Fragias, Writers: Various. Wonder Woman is trademark of DC Comics Inc. All art and cover reproductions Š2018 DC Comics Inc.
Wonder Woman #115
Wonder Woman #116
July 1960 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Graveyard of Monster Ships” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Angle Man attacks Wonder Woman with a robot computer that can bring inanimate objects to life.
August 1960 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Cave of Giant Creatures” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mer-Boy’s attempts to gain Wonder Girl’s favor by arousing her sympathy all botch, so he risks his life to bring her back a treasure from a sea spider’s lair.
Story: “Mer-Boy’s Undersea Party” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman is irked with Mer-Boy when he causes her to fail an Amazon test by having to rescue him from danger. He retaliates by displaying messages (including one spelled out by flying fish) accusing her of refusing to go with him to a mermen’s dance.
Story: “The Time Traveller of Terror” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor learn that Prof. Andro, a dignitary present for the launching of a new rocket, has also been present for almost every disaster since the sinking of Atlantis.
Wonder Woman #117
Wonder Woman #118
October 1960 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Fantastic Fishermen of the Forbidden Sea” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman tells the Holliday Girls the story of how she and several Amazons were captured by the Fantastic Fishermen of the Forbidden Sea. Then all get kidnapped by a flying saucer.
November 1960 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Woman’s Impossible Decision” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Steve Trevor, after getting another rejection from Wonder Woman to his marriage proposal, believes he must have a rival. To check his suspicion, he tracks her Amazon Plane in secret and beholds a meeting of the Amazon and Merman, the former Mer-Boy, her boyfriend in years past. Wonder Woman scoffs at Steve’s jealousy, telling him Merman is not his rival. But when Steve is endangered by an octopus underwater, Merman comes to his rescue. He makes friends with the amphibian and learns of his teenage crush on Wonder Girl. Later, Steve rescues Merman from a giant bird, evening the score. The giant bird returns and sweeps both Merman and Steve off the cliff on which they had been standing. Wonder Woman captures the bird, but is faced with the decision of which man to save, with both of them hanging on to a ledge by their fingertips. Steve gallantly lets go, telling her to save Merman. But Wonder Woman manages to save both Steve and Merman, and will not reveal which one she would have chosen to save if she had had to sacrifice one of them.
Story: “Wonder Girl Meets Wonder Woman” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Girl, desiring to meet and work with her future Wonder Woman self, gets the Amazons to send her to the future with a time machine.
Wonder Woman #119
Wonder Woman #120
January 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Mer-Boy’s Secret Prize” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mer-Boy, trying to win the heart of Wonder Girl, participates in an Atlantean contest to win a pearl tiara by catching the most unusual fish. Instead, she has to save him when he accidentally catches a giant bird. Later, she has to intervene again when he catches a giant sea monster. Another Atlantean wins the pearl tiara for his girl. But when Mer-Boy retrieves his rod and reel from a shark which he has hooked, he finds a pearl tiara on the end of the hook, which the shark had swallowed. MerBoy is thus able to give Wonder Girl the tiara, which she calls “the most beautiful girft I ever received in my life”.
February 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Secret of Volcano Mountain” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Girl defeats an icy menace from Mercury, saving MerBoy and his Atlantean people. But the being returns to his homeworld and later returns as a creature of flame to attack Wonder Woman.
Story: “Three Wishes of Doom” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Inez Grey, a star athlete at Holliday College, beats Etta Candy and her three friends in bouts of swimming, jumping, tennis, and fencing. When Wonder Woman comes to console the Holliday Girls, Inez tells her that she could do anything Wonder Woman can do if she only had the use of her bracelets, tiara, and lasso. Wonder Woman refuses to lend her equipment to the girl. But an electronic tabulator machine used to decide which person should have three wishes granted by Wonder Woman chooses Inez Grey. Inez naturally asks to borrow Wonder Woman’s bracelets, lasso, and tiara, but says she will return them as soon as she fails while using them. Since she does not have Amazon training, Inez fails in each attempt to use the equipment, and Wonder Woman has to save her. Finally, Inez apologizes for her rash statements, and says that “You are a Wonder Woman with or without your Amazon equipment!”
Wonder Woman #121
Wonder Woman #122
April 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Island Eater” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Inker; Mike Esposito Synopsis: Wonder Girl watches herself as Wonder Woman on a futureviewing device and despairs of being able to match her older self’s strength and skills, but later saves herself and Mer-Boy from a time-warp trap. At that time, Queen Hippolyte leads an Amazon fleet against invaders from Pluto, and Wonder Woman watches her mother’s victory on a viewscreen tuned to the past.
May 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Skyscraper Wonder Woman” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Sinister Seer of Saturn comes to Earth and captures Wonder Woman, intent on revenge. He plans to get it by making her run a gauntlet of three tests, competing with a titanic Wonder Woman robot of his own creation.
Wonder Woman #123 July 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Amazon Magic-Eye Album” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman and Queen Hippolyte go through Wonder Woman’s photo album, reliving adventures of Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl, and having a new adventure in which the Amazon Princess enters a world within a photograph.
