‘Wonder Woman’ Newspaper Strips Coming from IDW

Jun 29, 2014

While the newspaper strips obviously didn’t contain William Moulton Marston’s fixation and focus on bondage and submission as in the early comics, the 1940s saw Wonder Woman hit the news page and IDW Publishing is collecting the entire run with a first 196 hardcover volume. The strips were actually produced by the same comic book team which included Marston and artist Harry G. Peters. Wonder Woman: The Complete Newspaper Comics will be available this August.

From IDW Publishing:

In partnership with DC Entertainment, IDW Publishing and Library of American Comics is pleased to announce the August release of Wonder Woman: The Complete Newspaper Comics, which collects the entire original Wonder Woman newspaper strip that ran from May 1, 1943 until December 1, 1944 for the first time ever!

Just a few years after Wonder Woman burst into comic books, the world’s most famous female superhero starred in her own daily newspaper strip written and drawn by the same creative team that produced the comic book: William Moulton Marston (writer) and Harry G. Peters (artist).

This beautiful 196-page hardcover book starts the story on Paradise Island where Amazonian women rule supreme and no men are allowed. Their way of life is about to change when Steve Trevor, a wounded American soldier, washes up on their shores. Soon, Princess Diana of the Amazons—rechristened Wonder Woman—is off to America, where the saga continues!

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