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IDW To Collect Wonder Woman Newspaper Strips Written By William Moulton Marston

It was announced in March of last year that IDW Publishing was going to team up with DC Entertainment and The Library Of American Comics to produce a series of hardcover collections of the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman newspaper strips. The Superman and Batman collections were released previously.

I wonder at the time how many people knew about the Wonder Woman strip. All that the 75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art Of Modern Mythmaking had to say about it was: "Wonder Woman" newspaper strip was introduced in 1944 but failed to build much of a subscriber list and was canceled within a year."

It ran from May of 1943 to December of 1944 and was written by Dr. William Moulton Marston the creator of Wonder Woman and drawn by Harry G. Peters. These two were also producing the comic book at the same time. That series is now being collected in a 196-page hardcover book.

So what did the comic strip look like? How did it differ from the comic book? Were some of the same motifs carried over? Well, we can see by the sample below that shackling Wonder Woman was still part of the stories. For more than that we'll have to wait for the book.

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