Wonder Woman #124 August 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Impossible Day” (27 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Steve Trevor and Diana Prince come upon an “impossible” cave-painting in which Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot and Queen Hippolyta were shown together fighting a dinosaur, Wonder Woman returns to Paradise Island. There she and Queen Hippolyta, inspired by the painting, splice together reels of film and create a fictional movie in which they team up with Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl to fight Multiple Man, a chameleon-like menace.
Wonder Woman #125 October 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Woman--Battle Prize” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Steve Trevor and Merman begin a competition for Wonder Woman’s hand, only to find themselves scooped by a knight in shining armor from a flying saucer.
Wonder Woman #126 November 1961 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Tot and Mr. Genie” (14 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When Queen Hippolyte sees Wonder Tot balancing a golden apple on her head and wearing a diamond star-shaped clip for her ponytail, she asks her child how she got the objects. Wonder Tot explains that when a strong wind blew her out of bed, she rode the air currents to an island where she overcame a guardian dragon and took one of the golden apples that grew there on a tree. Later, she found a chest on the island’s beach, opened it, and liberated a genie who had been imprisoned there. The genie, who had grown embittered over his long imprisonment, threw Wonder Tot inside his chest and sat on it to keep her inside. But Wonder Tot used ventriloquism to make it seem that she had escaped, and the genie, whom she calls “Mr. Genie”, got up from the chest to find her, enabling her to crawl out. She then reimprisoned him in the chest, until he swore to grant her one wish, upon which she let him free again. Overjoyed, Mr. Genie kicked the chest into the sea and asked Wonder Tot what her wish was. She wished for a star to be made into a clip for her ponytail. After an adventure in space in which the two new friends destroyed an alien invader craft and smashed through a meteor shower, Mr. Genie recovered a diamond within one of the smashed meteors and gave it to Wonder Tot for a hair clip. Then the two parted, with Mr. Genie assuring her he would do his best to fulfill any further wishes she might have. Story: “The Unmasking of Wonder Woman” (11 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Come what may, Wonder Woman cannot get Steve Trevor interested in Diana Prince on a date, even when she switches to Diana and defeats a saucerful of subterranean invaders.
Wonder Woman #127
Wonder Woman #128
January 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Invaders of the Topsy-Turvy Planet” (11 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman comes to Holliday College for the Krazy Kapers Day, not knowing a spaceship from the topsy-turvy world, Planet K, are also coming there to capture Earthlings.
February 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Origin of the Amazing Robot Plane” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Queen Hippolyte plays Wonder Woman recordings of Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl asking how she won the Amazon Plane. In response, Wonder Woman tells them a story of how she found Pegasus and used him in a battle with a pterodactyl, until the winged horse was transformed by a strange cloud into the Robot Plane.
Story: “Wonder Woman’s Surprise Honeymoon” (14 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Steve Trevor gets knocked unconscious while he and Wonder Woman tackle crooks and has a dream in which he finds out married life with the Amazon might not be a bed of roses.
Story: “Vengeance of the Angle Man” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Angle Man tricks Wonder Woman into sinking her feet into super-hard, quick-drying cement, but she manages to perform her duties while stuck in a concrete block.
Wonder Woman #129 April 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Return of Multiple Man” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman and Queen Hippolyta splice together the second “Impossible Tale”, featuring themselves teamed with Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl against Multiple Man again.
Wonder Woman #130 May 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Secret of Mr. Genie’s Magic Turban” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mr. Genie takes Wonder Tot on another series of adventures, during which they foil an alien invasion attempt. Story: “The Mirage Mirrors” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Diana Prince finds that Steve Trevor is too dumb-struck with love for Wonder Woman to consider taking her out, she asks Queen Hippolyte for advice. She tells her daughter how, when Hercules was smitten with her, and did nothing but brag to her of Hippolyte’s beauty while the Queen assumed a secret identity as an Amazon soldier, she fooled him with a “mirage-mirror” that gave her two heads, allowing her to assume any shape she wished temporarily. Later, when he asked the normal Queen Hippolyte for a date, Hercules was chagrined to find her going off with Apollo.
Wonder Woman #131
Wonder Woman #132
July 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Proving of Wonder Woman” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Diana Prince explains to a delegation of Wonder Woman Fan Clubs the origins of the Amazon Princess’s expressions, “Thunderbolts of Jove”, “Suffering Sappho,” and so forth.
August 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Tot and the Flying Saucer” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman is regressed by Amazon science to babyhood so that she can interpret a baby’s eyewitness report of a flying saucer abduction, and battles the aliens as Wonder Tot.
Story: “Wonder Queen’s Surprise Birthday Gift” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman, with some help from Manno the Merman, seeks to find a suitably rare birthday gift for Queen Hippolyta.
Story: “Wonder Queen Fights Hercules” Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Wonder Woman confesses the problem she has with her rival suitors, Steve Trevor and Manno the Merman, Queen Hippolyta tells her about the time in the distant past in which Hercules tried to win her hand.
