Wonder Woman Marries A Monster 

Do you think the monster ever became a "dreamboat" again?

"Before you're an old maid" "Steve, i'm 2,000 years old."

You just have to admire the shade of Wonder Woman inviting her would-be suitors to her wedding, and them hitting back by attending the wedding naked.

If you told me Steve Trevor, Manno, and Birdman were all the same person transformed through Silver Age machinations I would have believed you

I’m starting to see why the Amazon’s hate the men of this universe

"Wonder Woman Marries A Monster." So silver age superman.

I love how "Wonder Woman saved me/didn't kill me" equals "She loves me" who can argue against that logic? 🤣

When I read this issue, I also read the letters page, which had a letter from a 9 year old girl who claimed to have an IQ a few points short of genius level, and to have published a book of poetry, including a poem about Wonder Woman (who thanks her for the honor)! Out of curiosity, I googled her name from the letter, Mary Karr (it's not cyber-stalking if you have a web page and wikipedia entry!), and learned that that kid went on to become a famous and prolific poet and essayist who is a prof of eng lit to this day! While we can't give WW all the credit for her success, it's nice to know that she fulfilled her intended purpose as an inspiration for girls everywhere...

I can see why the Amazons all decided to live in an island, holy hell

"Mom can we get Steve Trevor?" "No we have Steve Trevor at home." The Steve Trevor at home.

I was gonna say that Wonder woman in this issue feels like Lois Lane, but Lois would have probably try to marry all of them, including the mosnter to make Superman jealous

Kanigher's Wonder Woman is a trip. Especially when you realize he's the same guy who wrote all those intense Sgt. Rock war stories. He's clearly aiming for a younger audience here, and approaches the plots with a sort of "fairy tale" logic. But as you point out, he also includes a lot of mocking humor that makes it seem like he's contemptuous of the whole enterprise. He also had a somewhat prickly relationship with his audience; in a bizarre meta-fictional sequence in #158, he shows a mob of fans protesting outside his office. And yet, he stayed on the series for a couple of decades, so he must have been enjoying it on some level.

I can't believe Wonder Woman is Tentaclist. Sure, the fact that he'd kidnapped her or just that she doesn't want to are perfectly adequate reasons to turn down a proposal, but she had to go with "You've got too many arms"!

The dual hypocrisy from this comic could've been seen as a theme, but I don't think that was never the author's intentions.

One of the things I find fascinating about this time period is how often Wonder Woman fights an evil doppleganger. Sometimes it's a robot. One time, it was a giant robot. But almost every other issue, Wonder Woman is fighting someone who looks like Wonder Woman. I put this down to the fact that Wonder Woman doesn't have great recurring enemies, but in this era, it always feels like she is her own worst enemy.

Oh god, Lois is spreading.

I imagine that in the main Silver Age continuity, there was no falling castle so she successfully took the vacation.

Ah yes Tom King being petty for the sake of being petty while also flexing hes “in the know” what a surprise

I find it interesting that Manno compares Steve to Don Juan. While Steve and Bird-Man are just dismissive of their.... "rivals", Manno just confidently goes "Yeah, Steve is hot.". And, let's not go to Paradise Island. 'Tis a silly place.

Wonder Woman seems like an empty vessel? Well, she is made out of clay. (I guess "Wonder Homunculus" just doesn't have that alliterative zing)

He looks like a mix between a Skrull and the Broccoli aliens Dark Phoenix killed.

I lot of people compare the structure of Kanigher's Wonder Woman stories to that of a fairy tale. But I feel like the better comparison would be to old, cell animated cartoon shorts. These cartoons (like the original Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse cartoons) almost never had scripts. They didn't even really have storyboards in the modern sense. Instead, they had "gags." Gags were visual jokes lasting from 30 seconds to roughly two minutes. It could be something like "character slips on a bar of soap" or "character gets into a boxing match with his own jacket." The animators would come up with a premise, just as a way to direct these gags towards a specific theme, setting or concept. Then, anyone on the animation team could submit a gag. If a gag was particularly strong, but didn't get picked, they would often save it and use it in another short. This feels very much like how Kanigher writes a Wonder Woman story. He comes up with a couple of ideas for scenes (lassoing a bolt of lightning, fighting a Sphinx, fighting King Kong) and then contrives a story so that he can string together these disconnected moments. It's a style of writing that lends itself somewhat better to comedy than it does to more "straightforward" fantasy adventure stories like Wonder Woman. I think if he had played everything a bit more tongue-in-cheek then it would have worked better.

