Seduced by Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman 44
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Wonder Woman 44 Universal
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Grade:
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5.0
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Page Quality:
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CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
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Certification #:
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3727489013
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Owner:
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GAM
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Wonder Woman #44 is referenced in Fredric Wertham’s “Seduction of the Innocent” (SOTI) in the text on page 193.
On page 193, Wertham describes Wonder Woman as follows “For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls, she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are anti-masculine. Wonder Woman has her own female following. They are continuously being threatened, captured, almost put to death. There is a great deal of mutual rescuing, the same type of rescue fantasies as in Batman. Her followers are the ‘Holliday girls,’ i.e. the holiday girls, the gay party girls, the gay girls. Wonder Woman refers to them as ‘my girls.’ Their attitude about death and murder is a mixture of the callousness of crime comics with the coyness of sweet little girls. When one of the Holliday girls is thought to have drowned through the machinations of male enemies, one of them says: ‘Honest, I’d give the last piece of candy in the world to bring her back!’”
The “Honest, I’d give the last piece of candy in the world to bring her back!” quote comes from the story “Chapter III: The Final Battle of the Sargasso Sea” contained in Wonder Woman #44. Typical of Wertham, he is sloppy with the details as the quote comes from Etta Candy in reference to Diana Prince not another Holliday girl.
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