Wonder Woman #133 October 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Amazing Amazon Race” (15 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman selects Alice, a fan of hers, to come to Paradise Island and watch the Wonder Queen For a Day competition, in which the Amazon competes with Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl. Story: “Wonder Woman’s Invincible Rival--Herself” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman is hired to take on the secret identity of “Miss X” and play opposite Steve Trevor in a movie, and discovers Steve falling in love with her new identity.
Wonder Woman #134 November 1962 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Menace of the Mirror-Wonder Woman” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman fights the Image-Maker, a villain who exists within a world of mirrors. Story: “The Capture of Mer-Boy” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Girl finds that Mer-Boy has fallen for a beautiful blonde skin-diver who captured him at sea.
Wonder Woman #135
Wonder Woman #136
January 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Attack of the Human Iceberg” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman fan Carol Sue wins a trip to Paradise Island in a contest, but gets more excitement than she bargained for: Multiple Man, the Amazons’ nemesis, chooses that time to return and attack the island. Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, and Queen Hippolyte battle and finally defeat the metamophosizing menace, though they are not certain at the end whether he is destroyed, or merely abated.
February 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Woman--World’s Mightiest Menace” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: In order to get Wonder Woman out of the way of their planned invasion, a group of alien “Machine-Men” transform her into a giant, with little control of her powers, or hunger and thirst.
Wonder Woman #137 April 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Robot Wonder Woman” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor find themselves, within the Robot Plane, drawn through space magnetically to a parallel Earth populated by robots. A robot Wonder Woman has seen Steve from afar and brought him to the robotic Paradise Island to be her lover, but she has no use for the human Wonder Woman. Steve, who has been hypnotized by the robots, rejects Wonder Woman in favor of her robot double. But the human heroine refuses to give him up, so the robot Queen Hippolyte proposes a series of tests, with the winner gaining Steve Trevor and the loser facing doom.
Wonder Woman #138 May 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Kite of Doom” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Wonder Family competes among itself for the right to a priceless kite, in an adventure that reunites them against Multiple Man.
Wonder Woman #139
Wonder Woman #140
July 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Day Wonder Woman Revealed Her Secret Identity” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When Steve Trevor is frustrated by Wonder Woman’s refusal to marry him until all crime and injustice is erased from the Earth, he wishes aloud that she would forget who she is. Shortly thereafter, she destroys two enemy missles by hurling them against each other, and is caught in the explosion, knocked unconscious, and given amnesia when she awakens. Upon reviving, she flatly tells Steve that she is Diana Prince, and that Wonder Woman has lent her her costume for a masquerade ball she and Steve will be attending, but that she is not Wonder Woman. Steve makes numerous attempts to jog back her memory, including putting himself in danger, but nothing works. Finally, when robot animals at the ball snatch American military figures in a kidnap attempt, Wonder Woman is struck a glancing blow and recovers her memory. She rescues the kidnapees and convinces Steve by a ruse that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman are not the same person.
August 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Human Lightning” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Morpheus appears to Diana Prince and agrees to grant the wishes of three people of her choosing--Mr. Genie, Mer-Boy, and the Duke of Deception--the last of which causes Wonder Woman to become an outof-control, lightning-radiating menace.
Wonder Woman #141 October 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Academy of Arch-Villains” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The underworld offers a golden statuette, the Golden WW, in the shape of Wonder Woman to the one villain who can defeat and trap Wonder Woman, and leaks the offer to the press. The first to try is Angle Man, who fakes his reformation in order to lure Wonder Woman into a deathtrap, but she manages to escape and recapture him. The second is the Human Fireworks, a criminal scientist who transforms himself into a giant fireworks being and who gives her a tough battle before being blasted to bits by a meteor. But Wonder Woman has become blinded in the encounter, and Mouse-Man, a tiny-sized villain is able to induce her to come with him as a prisoner to the Arch-Villains’ convention. Once there, she does a Samson-like wrecking of two support pillars, bringing down the convention hall and herding the escaping crooks into the hands of the police. Wonder Woman, who had recovered from her blindness earlier and pulled the ruse to trap the crooks, catches Mouse-Man and turns him over to the police. The tiny villain is jailed in a bird cage.
Wonder Woman #142 November 1963 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Captives of the Mirage World” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Wonder Family goes on a quest for a rare butterfly, only to find themselves the prey of a giant Wonder Family from another world.
Wonder Woman #143
Wonder Woman #144
January 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Terror Trees of Forbidden Island” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When alien invaders attack Paradise Island, the Amazons at first repel them with the dazzling power of the Sun Sword, which has incredible power for one year. But the weapon peters out in the attack, the year’s charge being used up. Queen Hippolyte sends Wonder Woman to Forbidden Island, to wrest another Sun Sword from within one of the Trees of Vengeance. At first, Wonder Woman is surrounded by tree-wood herself when she grasps the handle of another Sun Sword stuck in one of the Vengeance Trees. But half of the alien invasion force has trailed her and inadvertently frees her from her wooden prison by attacking her with rays. Liberated, Wonder Woman defeats the aliens with the new Sun Sword, and, when she gets home, learns that Queen Hippolyte and the Amazons have been able to overcome the rest of the aliens’ depleted forces.
