Real names: N/A
A.K.A.: Doe
First appearance: Sensation Comics I#8 (August 1942)
Abilities: Smooth talking
Quotes: "It is those shop girls who treat Miss Bullfinch abominably!"
Created by: William Moulton Marston (script) and Harry G. Peters (pencils/inks)
In what might be a first, at least for Wonder Woman, we have a story 'inspired' by true events. In the comics itself, Wonder Woman wages war on wage slavery when she investigates the goings on in the Bullfinch Department Store.
The workers are mistreated and paid starvation wages, while the owner, Ms. Gloria Bullfinch, is unaware; having been hoodwinked by her fiancé Prince Guigi Del Slimo. Del Slimo is actually in cahoots with store manager Mr. Googins to rob the place. Steve Trevor gets kidnapped but Wonder Woman saves the day.
The true events would have been ripped from the headlines, as 17 year old heiress Gloria Vanderbilt had just married the much older and widowed agent (also alleged gangster) Pat DiCicco in 1941. DiCicco was a real piece of work (mostly garbage), but the story could be a coincidence.
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