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Peter, finally decided to retire in 1958 after 18 years on the strip (sadly, Peter died soon after he retired).

He literally had the editor who was doing the book before he returned murdered by a maniac with a gun at the start of his first issue back).Īs I noted last time, Kanigher wasn't about to mess with a good thing, so he kept the Wonder Woman stories MOSTLY the same as what Marston and Hummel were doing throughout the rest of the 1940s and most of the 1950s (I think Kanigher's Wonder Woman wasn't quite as good as Marston/Hummel and Hummel, in particular, had a sort of sense of wonder that Kanigher did not), but then things changed when Wonder Woman's other co-creator, H.G.

Once Marston died, though, that setup was no longer viable, and so Kanigher (who was nominally the assistant editor on the series under Sheldon Mayer, but in practice, Kanigher was the real editor of the book) assigned the book to himself and he wrote it for the next 22 years, and he actually then RETURNED to the book after the famous revamp that took place in 1968 sort of fizzled out, so Kanigher was allowed to return and drop all of those revamped plots (which he did in the most aggressive way possible.

Hummel had taken over writing the character under Marston's name when Marston grew too ill to write it himself. He took over the character from Joye Hummel, who had been the assistant to Wonder Woman co-creator William Marston. RELATED: How Did Moon Knight Wield Thor's Hammer? HOW JUNE 19TH WAS BAD NEWS FOR WONDER WOMANĪs a quick recap from last time around, Robert Kanigher was a longtime DC writer and editor who had the longest stint as the writer of Wonder Woman of anyone who ever wrote the Amazin' Amazon.

wrote in to let me know that Kanigher had actually DONE that plot before, only it was June 19th the first time around! Okay, this is funny, since just yesterday, on June 18th, I did an article about how Robert Kanigher wrote an issue of Wonder Woman where Wonder Woman lost her powers on June 18th.