February 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Revolt of Wonder Woman” (15 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman, exhausted by the many demands upon her and disheartened by people’s perception of her as a “fighting machine”, succumbs to despair, wishing she could find someone who appreciates her for herself.
Story: “The Amazon Mouse Trap” (15 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mouse-Man escapes from prison and takes Wonder Woman captive with her own lasso.
Story: “Merboy Vs. Bird-Boy” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy compete for the hand of Wonder Girl by defeating threats to Paradise Island.
Wonder Woman #145
Wonder Woman #146
April 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Phantom Sea Beast” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Tot, Wonder Girl, and Queen Hippolyte all have dreams in which they encounter a monstrous, pink-shelled “Phantom Sea-Beast”. However, Wonder Woman had no such dream, and, when the Phantom Sea Beast appears for real and menaces her family, she is able to destroy it. But the Wonder Family is drawn through time and caged by future zookeepers who were trying to get the Sea-Beast for their zoo, and now insist that the Wonder Family take its place in their cage. Wonder Woman strikes a bargain with their captors: if they send her back to the time of the dinosaurs, she will capture one for them and they can let her family go. She manages to grab a pterodactyl egg, which hatches when she and it are pulled into the future. Satisfied, the zookeepers return the Wonder Family to their normal era.
May 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “War of the Underwater Giants” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: To earn $50,000 for an orphanage, Wonder Woman must make up stories within five minutes of being shown three pictures of herself performing super-feats.
Wonder Woman #147
Wonder Woman #148
July 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Bird-Girl--Fish-Girl” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mer-Boy hitches an airborne ride with Bird-Boy, both of whom keep from touching Paradise Island as they watch Wonder Girl pass a battery of tests implemented by the “goddess” Athena. As a reward, Athena dubs Wonder Girl a true Amazon, and tells her she will grant the first request made of her. Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy make their requests simultaneously, wishing that Wonder Girl be turned into a mermaid or a bird-girl so that she can spend all her time with one of them. Wonder Girl cannot decide which she will choose, so Athena chooses for her, giving her wings and bird-like legs to go first with Bird-Boy. Wonder Girl meets BirdBoy’s parents and friends, but finds she has no taste for worm pie or birdseed pizza. She fights off a flying Sphinx, but tells Athena she was not meant to be a bird-girl. Next, she is transformed into a mermaid, and accompanies Mer-Boy, only to find that she is “a fish out of water”, despite defeating a giant centipede. Athena restores Wonder Girl to normalcy, and both Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy hope they still have a chance at Wonder Girl’s heart.
August 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Olympics of the Doomed” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Duke of Deception makes Wonder Woman unable to distinguish reality from illusion by creating realistic illusions that deceive her. Finally, he tricks her into a trap that brings her back to Mars, where she is imprisoned in a cage which, he says, will not free her unless he takes her place, and made to participate in the Olympics of the Doomed before the Martian people. Despite being in a cage, Wonder Woman triumphs, and finds that she can transmit her own illusions. Thus she makes the Duke believe she has escaped the cage, whereupon he opens it to check, frees her, and imprisons himself. Wonder Woman returns to Earth in a borrowed space ship.
Wonder Woman #149 October 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Last Days of the Amazons” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Queen Hippolyta, made lonely for the prince she once loved, calls on Athena to help her fashion a statue in his image. But the image is brought to life by Athena, and the presence of a man on Paradise Island-and Aphrodite’s jealousy in that Hippolyta called on Athena, not herself, the goddess of love--threatens to doom the island and everyone on it.
Wonder Woman #150 November 1964 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Phantom Fisher-Bird” Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy vie to see who's best, which requires Wonder Girl to keep rescuing them. Eventually Wonder Woman has to rescue all three of them from the King Fisherbird.
Wonder Woman #151
Wonder Woman #152
January 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Girl Vs. The Teenage Monster” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After looking through a photo album of Wonder Woman with pictures of her boyfriends Manno the Merman, Wingo the Birdman, and Steve Trevor, Wonder Girl falls asleep and dreams that she and a teenaged Steve Trevor have a battle against a blob-like alien called The Glop, who talks in rhymes after hearing a rock ‘n’ roll song on a radio station.
February 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Girl’s Decision of Doom” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Athena pronounces Judgment Day on Paradise Island, in which all but one of the Wonder Woman family will have their powers erased for a day, and the single member excepted will be expected to battle all threats, with their island and Amazon powers forfeit if she fails. Wonder Girl is the only family member to retain her powers. The other Amazons leave Paradise Island, and Wonder Girl alone must battle a giant serpent, a Medusa-Bird, a dinosaur, and the Duke of Deception. But she wins every battle, and Athena grants their island and powers once again. Story: “Wonder Girl’s Mysterious Father” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Girl and Queen Hippolyte become depressed while watching a newsreel from Man’s World showing a “Dad and Daughter Day” celebration; both of them miss the same individual, the man who fathered Wonder Girl, whom Hippolyte says was lost at sea. Later, Wonder Girl rescues a shipwrecked man whose memory was affected by a lightning blast and who thinks Wonder Girl is really his daughter, Annie. Wonder Girl builds an island for both of them to live on temporarily, since the man cannot be allowed to set foot on Paradise Island. Both the man and his lost daughter are acrobats, and Wonder Girl helps him perform acrobatic stunts, with Bird-Boy and Mer-Boy lending a hand. The two put on an acrobatic act for the Amazons, and Wonder Girl enjoys the presence of a surrogate “father”. But, soon afterward, she finds Annie, who has also been lost at sea, and reunites her with her father. The man’s memory returns at the sight of his true daughter, and Wonder Girl takes both of them to a passing ship, which will take them back to America.
