![]() Personally, I love the beautiful villains - and for the most part, Marston’s and Peter’s villainesses were beautiful - like Giganta, “formerly a gorilla.” In fancy bras and filmy skirts, they resembled a cross between Hollywood harem girls of the period, and all the beautiful but evil women on the cover of every science fiction pulp magazine. In the 1990s, John Byrne resurrected Egg Fu, not only wacky but racist to boot, and got away with it. One of them is an evil snowman.Ĭould anyone get away with using such wacky characters today? Maybe. The prisoners are a piece of work: almost half of them are drag kings. ![]() A group of prisoners on Transformation Island, the Paradise Island reformatory, escape and spend thirty-six pages trying to destroy Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta, the Amazons, and Wonder Woman’s sidekicks, the Holliday Girls, only to be (of course) foiled at the end by everybody’s favorite Amazon. Wonder Woman #28 is a great example of the Marston-Peter team at its most gloriously over-the-top. This is part of a roundtable on Marston/Peter’s Wonder Woman #28. ![]()
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