Today in Comics History, May 9, 1909: Happy birthday, Steve Trevor, happy birth...oh. Never mind.

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published May 9, 2017.

Hey, happy birthday, Steve Trevor, always played by Lyle Waggoner in my head!


from DC Comics: Bombshells #1 (DC, October 2015); script, pencils, inks, and colors by Marguerite Bennett; letters by Wes Abbott

Today in Comics History, February 14: Steve and Diana / Sittin' in a tree / Discussing Army cutlery

from "Bittersweet" in DC Love is a Battlefield one-shot (DC, April 2021), script by Crystal Frasier, pencils and inks by Juan Gedeon, colors by Ulises Arreola, letters by Marshall Dillon

365 Days of Defiance, Day 64: Keep on pushing

You won't succeed in resistance every day. But determination and hope tells you...maybe today you will.




Panels from Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman #33 (digital, May 2015), script by Josh Elder, pencils by Jamal Igle, inks by Juan Castro, colors by Wendy Broome, letters by Deron Bennett

Today in Comics History, Thanksgiving Day: It's Thanksgiving and I'm busy eating stuffing so here's some Thanksgiving comics

Here's hoping your Thanksgiving is full of wonder!



from Wonder Woman (1942 series) #114 (DC, May 1960), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Gaspar Saladino

Men are from Mars, Women are from Themyscira

Ladies and gentlemen: meet Colonel Steve Trevor: jerk:

Panels from Wonder Woman #130 (May 1962), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito
Wait a minute, why is Diana even asking Steve to go out if he's already scheduled something with Wonder Woman? Is she just testing him? Is she trying to play with his mind? Is she as jerky as he is? Why, yes. Yes. And yes.


Well, that's certainly no way to behave on a date, huh? That's like going out to dinner with Clark Kent and just talking about how wonderful Superman is. And I think we've all done that. (Lookin' at you, Lois.) But is vivacious, modern, ambitious military woman Lt. Diana Prince gonna sit back and take this? Why, yes. Yes, she is. Pretty much, yes.


But, in a rare moment when Diana isn't accidentally stabbing herself on the edge of her glasses, and in a common moment when Robert Kanigher is continuing to write sexist captions, Diana puts aside her plot for hidiously demeaning revenge and instead accepts a date from Steve. A date that tells her exactly how worthy she is in Steve's eyes...one hundred dollars, worth, in fact. (And that's in 1962 money!)


Now, if you had any doubt in your mind that Steve Trevor is a cold-hearted snake, just look into his eyes! He's been telling lies; he's a lover boy at play! He don't play by rules, so Diana, don't play the fool! (Also, don't dance with that cartoon cat...he's only in it for the cheezeburgers.)


Let's just skip all the in-between boring bits with a carnival and magic mirrors that show weird reflections of a person's personality and Wonder Woman acting like Bouncing Boy and a high-tech theft plotted by...heh heh heh...Angle Man...hee hee!...and just skip right to The Revenge of Diana, shall we?


Next issue: Lois Lane and Diana Prince: catfight! Or, so Kanigher promises us.