Wonder Woman #153 April 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Girl’s Stolen Face” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Duke of Deception teleports a face onto Wonder Girl, halfnormal, half-green and ugly, in an attempt to madden her and get her to destroy her family and thus pave the way for a Martian invasion fleet. Wonder Girl is maddened, but, after she destroys a temple on Paradise Island, she realizes her family is not fighting back, and that they still love her. Thus, she leaves the Island in self-banishment, finding the Duke’s flying saucer in the clouds above, with her old face visible within it. The Duke traps her and intends to use her as bait for the Wonder Woman family, but Wonder Girl breaks loose and signals her relatives. The Wonder Family destroys the Martian saucer fleet, recovers Wonder Girl’s stolen face, and has it regrafted to Wonder Girl’s head by surgery.
Wonder Woman #154 May 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Battle of the Boiling Man” (25 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman is summoned to Paradise Island for Name Day, in which she must prove for another year that she is worthy to bear the name Wonder Woman. Steve Trevor threatens to land on Paradise Island, which would violate Aphrodite’s Law, but promises not to set foot on the island if Wonder Woman will promise not to become engaged to Mer-Man or Bird-Man during Name Day, which promise she gives him. On the way, she encounters Mer-Man and Bird-Man while battling a giant sphinx. Then Athena and Aphrodite oversee the Name Day trials, which include a glass pole climb (won by Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Tot), after which the “goddesses” give the three Wonder Family members a series of tests, and say that if they all succeed, the three of them must decide which is worthy of the name “Wonder Woman”. Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl perform their tasks easily. When Wonder Woman’s time comes, she is astonished to see Steve Trevor knocked out of the sky, and Boiling Man, a volcanically-erupting creature, emerging from beneath Paradise Island at the same time. She saves Steve by blowing him skyward, then entombs Boiling Man in an iceberg which she throws into space. Athena reveals that Wonder Woman has fulfilled her task, and Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl vote Wonder Woman the Name Day winner. Wonder Woman takes Steve back to Man’s World in her Robot Plane.
Wonder Woman #155
Wonder Woman #156
July 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “I Married a Monster” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After being pestered for marriage by Steve Trevor, Manno, and Wingo the Birdman, Wonder Woman meets a prince from an island in the sky who was given a horrific visage by magic, and agrees to marry him.
August 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Brain Pirate of the Inner World” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman reads a comic book story which portrays one of her old adventures, in which she battled the Brain Pirate.
Wonder Woman #157
Wonder Woman #158
October 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “I--the Bomb” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Steve Trevor is sent on a dangerous reconnaisance mission to take pictures of a possible enemy development on the island of Oolong, held by the Red Chinese. Eleven men have already been lost trying to accomplish that mission, and Diana Prince fears that Steve could be the twelfth. She becomes Wonder Woman and attempts to help him, but is forced to divert her attention to save the American fleet in the Pacific from robot planes and a sub. Steve Trevor parachutes out over Oolong, taking pictures, and discovers that the master of Oolong Island is Egg Fu, a gigantic egg-shaped creature created by the Red Chinese. Egg Fu irradiates Trevor with rays that turn him into a human atomic bomb, and sends both Trevor and a conventional nuclear missle at the American fleet. Steve is able to shout the facts of his becoming a human bomb to Wonder Woman. She diverts him into the path of the missle, and both she, Trevor, and the bomb are blown to atoms. The American fleet is saved. Queen Hippolyta has Amazon planes fly over the area, magnetizing the scattered atoms of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Then both she and Steve are atomically reassembled by the Amazons’ experimental AS-2 beam. But Wonder Woman and Steve find out that both of them are still irradiated, and that they cause explosions whenever they touch.
November 1965 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Fury of Egg Fu” (16 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman takes herself and Steve Trevor off Paradise Island (Steve, having been on a table, has not touched ground and is thus not in violation of Aphrodite’s Law). They opt to return to Oolong and battle Egg Fu. On the way, they see a tiny meteor of anti-matter destroy a large meteor of positive matter, and deduce that touching anti-matter might rid them of their explosive power. On Oolong, they fight off Red Chinese troops and tanks, but Egg Fu snatches them and uses their power against each other, rendering them both unconscious and then tossing them away. But as they arc skyward, they contact another piece of antimatter and their explosive power is neutralized. Wonder Woman encircles Egg Fu with her magic lasso. The villain strains against the lasso’s loop and shatters himself, ending his threat forever. Relieved, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor speed off in the Robot Plane. Story: “The End--Or the Beginning” (8 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Editor-writer Robert Kanigher summons the entire Wonder Woman cast to his office and tells them that they are all being retired in favor of a “new look” for Wonder Woman, a retro-Golden Age format. As such, only Queen Hippolyte and Steve Trevor remain of the supporting cast, andKanigher makes a proclamation to an audience of comic fans-backed up by Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyte, and Steve Trevor--that “We’re going to recreate the Golden Age--thrilling step by step!”
