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Show 226 and is invested in World War II, feeling that his power will grow with a Nazi victory. He wears a simultaneously futuristic and medieval-looking helmet, mocks Aphrodite, and gets his ass kicked in hand-to-hand combat by Wonder Woman on several occasions. Wonder Woman is also aided by Etta Candy, the overweight, candy-obsessed director of the all-girl Holliday College. Wonder Woman is able to contact Etta and those girls via "mental radio" when she needs assistance. Etta's main function otherwise seems to be standard comic sidekick, the "comic" aspect mainly fulfilled by saying "I sure wish I had some candy" at the end of any given scene. This was me at age twelve: wiry, bony, social failure already determined enough that I had no apprehension about spending my waking hours reading comic books in the basement and talking about what I'd read at school. Although she did not help advance my social life, I considered reading Wonder Woman to be a complete and rewarding practice-she provided hope about things I couldn't articulate at the time. Also, the books were valuable as a pragmatic distraction from other events. I started bringing Wonder Woman comics to scout camps, stored in the foot-of-the-sleeping bag place that was supposed to be reserved for pornography, or embarrassing nostalgic comforts from home you didn't want the other scouts to see. |