Showing posts with label Wonder Woman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wonder Woman. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Halloween Heroines WONDER WOMAN "Morgana the Witch" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...Wonder Woman, currently powerless, and living in Man's World as Diana Prince, fashionable Greenwich Village fashion boutique owner, attempts to aid her neighbors with a unique problem!
The boyfriend of one of the neighbors has been turned into a frog...specifically, a talking frog!
Considering her history of dealing with mystical menaces, Diana, even without her enhanced Amazon abilities, has no intention of allowing this to continue...
Yeah, it's the old "kiss the frog and he turns into a (nerdy) prince" trope!
We learn in this Mike Sekowsky-scripted/penciled and Dick Giordano-inked tale from DC's Wonder Woman #186 (1970) that not only is I-Ching a martial arts master, he's also a mystic arts master!
Morgana would reappear, but not in the pages of Wonder Woman!
Several months later, Supergirl (also written and penciled by Sekowsky) would run into a magician named Zond who, to put it politely, whups her real good!
(In pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths days, Kryptonians like Supergirl and Superman were vulnerable to only two things...Kryptonite and magic!)
The Girl of Steel goes to Diana Prince for two reasons:
1) to see if the former Amazon Princess can help her stop Zond.
2) to get a new outfit, since her costume was shredded during the battle!
Diana provides Supergirl with a "mod" costume (which becomes her primary garb for several years) and summons Morgana to help them against Zond, who, as it turns out, Morgana has a grudge against!
You can read that story, which we presented several Halloweens ago HERE and HERE!

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Halloween Heroines WONDER WOMAN "Morgana the Witch" Part 1

Our Final CountDown to Halloween 2024 Entry...

...is about a powerless Wonder Woman battling a witch!
Quick synopsis: Princess Diana chose to remain on Earth (without her powers) while the rest of the Amazons (and Paradise Island itself) were teleported to another dimension where they could rejuvenate the magicks that kept them immortal.
She met the secretive I-Ching, who trained her in armed and unarmed combat, and settled down in NYC's Greenwich Village, opening a fashion boutique.
She also began accumulating a supporting cast...


Remember, this was Greenwich Village in the early 1970s.
This sort of thing really wasn't all that unusual.
I was there, I saw stuff similar to this happening.
Now, as to the most obvious question...
Is Morgana a witch or a clever fraudster?
And, if so, how does a powerless Diana Prince defeat her?
you'll find out...on Halloween!
Written and penciled by Mike Sekowsky, inked by Dick Giordano.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Who WAS Nubia? Nubia in the Bronze Age and...On TV???

After her three-issue premiere in DC's Wonder Woman 204-206 (1973)...
...which we covered HEREHERE, and HERE, Nubia appeared only twice more in the Bronze Age...DC's Supergirl #9 (1973-74)...
...where she served as a plot device to show Supergirl as worthy to become an Amazon!
Here's her final appearance in DC's Super Friends #25 (1979)...
...where she fought a mind-controlled Wonder Woman to a stalemate until the Amazon was released from mental manipulation!
Note: though not part of pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Super Friends did follow the continuity established in the TV series, potentially-setting Nubia up for an animated appearance (which never happened)!
So, why was Nubia introduced...then ignored?
After the Wonder Woman TV series debuted, Mego launched a line of 12" action figures...

...including Nubia, in her costume from Wonder Woman #204-206!
Note the text on the box:
"It's Wonder Woman's Super-Foe!
That heartless arch-mistress of evil...NUBIA!
Direct from her reign of TV terror!
Were they going to incorporate Nubia into the TV series...which never touched upon how Diana was "born"...as an ongoing enemy?
There are rumors that singer/actress Jayne Kennedy, who had experience in genre/action roles...
...had been offered the role.
But the network (unknown if it was ABC, which handled the first, WWII-era season, or CBS, which ran the updated-to-present day later seasons) balked at having an ongoing Black villainess!
Though Nubia never appeared, Kennedy did play Carolyn Hamilton, an ex-policewoman and former associate of Steve Trevor Jr, in the second season episode "Knockout"!
Whether she was brainwashed or willingly-joined (it's never made clear), Carolyn is sent by a terrorist organization to perform an assassination, which Wonder Woman prevents!
The character was never seen again...until the recent DC Wonder Woman '77 comic, which continues plotlines and continuity from the TV series!
In DC/Dynamite's Wonder Woman '77 Meets the Bionic Woman mini-series, Diana brings Jamie Sommers to Paradise Island, where she meets...
....the now-reformed Carolyn has adopted the name of "Nubia", along with the doll's comic book-based armor and white streak in her hair!
Note: apparently living on Paradise Island stops the aging process, since WWII villainess Fausta (from the first season episode "Fausta: the Nazi Wonder Woman") hasn't aged since arriving!
There are several different incarnations of Nubia presently published by DC, none of which have any relation to either the pre-Crisis or 1970s Lynda Carter TV series versions we've shown you.
If there's reader interest, we'll cover those women in future posts!

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Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Who WAS Nubia? "War of the Wonder Women" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines...

Note: Nubia does not wear the outfit shown on this kool Nick Cardy-illustrated cover in the actual story!
...the secret origin of Nubia (aka Wonder Woman of the Floating Island) is revealed...she's Princess Diana's sister, created from clay at the same time as Diana!
Now, the long-term plan of Mars, God of War against the Amazons, utilizing Nubia as his pawn, has been implemented, so...
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!
You'd think after making Nubia the lynchpin of Wonder Woman's return to being a super-powered heroine (with a lot of attendant publicity) she would've become an integral part of the DC Universe, right!
Here's what you'll see...
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