Wonder Woman #159
Wonder Woman #160
January 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman” (16 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: In ancient times, Mars, the god of war, and Aphrodite, goddess of love, fought over who would rule humanity. To counter Mars' violence on Earth, Aphrodite created the race of Amazons, giving them "the power of love" and making them stronger than the mightiest man. Hippolyta gives Diana the red, white, blue and yellow costume designed by Aphrodite, and the Magic Lasso, made from links of the magic girdle of Aphrodite, which compels anyone bound with it to obey the orders of the binder. Diana is dubbed "Wonder Woman" by her fellow Amazons, and takes the transparent Robot Plane given her by Hippolyte to take herself and Steve Trevor back to America.
February 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Amazon of Terror” (14 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor stop the Cheetah and her gang from robbing a zoo of its priceless extinct animal exhibit for a client. But the Cheetah escapes, and later hypnotizes Trevor into smooching with her! When Wonder Woman sees them, as the Cheetah had planned, she is tear-stricken and upset, allowing the villainess to take her by surprise, steal her magic lasso, and encircle her with it. Wonder Woman, enslaved by the Cheetah, is forced to take her and Steve to the Cheetah's private island. Story: “Dr. Psycho’s Revenge” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mars steals Wonder Woman’s Herculean strength and Mercurian speed temporarily and gives them to the woman-hating Dr. Psycho, who has been rejected by all women as a suitor because of his ugliness. Wonder Woman loses her power to Dr. Psycho while performing at a charity carnival, thus enabling Psycho to show her up in a contest of strength and speed. But the crowd rejects Dr. Psycho because of his appearance, leaving the little man alone and sorrowful. When Wonder Woman comes to comfort him, he steals her lasso and encircles her with it, forcing her to perform humiliating actions. Still, she pities Psycho, and says that she wants to be his friend. Disbelieving her, he loosens her from the lasso. She still offers him friendship, even kissing him at her request. Psycho is almost convinced of her sincerity, until Steve Trevor appears and she goes to him to explain. Angered, Psycho lifts the center pole of the tent, but finds his strength fading. Wonder Woman, reimpowered, grabs the pole and rights it as Psycho escapes.
Story: “Doom Island” (8 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: On the way back to America, the Robot Plane carrying Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor is knocked down over the same island which caused Trevor’s plane to crack up. The island is inhabited by a gang of spies, who use a hidden anti-aircraft gun to wreck allied planes. Wonder Woman’s bracelets are chained together, but she tricks the spies into using the blast of their gun to shatter the chains, after which she easily defeats the spies and takes them back to America with herself and Trevor.
Wonder Woman #161
Wonder Woman #162
April 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Curse of Cleopatra” (14 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When Countess Draska Nishki comes to Lt. Diana Prince's office and offers her services as a spy for hire, Diana rebuffs her, and is tossed around the room by the judo-trained spy. Later, Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor witness a "war" between two rival movie studios, each turning out a Cleopatra epic--Magnum Magnus of Magnus Pictures contacts them and asks them to play the parts of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, because the original actor and actress have fallen into comas!
May 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Startling Secret of Diana Prince” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Wonder Woman takes the injured Steve Trevor to a military hospital in Washington, D.C., she sets up a hiding place for her Robot Plane, then goes into town and catches a mob of bank robbers. Then, still looking for a way she can easily be close to Steve, Wonder Woman comes upon a nurse weeping in the park. The nurse, Diana Prince, tells Wonder Woman that she and her fiancé are madly in love, but she has no money to relocate to South America.
Story: “Battle Inside of a Brain” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman is asked by Gen. Darnell to make sure Steve Trevor gets to the Pentagon safely with info on a new rocket plane he has tested. On the way, they are stopped and overcome by the Angle Man and his gang. Wonder Woman is encircled by her lasso and held helpless by one of the gangsters while truth serum is administered to Steve, but he resists spilling his secrets. Thus, Angle Man and his men use a shrinking device to reduce them to microscopic size, at which time they enter Steve’s brain and attempt to get the information directly. Wonder Woman knocks out her guard and uses the shrinking ray to reduce herself as well, entering Steve’s body and defeating Angle Man and his gang before they can learn the classified secrets, and bringing herself and the crooks safely out of Steve’s corpus.
Story: “The Return of Minister Blizzard” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When nurse Diana Prince can’t get Steve Trevor to stop talking about Wonder Woman, she assumes her other identity and is just about to collect a kiss as the park they stand in becomes covered with ice. The cold snap is the doing of Minister Blizzard, a pale-skinned villain with a ray-gun capable of producing cold, heat, magnetism, electricity, and other forces. Wonder Woman is defeated by him in battle and captured, along with Steve, who is frozen solid. Blizzard tells Wonder Woman that his actions are caused by his desire to give Princess Snoweena a gift of Manhattan Island on ice. While Blizzard is speaking, however, Wonder Woman realizes his ray has only made her imagine herself being bound, and manages to free herself. She breaks herself and Steve out of Blizzard’s spacecraft, and, by playing bullets-and-bracelets with the projectiles that Blizzard’s fleet fires, blasts them all out of the sky. Manhattan is rendered ice-free again, and Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor return to it.