Surprised Lois Lane didn't marry that guy before Wonder Woman.😂

This story felt like a fever dream

Mannos the tentacles of fate lol. I was honestly waiting for Louis to manifest herself there when the monster turned handsome going " cursed handsome man you say? Don't mind if I do!"

I seem to recall this story being revisited in one of the Sugar & Spike segments of the Legends of Tomorrow anthology book. Those segments featured the now-grown toddlers working as private investigators whose clients were all superheroes and their cases all involved some element from classic goofy Silver Age stories. (The Sugar & Spike segments were written by the late Keith Giffen, so of course they focused on Silver Age goofiness.)

Poor Steve Trevor can't catch a break. I think I'm in Steve's corner in the quest for Wonder Woman's affections. Why? Because he saw her first? Because he has a better pet name? Because writers are often horrible to Steve? Because he's not feathery or clammy? I don't know. He needs to work on that proposal though. In fact, they all do. Someone needs to start a "School of Courtship and Propositioning" and enroll them all tout suite. Loved the vid, your voices, your humor, your analysis ... all the things!

The story feels very much like a product of its time, as well as an attempt to fill in issue with a story that was just ready to go, and they just kinda like plugged wonder woman into it, because it was very little that was specific to her like the invisible jet. I mean, I can see where it’s kind of sweet that she would drop everything to help somebody when she just proved that she’s very antithetical to people coming onto her fairly strongly . Basically saying that she’s not opposed to the idea, but that everybody is going about it the wrong way, but then the monster needs to act like less of a dick. I don’t know. Love your videos, and I always look forward to seeing what kind of hair is going to be on display today, I really love it every time

The Silver Age apparently didn't treat our Diana well. Also noticed the title was something out of a 50s B-Movie. "I Married A Teenage Monster" or something.

You mean that Wonder Woman dated the internet content created Birdman?

Donna Troy: "I cannot believe you almost married that monstruos creature, sister!" Diana: "Yeah...At least it wasn't Terry Long, anyway..." Donna Troy: "Yeah..."

It seems like consenting & mutually respectful relationships in comics weren't invented until the mid 1980's, and weren't widely implemented until the early 2010's. At least that's my take on history. 😜

What the hell was the Silver Age's obsession with marriage?!

Wow, I can see why people would hate this. This feels like it should have turned out to be a dream or hallucination. Maybe a play on the BTAS "Perchance to Dream", where the villain keeps trying to make Wonder Woman fall in love and be happy, which is why all the love interests have Steve's face. That would also explain Wondergirl and Wonder-Tot being there. There's the gem of an idea here, especially playing with ideas of forced social norms vs Wonder Woman's radical feminism.

Birdman and Manno the Merman surely have more appearances if you count their younger selves, where they were romantic interests of Wonder Girl (Wonder Woman as a girl), not Wonder Woman, and thus were not meant as rivals to Steve Trevor. If I remember correctly, Merboy and Birdboy were the first versions of these two love interests and they encountered Wonder Girl a few times and then were later used in grown up Wonder Woman stories later.

This is hilarious! Bird man's got chicken legs. Craig the Broccoli man works.

So all of this feels like a crazy valentine's day episode of a sitcom that the main character will wake up in the end and say:"thank god it was just a dream". In this case"thank Hera". I prefer to remember Diana for the plane she flew than this 😅

Out of all the weird, insane silver age stories I've seen and read, this is the weirdest and most insane!

I had this cover in a really good Wonder Woman classic covers calendar and got to enjoy looking at it for a whole month. Yes, this cover does "make the rounds." Fun to actually know da tale. Thank you, o' keeper of the lore.😁

The whole Kanigher era is rough. There are some great ideas but most of them never get fully developed. And while it wasn't common for Silver Age comics to go that deep if you look at Batman & Superman comics from the same era there is definitely strong storytelling around villains and supporting cast. This always struck me as a "Written for the Cover" story where they had the cover and had to construct a story around it. Have you discovered Mouse Man yet? One of her most boring yet full of potential villains from this era -- unlike the Angle Man who is so dull that I forget he was a Silver Age villain.

