Ya think someone was trying to suggest something with those old-timey Wonder Woman covers?
While Superman battled Lex Luthor and Batman went toe to toe with The Joker, Wonder Woman faced the dreaded Phallic Symbol. In the early days of the comic, penis-shaped objects were always out to get the Amazon (who made her debut in 1941), and month after month she’d found herself straddling a rocket, bomb, or skyscraper. 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 earlier, 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. Regardless, it made for some awesome comic book covers.
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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.)
I miss the old comic book covers. They were so innocent.
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.
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…
Looks to me in those covers like she’s keeping her vajeje inviolate by riding sidesaddle with her thighs safely together.
http://www.superdickery.com – lots more there
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.
Noted on the cover of WW#205 that she not only rode a phallus but also swore by Sappho…hmm…
These make me so harrrd. I feeeel like I Waaaaanna releaaaaase.
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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.
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.
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?
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
@ Bibitcanus
I’d accuse you of plagiarism, but I have no idea what language your website is written in.
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.
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?
Hmm. no wonder she was such a sex symbol in my youth…all those subliminal messages..