Michael Regan
Nov 6, 2007, 01:30 pm
Wonder Woman #59
June 1953
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Story Title: Wonder Woman's Invisible Twin!
Creative Team: Not credited
As Wonder Woman changes into her uniform, she glances into the mirror and suddenly feels invisible hands wrapped around her throat. She struggles against the unseen force for a few moments until it suddenly vanishes, but somehow there is not mark on her neck.
Later while walking down the street, Wonder Woman glances at her reflection in a shop window and is shoved through it.
While walking through a park, she notices her reflection in the surface of the lake when her legs and arms become mysteriously pinned and she is thrown into the water. She struggles to free herself for a few moments when she is suddenly and inexplicably free.
Outside the park, Wonder Woman notices a high speed police chase. She quickly runs after the chased car, halting it with her lasso but is suddenly tripped up by an invisible roadblock. Her failure hits the headlines and the criminal underworld use the news to plot against her.
That evening, while crossing a bridge in a thunderstorm, Wonder Woman chances upon the same car she was unable to stop earlier. Laughing, the criminals throw her lasso to her, but as she grasps it from the air it is hit by lightning and she is thrown over the edge of the bridge. As she falls, the bridge is replaced by a cliff, below her she sees boats from the past, and beside her falls what appears to be her duplicate. As they hit the water, they dive under and swim away in order to avoid the archers on the nearby ships.
When they surface in safety, Wonder Woman learns that her double is Tara Terruna, which means Wonder Woman. Tara tells her that her kingdom has been under the rule of Duke Dazam for the last couple of weeks and they must work together to free her people. Somehow Duke Dazam had made many attempts on Tara's life during this time and Wonder Woman was also affected by the attempts.
The two heroines attack the enemy fleet of ships, swimming around them at high speed until the ships crash into each other. They invade the palace Dazam manages to wrap a noose around Tara's neck. Before he can do any further harm, he is caught from behind by Wonder Woman's lasso.
On top of the palace, the two Wonder Women bid each other farewell as Wonder Woman's lasso is again struck by lightning sending her home to the instant when she originally left. This time she is able to capture the criminals before they can escape.
Characters:
Duke Dazam
Terra Terruna
Wonder Woman
Story Title: The College of Magical Knowledge!
Creative Team: Not credited
At the Leprechaun College a special event is beginning where, once every century, they choose a human to become a student. if the student passes their tests then the college will cease to exist. By random draw they choose Wonder Woman and they all begin to worry about their futures.
Wonder Woman receives the message and realizes that she must do her best with the challenges presented to her, but also knows that if she passes the school will close.
The Leprechauns work hard to compile a list of challenges that the Amazon will not be able to accomplish and present her with her tasks.
Her first task is to bring back a yard of lightning. She runs out to the forest and while standing at the tops of the trees attracts the lightning with her bracelets. She captures an arc of electricity between her bracelets and returns it to the leprechauns triumphantly.
For her second task she is to stand in front of a mirror without casting a reflection. While standing in front of the mirror, Wonder Woman begins running on the spot so quickly that she manages to vibrate into the future and back, therefore never actually leaving the same spot but also not casting a reflection.
For her final task she must fly to the moon to retrieve a piece of the green cheese it is made of. Knowing the moon is not really made of green cheese she tried to think of a solution as she flies to the moon. All she finds petrified blue and yellow plants, but with her tremendous strength compresses two of the plants together, changing their atomic structure into green cheese.
The leprechauns fear her arrival, but when she produces the green cheese they discover that it is yellow. It appeared green on the moon, but under the sunlight on Earth it appears to be yellow. Wonder Woman has managed to succeed and fail both at the same time.
Characters:
Wonder Woman
Story Title: The Million Dollar Penny!
Creative Team: Not credited
Wonder Woman asks millionaire Joshua T. Whyte to make a donation to charity, but he refuses. He explains that made his fortune in six years and shows her the first penny he ever earned. He challenges Wonder Woman to turn his first penny into a million dollars within twenty four hours, otherwise he will contribute nothing.
She has the coin appraised and because of its age she is offered $25 for it. While the man opens his safe to pay her, they are held up by masked gunmen. Wonder Woman captures the men and collects a $15,000 reward for their capture.
Still trying to figure out how to earn more money she finds Professor Dawlor sitting in the park. The professor has pent all his money on his latest invention but is short the final $15,000 he needs to get it from his builder. She pays off the builder, and they take the machine to the Sylvan Hills where they will use it to find a uranium deposit. Unfortunately the machine is housing a time bomb and Wonder Woman barely manages to throw it out of harm's way to explode.
Back to her original penny, she manages to locate the uranium when the penny becomes radio-active. She earns $750,000 for her share of the find.
The next day she accepts a contract for $249,999.00 to construct a dam for the town and builds it single-handedly.
Rushing back to Joshua T. Whyte, he determines that she has failed, earning only $999,999.99 until she hands him the original penny winning the contest.
