Weird Wonder Woman

[suedenim]

Brilliant thread but that Hembeck cartoon with Aquaman stll has me scratching my head, decades on.

Not too surprising, as it was probably a bit of a head-scratcher even at the time, but I figured it out (largely because I have a Super Friends TPB at an easy reach.)

For some reason (I guess to suggest the curvature of a TV screen), the panels of the Super Friends comic book were always drawn with rounded corners, instead of rectangles.

[AndyMangels]

I can't beleive no one posted this one yet! Weirdest ever in that it was supposed to be serious.

Fine, I was saving this up for another day, but here you go. DC's own PR attempt to both make it palatable and explain it for readers who had missed it in those pre-VCR/Tivo days. From Amazing Word of DC Comics #1, July-August 1974:

[AndyMangels]

And here's page two, also from Amazing Word of DC Comics #1, July-August 1974:

[AndyMangels]

i have a tiny comic book called 'blunder woman' - i know there was another one about the justice league also.
http://www.wonderwomancollectors.com/misc-4.html
Item: Wonder Woman Blunder Woman Mini Comic
Manufacturer: Topps
Year: 1967
Description: 2.5" x 3.5" eight-page comic featuring a Wonder Woman spoof called Blunder Woman...

That's one of the comic book items I don't have in it's original form, but thanks to Roy Thomas printing the art in an early issue of Alter Ego (and reprinting in the Alter Ego book, available from TwoMorrows), here is a look at the comic.

If you want to see more (but lower quality images) of the others in the series, go to The Bronze Age of Blogs

Cover concept by Len Brown and Art Spiegelman
Script pp. 2-7 Roy Thomas
Art by Wally Wood
Back cover by Art Spiegelman

[AndyMangels]

Blunder Woman also appeared in the "Krazy Little Comics" issue called "Jesters League of America.
Again, this is one of the comic book items I don't have in it's original form, but thanks to Roy Thomas printing the art in an early issue of Alter Ego (and reprinting in the Alter Ego book, available from TwoMorrows), here is a look at the comic.

Cover concept by Len Brown and Art Spiegelman
Script pp. 2-7 Len Brown?
Art by Gil Kane and Wally Wood
Back cover by Art Spiegelman

[Dwayne McDuffie]

Something I've read (and I believe Dwayne McDuffie or someone involved in recent DC animation confirmed) is that the contracts between DC and Marston had an oddball clause about adaptations. Apparently, the clause allowed Wonder Woman to appear only in a "starring" role, not as a guest or cameo.
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I've never heard anything like this.

[Flamebird]

Back when we were all pining for Gail to take over WONDER WOMAN, someone reprinted this with the word-balloons changed. In the revised version, Wonder Woman, tired of the long delays between issues, takes matters into her own hands and seduces Gail into taking over the book by giving her delicious snack cakes. ("I don't have time to write your book too!" "So give up GEN 13! Noone reads it anyway!").

I want to see that one!

and Gen13, when I wrote it, was actually the best-selling WSU book by quite a number!

You did. But it was years and years and years ago, when you were still on BIRDS OF PREY and Heinberg was doing WW. I tried to find it --I think it was on the Geoff Johns BoP forum-- but too much time has passed and it's apparently gone.

I think Cooky LaMoo (The poster, not the giantess) posted it...

It was Madison Lee. I actually found it. I thought it was lost in the board crash over there.

[Flamebird]

Superheroines commercial, with arguably the best looking WW since Lynda Carter.

SuperHeroines

[AndyMangels]

Appearing in French Kiss Magazine The "X" Factor by Messina is an erotic parody of Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman.
Not sure of the year but it's probably from early 2000.

This appears to be the same artist as David Messina, who is now working for IDW on Star Trek and Angel books, but not completely certain.

Took a little digging, but I found out it's from French Kiss Comix #10, May 2004, for those interested... But the "Wonder Woman" doppleganger (an actress in costume) is only really identifiable by her tiara, bracelets, and sometimes boots. The rest of her costume (or lasso) never appear. *ahem*

[AndyMangels]

I've never heard anything like this.

Welcome to the boards, Dwayne McDuffie, excellent JL and Milestone writer!

Glad to hear I didn't make a misstatement!

[EricAD]

I've never heard anything like this.

I have...If I remember correctly, it was an interview with Bruce Timm. He was asked why Wonder Woman was not used in the JLU episode of Batman Beyond, and he said that was the reason...getting Wonder Woman to guest star in anything required lots of jumping through legal hoops. I wish I could site when/where I read that but I know I didn't just imagine it.

Superheroines commercial, with arguably the best looking WW since Lynda Carter.

SuperHeroines

omg...love that commercial. If it only had Supergirl too It would be perfect!

[suedenim]

I have...If I remember correctly, it was an interview with Bruce Timm. He was asked why Wonder Woman was not used in the JLU episode of Batman Beyond, and he said that was the reason...getting Wonder Woman to guest star in anything required lots of jumping through legal hoops. I wish I could site when/where I read that but I know I didn't just imagine it.

That sounds familiar. I know it was from someone directly involved at a high level on one or more of the shows.

[suedenim]

And here's page two, also from Amazing Word of DC Comics #1, July-August 1974:

It looks like we got page one twice here.

[DeltaBadhand]

Here's a Debra Winger as Wonder Girl appearance almost 10 years after the Wonder Woman series ended on the David Letterman show. She discusses the series and Lynda Carter and then at the end....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXgzLv5eDDo

[Raven Of Rhiannon]

I heart you, Delta Badhand!