Wonder Woman #163
Wonder Woman #164
July 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Giganta, the Gorilla Girl” (9 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When Dr. Psycho notices Diana Prince and Steve Trevor near the cage of Giganta, a female gorilla, he decides to hurt Wonder Woman by hypnotizing Giganta into falling in love with Steve Trevor. The gorilla grabs Steve and, when Diana changes into Wonder Woman, overpowers the heroine, but falls victim to the Magic Lasso. Professor Zool appears on the scene, asking that the gorilla be turned over to him for evolutionary experimentation, and Psycho decides to capitalize on it.
August 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Woman--Traitor” (24 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Shortly after Wonder Woman finds out that Gen. Darnell is secretly in love with him, she learns that Steve Trevor has, in Darnell’s words, “recklessly went out to test a new super rocket plane which killed a test pilot who took his place while he was recovering!” Steve also fails to return, and Wonder Woman’s searching can reveal no trace of either him or his plane. Wonder Woman grieves, but Darnell consoles her, and she finally accepts a proposal of marriage from the general. However, she is unable to say the words “I do” at the ceremony, still thinking of Steve, and Darnell releases her from her engagement. The Amazon princess rescues another pilot testing the rocket plane, and takes his place, finding the craft captured by rays fired from a submarine. She battles frogmen from the sub, but finally is overcome, and finds herself encircled by her own Magic Lasso, held by her enemy, Angle Man. The villain forces her to retrieve the weapons that the U.S. uses against him, for resale to criminals. Steve Trevor, a prisoner of Angle Man, misunderstands the lasso’s power over her and calls Wonder Woman a traitor. Finally, Trevor is so angered that he knocks down Angle Man, causing the villain to lose his grip on the lasso. Angle Man jettisons Wonder Woman and Trevor from the ship and sends a torpedo at them, but Wonder Woman deflects it back into the sub, sinking it. Wonder Woman gets herself and Steve to the surface, explains that the Magic Lasso compelled her to obey Angle Man, and kisses him.
Story: “Danger--Wonder Woman” (15 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: While pulling a jewel robbery with her gang, female criminal Paula Von Gunta sees Wonder Woman walking by with Steve, unaware of the crime being pulled off, and becomes infatuated with Major Trevor. Accordingly, Paula undergoes a crash beauty treatment and has her gang make attempts to destroy Wonder Woman, all of which fail. Finally, the villainess steals Wonder Woman’s lasso and encircles her with it, placing the heroine under her control. Through hypnotic control, Paula makes Wonder Woman remove her bracelets, thus turning her into a berserker, and has her wreck a train Steve is riding on. However, the train’s engine is threatening to crush Paula, so she restores Wonder Woman’s bracelets to her in time for the Amazon to catch the engine and save her. Steve is reunited with Wonder Woman, who asks Paula if she can make anything easier for her while she is turning her over to the authorities. Paula replies that she could be put on probation to Steve for the next 99 years.
Wonder Woman #165
Wonder Woman #166
October 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Perils of the Paper-Man” (15 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Diana Prince and Steve Trevor are at a chemical plant checking on a new process for making paper for the military when they encounter a timid factory worker named Horace, whom Diana takes pity on. Shortly afterward, Horace falls in a vat of chemicals used in making paper, and becomes a being of living paper.
November 1966 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Sinister Scheme of Egg Fu, the Fifth” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Gen. Darnell sends Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor to sea in the Robot Plane to discover what became of a missing atomic sub. They are both captured by Egg Fu V, the latest in a line of Egg Fus, whose Red Chinese crew have stolen the sub under his direction. The villain holds Wonder Woman prisoner by her own Magic Lasso, but the Amazon asks to perform a dance for him in honor of his victory. Egg Fu V agrees, and she dances, clashing her bracelets together so loudly that the sound waves shatter and destroy the villain. She and Trevor escape the enemy craft, destroying it by ricocheting a torpedo sent at them back at the ship.
Story: “The Three Fantastic Faces of Wonder Woman” (9 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: When Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor unveil what is supposed to be a statue of Wonder Woman built from copper pennies donated by her young fans, they are flabbergasted to see it has been stolen and replaced by a statue of Dr. Psycho. Later, Psycho calls Diana Prince and asks her to tell Wonder Woman that he has had a change of heart and wants her to tell Wonder Woman he will return her statue. This proves to be a ruse in which the villain lures her beneath a ray that splits off two duplicate selves from her--a tyrannical Wonder Woman and a vain Wonder Woman. Both wicked Wonder Women unite to knock her unconscious and, at Psycho’s behest, chain her to a whale’s back. But the Amazon recovers in time and frees herself. Later, by playing on the vain Wonder Woman’s ego, she convinces her duplicate to help her trap the tyrannical Wonder Woman, after which the original Wonder Woman encircles her vain duplicate with her Magic Lasso. Steve Trevor captures Dr. Psycho as Wonder Woman reverses the villain’s ray and remerges her two other selves with herself.
