![]() Included in Volume 2 is Wonder Woman stories published in: Sensation Comics 25-48, Wonder Woman 8-15, Comics Cavalcade 6-8, and one story from the unnumbered Big All-American Comic Book. But it's to be expected from the best artist ever to work on this character.Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 2 covers the January 1944 to December 1945 time period. On a side note, H.G.Peter is at his best in these pages, especially with some awesome covers and the design of AMAZING villainesses. On Kanigher, I think I'll stick to his military series better from now on. ![]() The best era ever of the character hands down with the two best writers of all time (the original creator and his assistant), Emotions of Normal People previously read as an absolute requisite. Notice also the presence of the last official Marston story, well written and developed for a man that was literally in a bed dying. Rant on Kanigher aside, the real gem of this book is Joye Murchison, who shines in the more space-oriented issues and who, apparently, gave birth to Wonder Girl before Kanigher "officialy" did it in the Silver Age. It's also baffling to make a comparison between these stories and the following silver age era, because it seems that while Marston and Murchison were able to write different stories with different ideas retelling the same concepts and messages over and over and over and over in the span of ten or more years ol' Bob wrote WW for THIRTY YEARS and all he could do was to retell over and over and over and over his later golden age stories. ![]() However, when Joye Murchison left for good, shit hit the fan REALLY hard and we're left with crap like WW losing the bracelets to a bracelets collector like nothing because after years of submission she doesn't need them anymore (?). ![]() ![]() In the first stories, when he was just mimicking Marston and Murchison as much as he could, the clear-as-day ignorance of the real psychological theory behind the comic didn't stop him to write interesting stories with tender moments like Hyppolita saying "people never know what they're capable of, sometimes even a bird has to be shown he can fly". I'll just say this: now I understand why people generally don't like that much Bob Kanigher tenure on this character, because the only reason I didn't give a full five stars rating is the last hundreds of pages where "The Rock" unleashes all his lack of ideas and stilted writing. ![]()
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