Colouring Book Theater: Wonder Woman Faces the Menace of the Mole Men!

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Time to crack open another vintage colouring book and see the madness inside!

Wonder Woman faces the Menace of the Mole Men!

This book is from 1975 and is available in two sizes, in previous CBT segments I've reviewed the Batman and Shazam books in this series.

The first thing I want to point out is how much I love how angry Wonder Woman is on the cover, the male heroes are all smiling but not Diana!




So grab your crayons and check out this adventure after the jump!

This series is always really well-drawn and the thing that makes them unique is they are essentially comic books, complete with a detailed plot, word balloons and pages with panels. Essentially, it's the closest a kid could get to being a colourist.

I'm not really big on Wonder Woman history but she works for the United Nations under a guy named Morgan. People, namely women, start getting pulled down in earthquakes prompted Diana to turn into Wonder Woman.

She immediately goes to Paradise Island to recruit a scientist named Paula, we know she's a scientist because she's the only Amazon with glasses.

Her and Paula get captured almost immediately and meet Calla, head slave of the Mole people. The men are blind so they need the women to be their slaves and dig in their plot to take over the UN.

Wonder Woman spends a lot of time in chains, I guess that removes her powers. She even starts calling the Mole Men "Master" at some point. Although she does escape more than once.

While Paula and Calla organize a revolution, Wonder Woman is forced to dance for the Mole king. Eventually breaking free and kicking his ***.

Paula then operates on the Mole Men and gives them sight, all of a sudden, they're no longer evil. The Mole King hits on Calla,

Gonna chalk this one up to Stockholm syndrome here.

Diana goes back to her boss, who essentially did nothing. Wonder Woman comics are sometimes really weird.

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[sprytel]

"I will-- if you give up your plans for conquest!"

Women... once you get married, they always try to change you, amiright?

[PNGwynne]

Interesting art, including the closed tiara not seen since the '60s.

I loved in the comics when WW started doing her costume change with her lasso--her true identity revealed by it. So clever.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had this one as a kid. That image of Wonder Woman on the cover...I THINK it's Dick Giordano, and was originally created for a puzzle I believe, with WW running out of a bank vault at a group of armed robbers. So that's why she looks so hacked off, but they used it EVERYWHERE, and out of context, she looks pretty harsh.

I always liked the art on this one. The same artist drew a Superman coloring book from around this time too. I don't know who it is, but I can tell it's the same style.

Chris

[powersthatbe]

I had this coloring book too as a kid. another one I remember was a batman one that was surely based on the 66 show. his foe in it was...frogman!

[Mr.Marion]

I must have read this a couple dozen times at my great grandma's house. I never had any WW comics so it didn't feel off model to me at the time.

[J.B.]

I'm confused. Which one is John-Boy?

[ShadowAvenger]

My sister had the giant version of this one while I had the Batman in "Comedy of Tears" giant coloring book. Her copy got ruined by a busted pipe and had to be tossed. I still have my Batman one but it has seen better days (ripped and loose pages that were badly colored).

[powersthatbe]

I still have my empire strikes back coloring books(uncolored) that were made by Kenner. I probably have more somewhere(like gi joe). I used to get coloring books just so I could trace and draw from them.

[Megotastrophe]

The lack of a story is why I don't like modern coloring books. I see batman and jlu and wonder woman but it's just the figure drawings with borders and backgrounds and really awful puzzles. At the same time though none of them involve going to a circus planet so I guess it's a wash.