Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #41
Published May 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing M C Gaines (managing) Sheldon Mayer (editor), Julius Schwartz, Ted Udall (assistants)
Notes All-American Comics bullet on cover

Cover Details - "The Adventure of the Octopus Plant"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy
Genre superhero
Pencils Harry G. Peter [as H.G. Peter] (signed)
Inks Harry G. Peter [as H.G. Peter] (signed)
Notes All-American Comics bullet on cover.
Reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)

13 page Wonder Woman story "The Octopus Plants"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls; Steve Trevor (cameo); Lyra Lang (Lar's daughter); Creeper Jackson (villain, introduction, reforms); Lars Lang (villain, introduction, reforms)
Synopsis The chance meeting of Diana Prince and a weird man who grows the most unusual flowers leads Wonder Woman into a case involving kidnapping and attempted murder.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher ? [as Charles Moulton] (signed)
Pencils Harry G. Peter [as H.G. Peter] (signed)
Inks Harry G. Peter [as H.G. Peter] (signed)
Reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives (DC, 1998 series) #6 (2010)

6 page Little Boy Blue story "The Fantastic Face"

Characters Little Boy Blue [Tommy Rogers]; Toughy; Tubby; Dan Rogers; Miss White; Sid; Danny (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero; children
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes )

6 page Mr. Terrific story "The Smiling Spendthrift"

Characters Mr. Terrific [Terry Sloane]; Wanda Wilson; Jim Grace (villain, introduction); Big Bill Steven and his gang (villains, introduction for all)
Genre superhero
Pencils Stan Aschmeier [as Stan Josephs] (signed)
Inks Stan Aschmeier [as Stan Josephs] (signed)

2 page text story "Modelled In Clay"

Genre adventure
Script Jack Miller [as Jay Marr] (signed)
Letters typeset

7 page The Black Pirate story "King of All-Fools' Day"

Characters The Black Pirate [Jon Valor]; Justin Valor; Donna Bonita; the Jester (villain)
Synopsis The Jester is captured and replaced with an imposter in an attempt to steal the Queen's jewels.
Genre period
Pencils Alfonso Greene (signed)
Inks Alfonso Greene (signed)

8 page Wildcat story "The Texas Terror"

Characters Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Stretch Skinner; Rolly Cody (Ted's cousin, introduction); Grandpa Cody; Rags Ragout (villain, introduction)
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Gallagher
Inks Joe Gallagher