 As such, the Duke was a representation of the exploitative power duplicity, particularly as it related to misogyny and patriarchal control.The character appeared regularly in "Wonder Woman", "Comic Cavalcade" and "Sensation Comics" stories throughout the 1940s and 1950s.But by the 1960s, when the Silver Age of Comics was in full-swing, the Duke had all but vanished from Wonder Woman's adventures, save for a single appearance in 1964 in "Wonder Woman" #148, volume 1.