If you told me this was written by King I wouldn't be surprised. He Tries so hard to do well, only to come up short, for me. His love for the classics often doesn't translate through my filter. Gotham year one was a good example of this. He loves the pulp, but he doesn't modernise it well. It's really more.of a regurgitation. But to each their own.

I haven't laughed so hard at one of these comics in a while. This is perfect silver age unintentional comedy

At first, going in, I thought this was going to be a story where Wonder Woman is surrounded by guys who look good on the outside (when they haven't turned into large mollusks ) but are terrible on the inside. Then, we would get a guy who looks horrible on the outside but is good on the inside, even if it was run at the speed of a hummingbird on a a caffeine high. Then, it turns out the monster has self-loathing issues. OK, that can still work. . . . Except . . . it turned into not respecting boundaries and trying to fix a broken person and still manages to end on a note of looks mattering more than inner qualities. Points for Hippolyta being a fanfic writer and Wonder Woman inviting the guys she wants to understand she's not going to marry them to the wedding, where they still don't get it. Also, I liked the completely random sphinx. We need more completely random monster attacks with no back story, tragic or otherwise.

I’ve been doing a lot of research and I find it super fascinating how obsessed DC is with the solar system planets and their respective kingdoms in the golden age, especially in Wonder Woman. The Jovian metal creatures, Desira, Celerita, Ceezahr Kaan of Pluto, King Ulala of Uranus, and the Moon Beast are all examples

Wonder Woman and the Monster Prince make a Lovely Couple; Don't you think so too Sasha?

I wonder if this was the inspiration for Bird-Person, LOL! Also, nice to know this was around the time DC editorial just kinda forgot that Wonder Tot and Wonder Girl ARE Wonder Woman at younger times in her life, which is how WG ended up joined the Teen Titans...So that worked out well in the long run!

Someone get james gunn on the phone we have found our wonder woman movie !!!!!

Silver age Wonder Woman and Kanigher lead to Wonder Woman being treated as a property no one wanted to write and is why Diana, to this day, still has no really strong direction, cast, or city of her own.. The sad thing is too.. Robert Kanigher could really write. He was a fantastic writer. He just.. clearly didn't give a rats ass about Wonder Woman (which to be fair, he was assigned Wonder Woman and that became a trend.. of writers being FORCED to take Wonder Woman, not openly wanting to write her).

Name for a green skinned monster 🤔💡Bruce Banner !!! Keep Up The Outstanding Work Sasha 🖖🏾

Wow! Lassoing lightening is in continuity! I take back some of the insults I hurled at WW1984.

He looks like Beast Boy’s evil cousin or something.

LOL always love your takes on these comics

i hate it -but i love when you retell it o us and do the different voices, i never get tired of that hahaha

What drugs was Robert Kanigher on when he wrote these comics?

I like this. Thank you

Bro got lost on his way to a Doom Patrol book and was upset he couldn't foster Beast Boy

To go by those stars round Steve's head he probably had a concussion from the desk incident. If they reprinted this one it would say at the front 'contains fishist, birdist and drylandist dialogue. Which happened at the time but is represented here...' etc.

Suffering Sappho lol why isn't that her version of Superman going Great Rao! I love it so much

Just let Diana be with Cheetah and be happy.

Back in the 1970's there was a fanzine writer, Carol A. Strickland, who published print fanzines, this was pre-internet about Wonder Woman and also would write about other female heroes, I also recall her writing about the Legion of Superheroes which was considered DC's version of the X-Men at the time. I remember her writing fan fiction about the WW family even giving Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot names.

Got a good one to cover. Batman/Santa Claus Silent Knight. A 4 issue mini series where Batman and Santa team up against Krampus.

Now I'm wondering why we never got a Guillemo del Toro directed Wonder Woman movie.

Some real Pepe LePew energy.

I knew a lady who had a bumper sticker that said, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach... AND UP."

Wonder Woman would probably be happier with Comet

I love how your impersonation of the Beast sounds like the late Gilbert Gottfried.

