Doubtful, it may seem...still true. I'm not picking on you, here, and I understand what you're saying, ..but, understand what
I'm saying.
Go to
Carol Strickland's WW history website or the
Amazon Archives site and see what I'm talking about, for yourself. In the 1950s and early Sixties, when the rogues galleries of
Batman, Superman, Flash, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and
the Hulk were being brilliantly and consistently developed - backstories, mythos, etc - Robert Kanigher was pitting Wonder Woman against Egg Fu, the Human Centipede, Mouse Man and a host of other silly, (thankfully) forgettable characters, ..and that set this comic back, decades behind the others! That is'nt me and some of the other longhorn fans grumbling, Agent Z...
That's just how it was.
In spite of brilliant editorial contributions like Nubia and the 'Mod Era', editor Robert Kanigher may be the worst thing that ever happened to Wonder Woman. Back when fans actually wrote and mailed typed and hand-written letters to the WW comic, begging him to take her more seriously, Kanigher openly mocked and dismissed the fans and went right back to work, ..writing WW, as though it was
Alley Oop, Popeye the Sailor or some other silly, Sunday newspaper comic strip. Unable to imagine a world in which a super-
heroine could be a comic book icon, Kanigher made Wonder Woman, a water cooler joke in the sexist, male-dominated comic industry of his time. His tenure on the title continued into the Seventies, ..and we are sifting through the debris.
Doubt all you like, but look at Timely's superheroine comics in the late 40s and early 50s, like
Sun Girl, Miss America or
Venus, and you'll see that what I'm saying is true.
And God bless
Lynda Carter and the dynamic life and humanity, with which she brought Wonder Woman to life...considering what she had to work with! In spite of her best efforts,
the New Adventures of Wonder Woman was, at best, a glorified, 70s-period
cop show, ..with costumed superheroics thrown in for a
twist. That TV show rarely pitted WW against super-powered antagonists, didn't use the super-villains in her brand
NEW, 70s comics -
Nubia, Doctor Cyber, the Dark Commander, Osira, Silver Swan, Bushmaster, the Adjudicator - and contributed nothing memorable to her rogues gallery, whatsoever. The show also ignored Golden Age villains being revamped in the comics, ..like
Atomia, Mars, Doctor Psycho, Conquest, the Duke of Deception and the
Nuclear Marauder, ..some of whom would have been perfect foils for Carter's Wondy and the popular issues of the mid-70s.
Wonder Woman hasn't been developed
apace, with the other major comics, ..and that's all there is to that. Editorially speaking, she's behind them, by, at least, a few decades, and that's going to take time -
time, time, time - to fix and catch her up with the others. I'd love to believe that
Rebirth and the upcoming movie is going to change that outcome, Agent Z...sure hope it will.
We'll see.