This is the Moment of Awesome page for Wonder Woman Volume 1. For the Awesome page for the Wonder Woman franchise at large see Awesome/Wonder Woman.
"Charles Moulton"
- Just Etta Candy in general, a short, fat, candy eating lady with no powers whatsoever who has more confidence than Wonder Woman herself, loves life, runs what is essentially an unofficial commando unit and will run into fights where the odds are overwhelmingly against her to help her friends and allies and always comes out on top in the end.Wonder Woman: Etta, you're wonderful!Etta (about to punch a mook in the face): Sure I am - I owe all my success to candy!
- In #3 Etta rescued Wondy, (who'd been captured after her initial infiltration) and, alongside Wondy, freed all the children held at a Nazi concentration camp despite being armed with a box of chocolates, which she used to distract a guard so she could cave his head in with a bit of building material.
- In #5 Etta fought some crooks she ran into while she had a toothache, and then had to fight them again once it became clear they were planning insurance fraud. She spent the whole time lamenting how she just wanted to get to a dentist since she was in incredible pain and offhandedly took down three armed career criminals despite having no weapons or powers herself.
- In #10 Steve Trevor's reaction to being called on to intercept a space ship carrying Diana and the Holliday Girls is to immediately fly the invisible plane out there, have a brief sarcastic daydream while flying of his wonderful girlfriend becoming a housewife and being safe for once, getting out of the plane and dangling from the ladder once it's in range for Di to pilot telepathically, and for this odd act to pay off when he saves Diana's life since she was messing with Saturnian Gravity Screw tech and would have fallen to her death if he'd not caught her. He then casually compliments her on restraining her captor rather than comment on what she'd just done.
- In issue #16, King Pluto has Villainous Valor moments when he will not give up seeing Wonder Woman and her allies taken down, first by threatening to destroy their "color bodies" when they refuse to obey him, then escaping through plutonic ice that Wonder Woman has to uproot via a tree, then bringing his castle and its slaves down below to light up his dismal realm and evade capture up top, and then successfully tricking them and plotting to kill their flesh-and-blood bodies so their colorful selves will be his slaves. When Wonder Woman manages to thwart his plans, he escapes to Earth and captures Steve as revenge. Wonder Woman then gives him a dynamo to have lighting without slaves to power it, and he agrees to use it...and then double-crosses her by planning to kill everyone's color bodies anyway to make one last light show. Steve Trevor then saves the day by unchaining Wonder Woman, letting her free her friends and take Pluto's horses with her so he can't cause more trouble.
- Diana's final defeat of the Saturnian Emperor, where he simply folds rather than fight her despite being in a room full of his guards due to him remembering what happened the last time he tried and that his agents have realized she can No-Sell their telepathic abilities. The fact that she was able to talk him into a treaty with the US that he not only holds to but becomes important in following story lines and which makes it so that the US is trading tech with a space faring society and has a Saturnian ambassador in DC means that she's changed the world irrevocably (at least until Marston's death, at which point subsequent writers ignored that any of this had happened.)
- Issue #28 is significant for not only featuring the second Legion of Doom in comics in the form of Villainy, Incorporated, but having Big Bad Eviless enact a scheme where she lets herself be captured to learn how the Amazons' Transformation Island reformatory works, faking her own death so Wonder Woman will leave to get help and sneakily sabotaging her Venus Girdle and stealing the Magic Lasso, then retaining enough of her villainy even with the Girdle to resist its effects. Then she breaks out other captured villains, enlists them to capture Hippolyte and every Amazon on Paradise Island with nerve gas, and successfully captures Wonder Woman herself. With Wonder Woman and Hippolyte set to be executed, a reformed prisoner, Irene, decides enough is enough and frees herself and the other captives, and they all work together to save Wonder Woman, who dispatches Villainy, Inc.
- Later, Zara, Hypnota, Clea, and Giganta escape, and the former two capture Wonder Woman and try to make her kill a disobedient minion. Etta Candy saves the day by breaking Wonder Woman's chains, and when Giganta and Clea capture Wonder Woman later, Steve saves the day by bringing in the Robot Plane to free the girls.
Robert Kanigher
- Issue #131 shows a yearly trial Diana faces to continue operations as Wonder Woman. For the first, she travels across a gorge on a tightrope, which is made more difficult when Jupiter hurls thunderbolts at her as a prank. Wonder Woman deflects the bolts back at him and makes it safely across to her second challenge, which is to catch a golden apple before it hits the ground of the Underworld. When Cerberus catches the apple and communicating with him fails, she uses her super-breath to inhale and catch the apple right before he drops it to give to Pluto. Her third and final task was to bring up the ship the Amazons emigrated to Paradise Island with, and with the help of a giant swordfish, she dueled Neptune for the ship and succeeded in bringing it up.
Mod Era
Cary Bates
- Issue #215 has Wonder Woman and Aquaman team up to stop Mars from causing an Amazon-Atlantean war. Despite his subterfuge and attempts to keep them from realizing his involvement, they manage to stop the war and defeat Mars, with Aquaman specifically reporting on Wonder Woman's feats of strength and wisdom.
Elliot S. Maggin
- Issue #225 has Wonder Woman capture a bolt of black lightning with her lasso, then ride it to where it can explode safely without injuring anyone.
Martin Pasko
Gerry Conway
Roy Thomas & co.
Dan Mishkin
Mindy Newell
