Wonder Woman #16 is an issue of the series Wonder Woman (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1946.
Synopsis for "In Pluto's Kingdom"
In the Holliday College dorms Lorrie wakes Etta Candy and a couple of other Holliday Girls screaming, and when they run to her room she claims a giant had broken into her dorm and been standing over her bed holding a "pitchfork". Her concerns are dismissed as a nightmare brought on by her concern over her poor grades, but the next night she is abducted from her room and a heavy bident the Holliday Girls can't lift is left on her floor. Etta calls Wonder Woman's mental radio for help.
Diana takes the bident to Aphrodite's temple on Paradise Island looking for information and the weapon's presence in her temple angers the goddess, who confirms Diana's fears that it belongs to Pluto, but dismisses the myths about Pluto as legends rather than facts. Rather than being the god of the underworld as legend claims Pluto is an extraterrestrial being that has been abducting young women from earth for centuries.
The Holliday Girls launch an experimental rocketship to Pluto and Wonder Woman tags along to rescue Lorrie and protect the girls. When they arrive the icy ground cracks open when the bident is set on it, dropping the women into a pit where they are spun out of their physical bodies and left as "color bodies". Color bodies soon turn out to be used as energy sources for Pluto, and once they are used up the victims physical bodies are used as slaves, which turns out to be the fate of the women Pluto has been abducting, at least those whom he doesn't turn into decorative light emanating statues by destroying their physical bodies first. Wonder Woman manages to free herself and the Holliday Girls and reunite them with their bodies.
In a bid to save his other victims and stop him from abducting more women Wonder Woman gives Pluto a dynamo as an alternate power source, and while he accepts it he decides to murder his remaining captives rather than free them to spite Wonder Woman. She frees the gals instead and rejoins their "color bodies" with their "earth bodies" before returning the lot of them to Earth, while also stealing Pluto's space travel capable steeds in order to make it more difficult for him to return.
Appearing in "In Pluto's Kingdom"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Amazons
- Holliday Girls
- Etta Candy
- Lorrie
- Hester
- Gaye
- Steve Trevor
- Dean Sourpuss
- General Darnell
Antagonists:
- Plutonians
- King Pluto
- King Pluto's Plutonic Guard
Other Characters:
- Aphrodite
- Persephone
- King Pluto's Horses
- Ebony
- Demeter (Mentioned only)
- Trevor's Secretary (Final appearance)
Locations:
- Pluto/Hades, the Underworld Kingdom
- River of Liquid Fire
- River Styx
- Earth
- Paradise Island
- Aphrodite's Temple
- Paula's Laboratory
- Washington, D.C.
- Paradise Island
Items:
- King Pluto's Fork of Fate
- Hotaqua Gun
- Mental Radio
- Paula's Dynamo
Vehicles:
- Holliday Experimental Rocket Ship
- King Pluto's Chariot
- Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
Synopsis for Wonder Women of History: "Madame Curie"
A simplified telling of Curie's studies and discoveries concerning radioactivity.
Appearing in Wonder Women of History: "Madame Curie"
Featured Characters:
Other Characters:
- Pierre Curie
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Ève Curie
- Eugène Curie
Notes
- Published bi-monthly by Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc., with "A Superman Publication \ DC", trademark on the cover.
- Chapters:
- Part 1: "The Secret of the Dark Planet"
- Part 2: "The River of Liquid Fire"
- Part 3: "King Pluto's Revenge"
- This issue is reprinted in 'Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 7'.
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