Originally Posted by
Fuzzy Mittens
I feel like the argument being made here is that Kanigher didn't follow up on it. Alot of elements established by Marston would be ignored or shelfed, so it became a stale thing by the time O'Neil came along and did what he would do with every other book he would go on to do, and try to make it more grounded and world connected....Which would then get undone by Kanigher with yet another status quo shift.
Post crisis had alot of them, true. But its easy to overlook that over the course of pre crisis, Wonder Woman went from
Marston era status quo with Etta Candy, the Holliday girls, based out of Washington DC, and all that.
A 20 year long Kanigher run wherin he barely bothered cause he didn't actually care.
Mod era status quo wherin she moves to Greenwich Village, New York and runs a clothing shoppe while fighting crime without powers.
Kanigher return status quo shift wherin Diana works for the United Nations
Another status quo shift in which Steve is brought back to life
A year long period in which the book focused on Earth-2 and tried to capture the status quo of the tv show.
Then we get the original status quo back but Steve gets killed by another writer who makes Diana a NASA astronaut based out of Texas.
Then another writer takes Diana back to New York
And then Conway has the gods reboot everyones memory so Diana is supposedly only leaving Paradise Island for the first time in the early 80s, and gets a job at the pentagon alongside Steve, Etta, and Darnell.
The inability to follow up on what Perez established was tragically naught but a repeat of the inability to follow up on what Marston established.