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Issue Details

Issue #114
Published May 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Kanigher
Notes Added missing Wonder Girl story and fillers (2008-01-07 Allen Ross).

Cover Details - "The Monster Express!"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([August] 2007) [in black and white].

1 page public service announcement "What's Wrong with These Pictures?"

Synopsis A quiz on general manners and safety information for children.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes On inside front cover.

6 page Wonder Woman story "The Monster Express!: Part One: The Runaway Balloons!"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; General Darnell; robot plane
Synopsis Steve Trevor watches Wonder Woman guiding a giant balloon of herself in the Tracy Day Parade. A sudden wind blows away all the giant balloons and their handlers. Wonder Woman calls her robot plane, and rescues all the people.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([August] 2007) [in black and white].

10 page Wonder Woman story "The Monster Express: Part Two"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; robot plane; s-bomb
Synopsis Wonder Woman and Steve track down the runaway balloons, just to find that they have become animated, and attack various items including trains, planes, and dams. Even the giant Wonder Woman balloon now moves and has stolen an S-bomb. Wonder Woman lassos it, and takes it to space. In space, there is a fleet of flying saucers waiting to invade Earth, but in trying to blast Wonder Woman, they crash into the giant balloon, setting of the S-bomb, destroying them.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([August] 2007) [in black and white].

1 page text article "Pre-Historic Women"

Genre fact
Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Readers' Choice!"

Notes House ad for The Brave and the Bold #29 (Justice League of America) and Showcase #26 (Rip Hunter).

2 page The Fittin' Thing! filler "Behind the Wheel!"

Genre gag

9 page Wonder Girl story "Wonder Girl's Robot Playmate!"

Characters Wonder Girl [Diana Prince]; Queen Hippolyta; Robot Girl; Merboy
Synopsis Young Princess Diana is lonely, with no one her age on Paradise Island. The scientists there make her a robot playmate, but things don't quite go as planned.
Genre Superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted In Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page filler "Wedding Forecast!"

Genre Fact
Script Julius Schwartz?
Pencils Morris Waldinger?
Inks Tommy Nicolosi?
Notes First line: "To determine which of her many suitors she was destined to marry, a girl would scratch each of their names on an onion, and allow the onions to sprout in a dark place."

4 page advertisement "Ads"

Notes A total of 4 one-page ads for: Palisades Amusement Park NJ (amusement park), Do You Want Spending Money? (greeting cards, Stephens Credit Sales), In 15 minutes I'll Prove You can have a Rugged, He-Man Body! (muscle-building info, Joe Weider), and Win a Beautiful Signet Ring (Clovering Brand Salve, Wilson Chemical Company). Appear in various places in this issue.