Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace
By James A. on May 11th, 2007
Do you think those old-timey comic book artists were trying to suggest something in all those Wonder Woman covers? Superman had Lex Luthor. Batman had the Joker. And Wonder Woman, well, her biggest nemesis was the Phallic Symbol. In the early days, the biggest threat to the Amazon (who made her debut in 1941) was an attack by a penis-shaped object. And somehow, month after month, she found herself straddling a rocket, bomb, or skyscraper. And why wouldn’t she? She was only a woman, after all, and rockets look so much like — well — you know. But the phallic fun didn’t end with rockets or torpedoes. The Wonder Woman artists could turn anything into a stand-in for the male genitalia — as when the Amazon princess is the meat in a skyscraper sandwich or when, only a few issues before, she mounts another skyscraper and seems to be rubbing its tip. They even made a damn shark look phallic! Either these guys were having a little perverted fun or they were subconsciously using Wonder Woman to work out their bomb-related sex fantasies. Either way, it made for some awesome comic book covers.
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May 11th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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May 11th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I was going to say you missed the worst one, then I realised this was a Lois Lane cover:
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24964&zoom=4
(From 1972, when Diana was depowered & unable to fight skyscrapers & missiles on the cover like she had once done, so Lois filled the gap, as it were.)
May 11th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I miss the old comic book covers. They were so innocent.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Well, if she’s fighting phallic symbols, it’s a good thing she has a lasso that can wrap around things and make them do anything she wants…i.e., a vaginal symbol.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:53 am
This is too much. Torpedo, rocket, shark and if you want ph***** has shape that they have because they are naturally or technically, far before Dr. Freud and psychoanalysis, optimised for penetration through air, water or v*****. For example see mines and balloons are spherical because they don’t have to penetrate. Imagine ph***** as the sphere…
May 14th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Looks to me in those covers like she’s keeping her vajeje inviolate by riding sidesaddle with her thighs safely together.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
http://www.superdickery.com – lots more there
May 16th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
o how i love superdickery since i first visited it a year ago. it has brung me soo much joy. not just the kind of joy that a guy gets seeing WW fighting phallic symbols but discovering all the different powers jimmy got and all the other crazy stuff thats happened.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
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May 18th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Noted on the cover of WW#205 that she not only rode a phallus but also swore by Sappho…hmm…
May 20th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
These make me so harrrd. I feeeel like I Waaaaanna releaaaaase.
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May 31st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
haha! LOL at all the people online who continually “discover” that the early WW comics were perverted, like it’s some big revelation. do your research, folks! the dude that invented WW, william marston, was a bondage fetishist (as well as a polyamorist), and he created WW in order to instill his fetish in as many young readers as possible, resulting in (he hoped) a whole generation of young people who were turned on by getting tied up. read about the guy– total pervert. all that sexual imagery is 100% intentional– the guy was a psychologist (he actually invented the lie detector), and he knew exactly what he was doing.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I almost wrote: “What years were these published in? Maybe the Japanese didn’t invent henti!”
Then I remembered Japanese octopus tentacle porn paintings three hundred(?) years old. Never mind.
Nice effort with the shark, though.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:07 am
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July 10th, 2007 at 3:23 am
[...] Superman hatte seinen Lex Luthor. Batman hatte den Joker. Klar, Superhelden brauchen Gegner, mit Superkräften faul auf der Couch rumliegen wäre ja einfach zu langweilig. Die Kette mit den Gegnern von Helden könnte man jetzt komfortabel noch einige Seiten fortführen, aber… was ist eigentlich mit Wonderwoman? Natürlich, als Amazone von Welt kämpft sie gegen Männer. Stop, stimmt auch nicht so ganz. Genauer betrachtet ist das einzig erkennbare Muster Raketen, Hochhäuser, Torpedos, kurz gesagt: penisförmige Objekte. Die Macher von Wonderwoman, schätzungsweise Sexualtriebtäter, belassen es aber nicht bei offensichtlichen genital geformten Dingen, auch Haie werden da gerne mal zum Ersatzpenis. Mehr Beweise hier. [...]
September 7th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
In the skyscraper sandwich cover the cracks in the two buildings almost suggest the outlines of arma and hands grasping at her thighs. Does anyone else see that or am I just fantasizing this?
September 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Hi,
I have taken some ideias from this post to my blog. In fact I was writing on other odd aspects of Wonder Woman (bondage and femdom) An then I found this post and it proved to be an useful source for more information. I hope you don’t mind it.
http://bibitcanus.blogspot.com
September 8th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
@ Bibitcanus
I’d accuse you of plagiarism, but I have no idea what language your website is written in.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:30 am
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October 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am
James,
Of course it inst a case of plagiarism, in fact as I previously said here I take some of your ideas to highlight other that I was working on. Besides I have quotted this blog at the end of the post.
But anyway if you don’t approve that, I can erase the whole thing.
November 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
RE: “Either way, it made for some awesome comic book covers and fodder for young boy’s fantasies.”
Yeah… but maybe it wasn’t only boys – y’know?
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December 17th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Hmm. no wonder she was such a sex symbol in my youth…all those subliminal messages..
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