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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published February 1956
Frequency monthly with the exception of March, June, Sept., and Dec.
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Robert Kanigher (actual)

Cover Details - "The Mask of Mystery!"

Characters Wonder Woman
Genre superhero
Pencils Irwin Hasen
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Cover pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (28 August 2007); Craig Delich and Jerry Bails believe both pencils and inks to be the work of Irv Novick (October 2005)

7 page Wonder Woman story "The Mask of Mystery!"

Characters Machino (intro; villain); Wonder Woman; Steve Trevor
Synopsis It's a race against time as Wonder Woman attempts to remove an impenetrable time-bomb mask affixed to her face while she was sleeping.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes Wonder Woman reads braille; it is noted Wonder Woman had sent Machino to prison 10 years earlier.

Half page Wedding Notions filler "After a Wedding in the Provinces of North England."

Synopsis North England; Ireland; Western Scotland.
Genre Romance

1 page Women of Distinction! text story "The Honor of Being the First Woman College President."

Synopsis Frances Elizabeth Willard; Mrs. Belle Martell; Mrs. Mary Kies; Mrs. Josiah Taft.

8 page Wonder Woman story "The Origin of the Amazon Plane!"

Characters Wonder Woman; The Waterfront Gang (intro, Villains); Queen Hippolyta
Synopsis Wonder Woman recounts the three trials she completed to win her Robot Plane.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes Unlike earlier versions, this Robot Plane does not seem to be a product of Amazon science; how it was created is not disclosed. It is noted the plane will respond to the voice of the person daring enough to collect and assemble its parts.
Reprinted in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #211 (April-May 1974); in Wonder Woman (Tempo Books, 1978 series) #1453 (black and white, opening paragraph missing).

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Do You Know How to Be a Good Babysitter?"

Characters Buzzy; Susie; Mrs. Williams; Johnny Williams.
Synopsis The rules to being a good babysitter.
Genre teen

2 page The World's Most Famous Valentines! filler "The Earliest Known Valentine."

Synopsis Charles, Duke of Orleans; John Lydgate; Henry V; The Duke of York; Lady Arabella Stuart; Emperor Claudius; Juno Regina (goddess).
Letters typeset

7 page Wonder Woman story "SOS-Saturn!"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor
Synopsis Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor help repel an attack on Saturn from Titan, one of its moons.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Harry G. Peter
Inks Harry G. Peter
Notes The Robot Plane has a magnetic ray; this version of the Saturnians are possibly different from the evil slave-driving Saturnians seen in Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #10 (Fall, 1944).