One of the best CC episodes! Lmao Sasha's comments and voice overs are great. Lol. So Diana does not care about a man's lower half? Favorite Sasha Quotes: "Mano has seen too much henti, and so have I." "Don't do anything that Steve or Mano or Birdman or the eventual Monster do" (Me: "Can't change what has already happened☺️")

Love the videos. I like the idea of Wonder Woman dating batman but never able to settle down with him. Kind of like justice league unlimited’s portrayal

Wonder Tot sounds like a frozen potato snack

Ahh what a sweet story, the lesson at the end is especially great; when men treat you horribly, just make better food for them woman! 😤

The writing from that WW era isn’t necessarily my fav but DAMN Andru’s art always knocks it out of the park.

This came back in the Sugar And Spike Investigators comic miniseries.

If you didn’t have to jump off a cliff knowing you could die, no one could match Lois.

LoL the octopus 🐙

How about reviewing one of the Wonder Woman vs Supergirl battles? Perhaps Wonder Woman #177?

This legit feels like a Wattpad story in comic form! 😂🤣😂🤣 dud Andrew Tate write this story?? 🤣🤣🤣

the groom is definitely on the Munster Family Tree

now you know how superman felt being hounded by lois

Did the monster have a previous run in with Lois “handsome?” Lane? Cause that would explain a few thing?

I feel like you could do an interesting nod to this using Wonder Girl and Beast Boy and maybe Hawk Man, Aqua Man, and some other non-super guy to stand in for Trevor.

I looked through your past videos, but couldn't find out whether you have read and reviewed The Brave and the Bold # 63, a team-up FROM this era (The Wonder Fam is in it briefly) with Wonder Woman teaming with Supergirl. It's cheesy, but fun.

I remember seeing this in a the all new Batman and the brave and the bold comic issue 16 ‘love at first mite’ story

The monster must live in the same solar system to the Asparagus people.

Please do an episode on Wonder Tot and other little kid variations of characters.

3:05 no wonder everyone in the letters wanted Steve Trevor dead! 😂 He was awful, arrogant and entitled! The behavior of all three of her love interests in this book is so creepy and borders on sexual harassment. On a less serious note: Ah yes! Nothing says “true love” like not hitting someone, but not hard enough to kill them!

"It shouldn't be erased". Are we sure about that? Why are all the men she knows so "frisky" all of a sudden? How did her mom just piece together what happened to the monster? I'm ugly and grumpy. Why don't a island of beautiful women try to cheer ME up? Where the hell did that sphinx come from? How long did Wonder Woman feed him? Did he move or is he still next door? This is going to haunt me.

Manno looks the most desperate.

The thing I miss most about this era of WW is the exclamations. When was the last time she shouted "Suffering Sappho"?

Valentine's Day came early I see

😂😂😂 Wonder woman should take a long vacation on Praise island

There were 3 monsters here. The 4rth was not really one.

I think it's funny how you pointed out that we should just leave this monster man alone, cause it does kinda illustrate how these stories don't even benefit men in their weird sexism. No one should replicate anyone's actions in like this entire issue, all of them are kinda disrespecting each other's boundaries. Which I guess is what can make it bemusing in a way.

Steve Trevor in this, the Mirage Mirror and other stories is a total goon. He comes close to Silver Age Superman in terms of sheer gittishness.

I was really hoping it would have ended with it turning out that Cupid was actually making everyone crazy.

You think that she would marry him just to teach the other three guys a lesson about their behavior and make them see their mistakes. They would apologize and she would call off the the wedding which would make the monster angry and attack, which would prompt the three guys to work together to subdue him. They then hit it off as friends and decide to go have a beer together completely forgetting about Wonder Woman who simply looks to the viewers and says the infamous line..."Men." Oh and as for the monster, his real bride shows up. Apparently she had a problem with her dress and needed to get it fixed which calms the monster, they get married with Wonder Woman being the brides maid...The End. But maybe I'm over thinking it.

Wonder Woman was definitely just holding up Manno

So Superman and Wonder Woman both got Silver Age merperson love interests? Where's Batman's aquatic girlfriend then?

I was just very confused XD Also... THAT'S IT!? I don't know whether to be upset that the story didn't end in a satisfying manner, or be glad that it's over. Either way, this was hilarious. XD

Hilarious and entertaining, the men clearly need to analyze their personalities before even thinking of marriage, lol. Also, maybe The Poet, from Teen Titans number 15, would be a fun match for Diana.

Do you plan gonna talk about the Robinson/John’s JSA? ( best black canary imo)