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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published November-December 1946
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Sheldon Mayer (editor); Robert Kanigher (assistant)

Cover Details - "Wonder Woman and Red Beard the Pirate"

Characters Wonder Woman; Red Beard; Nifty
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter

11 page Wonder Woman story "Terrors of the Air [Part 1]"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Professor Chemico; Etta Candy; Steve Trevor; Nifty (Villain; Intro); General Darnell; the Air Pirates (Villain; Intro); Karma Monster (Villain; Intro); Nifty's Husband (Air Pirate; unnamed)
Synopsis Diana Prince has a strange feeling about Etta's friend Nifty, and it's not just that she's secretly an air-pirate, intent on stealing Professor Chemico's formula for harnessing nuclear power.
Genre superhero
Script Joye Murchison
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes Joye Murchison verified to Jerry Bails.

1 page Ton o' Fun filler "Why Shouldn't I Talk Back to Grandfather?"

Script Harry Lampert
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Notes gags

4 page Wonder Women of History story "Lucretia Mott"

Synopsis Story of Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), a Quaker minister and anti-slavery activist who used her eloquence to champion equal rights for women and blacks.
Genre bio
Script Alice Marble
Pencils Robert Sale
Inks Robert Sale
Notes Credits verified by Jerry Bails (October, 2005). The Motts left the Quakers in 1827 because of the Quakers' disapproval of her activism.

11 page Wonder Woman story "The Rage of Redbeard [Part 2]"

Characters Wonder Woman; Etta Candy; Steve Trevor; Captain Redbeard (Villain; Intro); Nifty (Villain); Karma monster (Villain); Paula von Gunther; Holliday Girls; Queen Hippolyte
Synopsis The Karma Monster brings the Air Pirates to Charleston Harbor, 1750, where they battle Wonder Woman in an earlier incarnation as sea pirates.
Genre superhero
Script Joye Murchison
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter

1 page Ton O' Fun filler "Since When Are Animals Playing Football?"

Script Harry Lampert
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Notes gags

2 page text story "The Case of the Horseshoe Nail"

Script Jim Robinson
Letters Typeset

1 page Out of the Gag Bag filler "Our Daughter Has Arranged a Little Piece"

Genre gag
Script Art Helfant
Pencils Art Helfant
Inks Art Helfant
Notes gags. Credits by Craig Delich 9/05

14 page Wonder Woman story "The Pirates' Galley Slave [Part 3]"

Characters Julius Caesar; Nifta [Nifty] (Villain); Rufus (Villain); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Stevus [Steve Trevor]; Etta Candy; Holliday Girls; Serva; Karma Monster (Villain)
Synopsis Wonder Woman and friends are reincarnated in Ancient Rome, where they fight for their lives in the arena and on the open seas.
Genre superhero
Script Joye Murchison
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes As her friends toast with wine, Wonder Woman opts for fruit juice. At story's end, it is explained Nifty's desire for revenge was powering the Karma Monster. In this chapter, Steve does not remember his later reincarnations, knowing only that he is Stevus, Roman gladiator.