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sweetheart’s golden bondage stilettos get wet. The sun is shining, the scene is ideal complete with flowers and fluffy cotton ball clouds, and the two lovers, free from the toils of war can now blush innocently and gaze into each other’s eyes. Within this issue Steve proposes to Wonder Woman and she accepts under one condition – that she not be needed for a single day. Steve tries his best to keep her safe from the action, but due to her strong sense of responsibility and refusal to let the local police handle a local gang, Wonder Woman woefully rejects the proposal and tells him marriage will only happen when she is no longer needed. One thing of note here is Wonder Woman’s demotion from Nazi-plot-destroyer to local-gang-subduer. As one can imagine, this struggle to decide the theme of Wonder Woman as either a bondage-fueled super hero saga or teary romance comic deeply affected Wonder Woman’s readership. Purchased by a staggering majority of male readers, this new direction failed to resonate with them. This demographic wasn’t interested in her romantic foibles and scruples, they wanted to see her get back in the action, but not in the place of a man. This tussle with gender roles and the expectations of its target market continued to plague the character for the next twenty years. It’s this struggle to make Wonder Woman a heroine and still force her into the gender roles of her time that makes D.C. Comic’s Wonder Woman, issue 176 published in June 1968 and written by Robert Kanigher so fascinating. Three triplets vie for Wonder Woman’s attentions, but they’re weak and not that attractive, so she doesn’t give them the time of day. However, when they are given a super hero serum from a mysterious scientist and become beefcake hunks, they manage to pique Wonder Woman’s interest. This happens just in time to protect her from the dreaded date of June 18th – the one day a year she loses her powers. While she refuses to fall for any of them, Wonder Woman drawn to their newfound animal magnetism
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