Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Robert Kanigher (Author), Ross Andru (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (November 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401219489
• ISBN-13: 978-1401219482
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.1 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #674,066 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars impossible but true, March 8, 2009

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Robin Snyder (Bellingham, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. 2 (Paperback)

Fans and critics have argued over the matter for years: What is RK's best work? Rock? Enemy Ace? The Flash? Metal Men? But rarely, if ever, name Wonder Woman. I will.
Is this Kanigher's best work? Stories of mystery, suspense, romance, adventure, science-fiction, drama, fantasy and horror starring Wonder Woman, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena and as swift as Mercury and featuring the most unique cast in the comics: Steve Trevor, The Impossible Family, Angle Man, Hercules, Mer-Boy, the Multiple Man, Mister Genie and many more.
The best of the best may be "Wonder Tot and the Flying Saucer" or "The Island Eater" or "The Robot Wonder Woman" or...
It's impossible but true but Robert Kanigher has topped himself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonder Woman without pretension!, February 2, 2009

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Robert M. Price (Selma, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. 2 (Paperback)

In these issues of Wonder Woman we see the middle period, as I reckon it, of the character's evolution. In the Golden Age she was quaint and subtly comical, and that was all right, given the conventions and even the nature of even "serious" adventure comics as "funny books." But Wonder Woman becomes significantly more serious in the Silver Age, though with that light, whimsical touch we associate with the Silver Age. You can measure this by comparison to the various post-Crisis on Infinite Earths attempts to make her relevant and epic in tone, as Marvel's Thor was as soon as Jack Kirby took over penciling chores. New creative teams have tried to get a handle on the character and the concept for years now, producing many enjoyable results, but eventually requiring yet another reboot. Yet I might say the instability of the character, or the difficulty of finding new, serious ways of dealing with her, have illustrated how she really belonged in an earlier era. This one, the Silver Age. Just as Captain Marvel has never succeeded outside of his original Fawcett run, no matter what mutations and indignities DC has put him through, and Hawkman has suffered more from inane editorial decisions than from Gentleman Ghost and the Shadow Thief (till Geoff Johns resurrected the Winged Warrior), Wonder Woman still searches for a place in the modern era. May she needs to hook up with Geoff Johns. But in the beautiful tales contained in this Showcase collection, she is in her element! When you behold her face (as drawn by Ross Andru and Mickey DeMeo), her huge limpid eyes, you realize that Lynda Carter was born to play her!

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much MerBoy and Wondertot, November 10, 2009

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Kelly C (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showcase Presents Wonder Woman Vol. 2 (Paperback)

I was so excited to receive this Volume 2, but I had hoped it would be the Wonder Woman stories I remembered from being a kid, where she is at work in the Army with Steve and has adventures with the Holiday girls, but this particular volume is not that. Almost every story involves Wondergirl (teen Wonderwoman) and Wondertot (Wonderwoman as a baby) which I could care less about. Plus, there is a love interest named Merboy (A mermaid teen boy) who has the same story in this book a hundred different ways where he loves Wondergirl, she wants to focus on being an Amazon, she saves him from something, etc. The only positive from this volume is that it all takes place on Paradise Island, which I always wanted to read more about, but as it is Wonderteen and tot that live there, I wasn't so interested. I am hoping that other volumes will have the era that I love, but if you love Wondergirl, Wondertot, and Merboy, this is the volume for you.