Wonder Woman #16 Big Apple pedigree (DC, 1946) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....
Auction amount: $10,157.50
Sold: Nov 15, 2008
Wonder Woman #16 Values
Publisher: DC, 1946
About Wonder Woman #16
First appearance of King Pluto. Cover and story art by H. G. Peter. Four-page feature on Marie Curie, written by Alice Marble and drawn by Alfonso Greene.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; King Pluto
Pencils: Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inks: Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; General Darnell; Etta Candy; the Holliday Girls [Lorrie; rest unnamed]; the Amazons; Queen Hippolyte; Aphrodite (goddess); Persephone (introduction, flashback); Dean Sourpuss; King Pluto (villain, mythological king of the underworld, introduction); Pluto's minions (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: After a Holliday girl is abducted by King Pluto, Wonder Woman and the Holliday girls travel to the furthest planet, where the king extracts their "color bodies" to light his gloomy planet and attempts to melt Wonder Woman like a color tablet.
Pages: 14.000
Script: Joye Murchison [as Charles Moulton] (credited)
Pencils: Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Inks: Harry Peter [as H. G. Peter] (signed)
Notes: Writer credit from The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lapore, 2014), also confirmed to Jerry Bails. According to Hippolyte, the River Styx is actually the stream of interplanetary ether between Earth and Pluto. Wonder Woman travels through space dragged behind a rocket ship, holding her breath; luckily, there's oxygen on Pluto.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Restored |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 103 |
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