Story: “Once a Wonder Woman” (12 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Steve Trevor asks Diana Prince to ask Wonder Woman when she will marry him, Diana vows to make Steve fall in love with her, rather than her Wonder Woman identity. To this end, Diana, who has just been promoted to captain, stops a truck from crashing and attempts to stop a holdup gang (which Steve defeats himself) and has Wonder Woman host a costume ball in honor of Diana’s promotion, but nothing seems to work. And when the Cheetah and her gang crash the ball in hopes of stealing the charity-marked proceeds, she finally has to change into her Wonder Woman guise and defeat them. Later, dancing with Steve at the ball, Wonder Woman contemplates telling Steve about her secret identity.
Wonder Woman #167 January 1967 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Secret of Tabu Mountain” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Wonder Woman answers the request of Diana Prince, the woman from whom she took her secret identity, to rescue her fiancé Bill, who has fallen prey to an isolated Inca-like tribe atop Tabu Mountain. Story: “Strange Power of the Magic Lasso” (11 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Steve Trevor gains control of Wonder Woman through the Magic Lasso and tries to force her to marry him, but a lot of emergencies get in the way.
Wonder Woman #168 February 1967 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Three Hands On the Magic Lasso” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: The Collector hires three of Wonder Woman’s old enemies to steal her Magic Lasso. Story: “Never In a Million Years” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: An Amazon falls in love with an American pilot who has crashlanded near Paradise Island (as did Steve Trevor), and demands the right to return to Man’s World with him, which entails fighting Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman #169 April 1967 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “Wonder Woman Battles the Crimson Centipede” (13 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: Mars unleashes his latest creation at Wonder Woman, a supervillain called the Crimson Centipede. Story: “The Cage of Doom” (10 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: To make Steve Trevor jealous, Wonder Woman agrees to date General Darnell...and it succeeds.
Wonder Woman #170 May 1967 Cover Artist: Ross Andru / Mike Esposito Story: “The Haunted Amazon” (14 pages) Writer: Robert Kanigher Artist: Ross Andru Synopsis: After Dr. Psycho performs plastic surgery to make a gangleader look like Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman is psychologically inhibited from fighting him, and retires.
VOLUME 5 1960 - 1967
An Explanation of the Comics Index In this series, we examine every issue of every DC and Marvel comic book of the silver and the bronze age and also provide you with a color reproduction of the comic’s cover, a complete listing of the creative people involved in producing the comic, a summary of what happened in each adventure, and various other information. All comics indexed in a series will run in serial order, beginning with the first issue or the earliest issue that features the series being indexed. Each of the index entries is as self-explanatory as possible. Some of the criteria we used to create an index entry are provided below. Cover Credits It usually takes many people to produce a comic book cover, from conception and design through coloring and production, and it is impossible to credit them all. The Artist, responsible for the basic execution of the cover, does the lion’s share of the work. If more than one artist works on a cover, some usually pencil and the others usually ink. Records of artists and letterers are sometimes unavailable, particularly for covers that appeared many years ago, so the identities of some cover artists and letterers are the best guesses that the indexers and DC’s and Marvel's current editors and art staff can make. Credits other than Artist or Artists and Letterer appear where known. Story Information Story titles are given as they appear on the title pages, not as on the covers or in coming attractions. When a story lacks a title or title page (a rare occurrence), a note to this effect appears as a Comment. Story credits are taken from the credits as published. As with cover credits, it is impossible to credit everybody who worked on a story, but whenever additional information is available, it appears in the Index. If the published credits in a story are incorrect, the Index corrects them wherever possible.
Chronology A time line for all of DC’s and Marvel's comics that allows proper chronological ordering of the appearances of every DC and Marvel character is far from complete. Nevertheless, some appearances are known to precede or follow others. Whenever chronological information is known reliably but is not obvious from the continuity of the stories, it is noted in parentheses. “First appearance” accompanies a character’s listing when the comic is the earliest one in which the character appears. A first appearance is not necessarily a character’s chronologically earliest appearance, which might occur, for example, in an origin flashback first told many years later. As a general rule, in the case of feature characters who are members of a team but who also appear in their own features or comics, issue-by-issue chronological notations for these characters are made in the indexes to their own features, not in the index to the team feature. For instance, Superman’s chronology is noted in The Superman Index, not in The Justice League of America Index. A casual reading of a few Plot Synopses will make it abundantly clear that a whole month does not usually pass for the characters in between monthly issues of a comic. Many issues begin hours or even minutes after the previous month’s story. Consequently, a character who has had his own feature for ten years will not have aged ten years in the time it took for those comics to come out. As for trying to determine in what year a given adventure takes place, there’s no conclusive answer. Specific dates that appear in stories, as well as mention of current events and popular culture, depictions of contemporary fashions, and usage of contemporary slang, are all what is known as Topical References. These are specific details added by a writer or artist to a story to make it seem current at the time the story is being published. They are not necessarily indicators of when — what year or even what decade — a story took place.