Characters:
Professor Dawlor
Wonder Woman
Joshua T. Whyte
June 1953
<img src="http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/dc/wonderwomanv1-59thumb.gif" hspace=3 align=top align=left alt="Wonder Woman #59" border="0"> (http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/images/covers/dc/wonderwomanv1-59full.jpg)
Story Title: Wonder Woman's Invisible Twin!
Creative Team: Not credited
As Wonder Woman changes into her uniform, she glances into the mirror and suddenly feels invisible hands wrapped around her throat. She struggles against the unseen force for a few moments until it suddenly vanishes, but somehow there is not mark on her neck.
Later while walking down the street, Wonder Woman glances at her reflection in a shop window and is shoved through it.
While walking through a park, she notices her reflection in the surface of the lake when her legs and arms become mysteriously pinned and she is thrown into the water. She struggles to free herself for a few moments when she is suddenly and inexplicably free.
Outside the park, Wonder Woman notices a high speed police chase. She quickly runs after the chased car, halting it with her lasso but is suddenly tripped up by an invisible roadblock. Her failure hits the headlines and the criminal underworld use the news to plot against her.
That evening, while crossing a bridge in a thunderstorm, Wonder Woman chances upon the same car she was unable to stop earlier. Laughing, the criminals throw her lasso to her, but as she grasps it from the air it is hit by lightning and she is thrown over the edge of the bridge. As she falls, the bridge is replaced by a cliff, below her she sees boats from the past, and beside her falls what appears to be her duplicate. As they hit the water, they dive under and swim away in order to avoid the archers on the nearby ships.
When they surface in safety, Wonder Woman learns that her double is Tara Terruna, which means Wonder Woman. Tara tells her that her kingdom has been under the rule of Duke Dazam for the last couple of weeks and they must work together to free her people. Somehow Duke Dazam had made many attempts on Tara's life during this time and Wonder Woman was also affected by the attempts.
The two heroines attack the enemy fleet of ships, swimming around them at high speed until the ships crash into each other. They invade the palace Dazam manages to wrap a noose around Tara's neck. Before he can do any further harm, he is caught from behind by Wonder Woman's lasso.
On top of the palace, the two Wonder Women bid each other farewell as Wonder Woman's lasso is again struck by lightning sending her home to the instant when she originally left. This time she is able to capture the criminals before they can escape.
Characters:
Duke Dazam
Terra Terruna
Wonder Woman
Story Title: The College of Magical Knowledge!
Creative Team: Not credited
At the Leprechaun College a special event is beginning where, once every century, they choose a human to become a student. if the student passes their tests then the college will cease to exist. By random draw they choose Wonder Woman and they all begin to worry about their futures.
Wonder Woman receives the message and realizes that she must do her best with the challenges presented to her, but also knows that if she passes the school will close.
The Leprechauns work hard to compile a list of challenges that the Amazon will not be able to accomplish and present her with her tasks.
Her first task is to bring back a yard of lightning. She runs out to the forest and while standing at the tops of the trees attracts the lightning with her bracelets. She captures an arc of electricity between her bracelets and returns it to the leprechauns triumphantly.
For her second task she is to stand in front of a mirror without casting a reflection. While standing in front of the mirror, Wonder Woman begins running on the spot so quickly that she manages to vibrate into the future and back, therefore never actually leaving the same spot but also not casting a reflection.
For her final task she must fly to the moon to retrieve a piece of the green cheese it is made of. Knowing the moon is not really made of green cheese she tried to think of a solution as she flies to the moon. All she finds petrified blue and yellow plants, but with her tremendous strength compresses two of the plants together, changing their atomic structure into green cheese.
The leprechauns fear her arrival, but when she produces the green cheese they discover that it is yellow. It appeared green on the moon, but under the sunlight on Earth it appears to be yellow. Wonder Woman has managed to succeed and fail both at the same time.
Characters:
Wonder Woman
Story Title: The Million Dollar Penny!
Creative Team: Not credited
Wonder Woman asks millionaire Joshua T. Whyte to make a donation to charity, but he refuses. He explains that made his fortune in six years and shows her the first penny he ever earned. He challenges Wonder Woman to turn his first penny into a million dollars within twenty four hours, otherwise he will contribute nothing.
She has the coin appraised and because of its age she is offered $25 for it. While the man opens his safe to pay her, they are held up by masked gunmen. Wonder Woman captures the men and collects a $15,000 reward for their capture.
Still trying to figure out how to earn more money she finds Professor Dawlor sitting in the park. The professor has pent all his money on his latest invention but is short the final $15,000 he needs to get it from his builder. She pays off the builder, and they take the machine to the Sylvan Hills where they will use it to find a uranium deposit. Unfortunately the machine is housing a time bomb and Wonder Woman barely manages to throw it out of harm's way to explode.
Back to her original penny, she manages to locate the uranium when the penny becomes radio-active. She earns $750,000 for her share of the find.
The next day she accepts a contract for $249,999.00 to construct a dam for the town and builds it single-handedly.
Rushing back to Joshua T. Whyte, he determines that she has failed, earning only $999,999.99 until she hands him the original penny winning the contest.
Characters:
Professor Dawlor
Wonder Woman
Joshua T. Whyte