Wonder Woman #155
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWonder Woman #155 stands as one of the final entries in Robert Kanigher's 'Impossible Tales' run — the Silver Age storytelling conceit that brought together Wonder Woman, her teenage self (Wonder Girl), her toddler self (Wonder Tot), and Queen Hippolyta as Wonder Queen in adventures that defied conventional continuity. These stories, which DC's own editorial later retroactively assigned to the pocket reality of Earth-124.1, represent a distinct and idiosyncratic chapter of Silver Age imagination: a title doing something no other superhero book of the era attempted, casting a single character as her own multigenerational family. The issue also falls near the close of the lengthy Andru-Esposito artistic run on the title, a decade-long stint that defined Wonder Woman's visual identity throughout the Silver Age boom. Its selection for reprinting in DC's curated 2020 hardcover 'Wonder Woman: Through the Years' signals that editors regard it as genuinely representative of this Kanigher-era chapter of the character's history.
In "I Married a Monster," Wonder Woman faces a peculiar social experiment when her friend Allergy is encouraged to bond with a new kid, Bob—only to find the whole gang drawn into the situation. Written by Charles Moulton and brought to life with dynamic art by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, this 1965 issue explores unexpected connections and the strange ways friendships form, all under the watchful eye of a cover by Andru and Esposito.
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By mid-1965, writer-editor Robert Kanigher had been guiding Wonder Woman for nearly two decades, having taken over after William Moulton Marston's death in 1947. Kanigher developed the Impossible Tales format beginning with Wonder Woman #124 (August 1961), framing the co-existence of Diana at different ages through the narrative device of Queen Hippolyta splicing together home movies of her daughter. Issue #155 appeared on sale May 6, 1965, with all interior and cover art supplied by the longtime creative team of penciler Ross Andru and inker Mike Esposito, childhood friends who defined the look of the book across issues #98–171. The issue was produced during the final stretch of that celebrated Andru-Esposito run, just a few issues before Kanigher abruptly retired the entire Impossible Tales format with the self-referential Wonder Woman #158.
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- Cover date: July 1965; on-sale date: May 6, 1965; published by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics).
- Story title: 'I Married A Monster!' — an Impossible Tale in which Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, and Wonder Queen (Hippolyta) all appear together, justified in-universe by 'Amazon magic.'
- Written and edited by Robert Kanigher; penciled by Ross Andru; inked by Mike Esposito — the same trio who produced the bulk of the Silver Age Wonder Woman run from issues #98 through #171.
- The lead story spans 24 pages structured across four chapters and centers on Diana's decision to marry a disfigured Monster Prince who transforms between handsome and monstrous depending on his moral behavior.
- Andru and Esposito's depiction of Wonder Woman from this era was considered so definitive that their rendering of the character was used on a 2006 U.S. commemorative postage stamp.
- The Impossible Tales format used in this issue was later retconned in DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity as having taken place on Earth-124.1, a designation confirmed in multiple DC reference works.
- The issue has been reprinted at least three times: in Mighty Comic (K.G. Murray, Australia, 1965), in Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman Vol. 3 (DC, 2009), and in Wonder Woman: Through the Years (DC, 2020 hardcover).
- Wonder Woman #155 falls near the end of the Impossible Tales era; Kanigher retired the entire Wonder Family concept only three issues later in #158, where he famously broke the fourth wall to 'kill off' the characters in response to fan criticism.
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Reprinted in Mighty Comic #50 (1965), Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman #3 (2010), Wonder Woman Through the Years #[nn] (2020)
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