Real name: Mavis
A.K.A.: N/A
First appearance: Wonder Woman I#4 (April/May 1943)
Abilities: Piloting
Quote: "I'll teach you to answer me respectfully!"
Worst act: Nazi, also breaking Wonder Woman's bracelets
Created by: William Moulton Marston (script), Harry G. Peter (pencils/inks)
Getting back into the proper continuity, we the see the actions of Paula's past coming back to haunt her. It was established early in her appearances that the Baroness had some slave girls under her command. Mavis was one of those, although not named until issue 4.
Yeah, the Baroness getting away with a clean slate? Mavis wasn't having that at all. She makes her intentions clear by stealing Wonder Woman's invisible plane and trying to bomb Paradise Island. She gets captured and sent to Reformation Island, but escapes and takes over a Nazi spy ring in the US. She also captures Wonder Woman again and cuts off her bracelets, which turns the Amazon Princess into a crazed berserker.
Mavis was an interesting character. You could feel some sympathy, and even argue she had a point (Paula getting a clean sheet, no one mentioning her being a Nazi, etc.) although that is dimmed when she takes over as Nazi spymaster. Maybe Marston had a point about victims of abuse continuing the cycle but I'm not sure if I want to assign motive.
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