Wonder Woman Complete 1944-45 Newspaper Comics Marston / Peters IDW 1st Ed HCDJ
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Wonder Woman: The Complete Newspaper Strip 1944-1945
by William Moulton Marston
Illustrations by Harry G Peters
Published by IDW Publishing, 2014
Condition:
Excellent++ 1st Edition / 3rd Printing Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! NO MARKS! All 175 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The binding is tight but does have slight damage on the inside front cover (shown). The covers are perfect! The dust jacket is in excellent condition with minimal wear, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking!
About the Book:
In the history of American comic art and popular culture, few characters have achieved the enduring cultural resonance of Wonder Woman — and fewer still have origin stories as rich and complex as the one surrounding her creation. This remarkable volume from IDW Publishing collects, for the first time in print, the complete run of the Wonder Woman daily newspaper comic strip — a series that ran from May 1, 1944 through December 1, 1945 and has remained, until this publication, one of the most elusive and least-seen chapters in the character's long history.
What makes this collection particularly significant is its creative provenance. The newspaper strip was produced by the same team responsible for the original comic book: writer and Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peters — ensuring a direct, unmediated continuity with the character's earliest and most mythologically rich incarnation. The story begins on Paradise Island, where the Amazonian society rules in sovereign isolation, no men permitted within its borders. That equilibrium is shattered when Steve Trevor, a wounded American soldier, washes ashore — setting in motion the events that transform Princess Diana into Wonder Woman, champion of justice in the world of men.
The strip's brief run of just over eighteen months makes a complete, high-quality reprinting of this material genuinely rare in the collector market. For enthusiasts of Golden Age comics, feminist pop culture history, newspaper comic strip art, and DC Comics collectibles, this volume fills a meaningful gap in the historical record.
This copy presents in excellent++ condition: binding tight, all 175 pages bright white with no writing, underlining, highlighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. Covers are perfect, and the dust jacket shows only minimal wear — exceptional for a volume of this age and desirability. A 1st Edition / 3rd Printing in this condition is a genuinely fine example for the serious collector.
About the Creators:
William Moulton Marston (1893–1947) occupies a singular and endlessly fascinating place in the history of American popular culture. A Harvard-educated psychologist, lawyer, and inventor — credited with an early contribution to the development of the polygraph — Marston created Wonder Woman in 1941 for DC Comics under the pen name Charles Moulton, conceiving her as a deliberate counter to the male-dominated superhero landscape of the era. Marston's vision was explicitly feminist and psychological: Wonder Woman was designed to embody love, truth, and feminine strength as a model for readers of all ages. His theoretical writings on the psychology of women and power informed every aspect of the character's mythology.
Harry G. Peters (1882–1958) was the visual architect of Marston's vision — the artist whose distinctive, boldly graphic style defined Wonder Woman's visual identity through the Golden Age. Peters brought to the strip a quality of earnest, expressive draftsmanship that perfectly suited Marston's mythological storytelling, and his work remains among the most recognizable and historically significant art in the DC Comics canon.
Together, Marston and Peters created not merely a comic strip character, but a cultural icon whose influence on American popular culture, feminism, and the superhero genre continues to resonate more than eight decades later.
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