razzatazz's Wonder Woman #81 - The Dream Dooms! / Three Secret Wishes / The Vanishing Criminal review

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    Do not do what Diana doesn't not do

    This issue is of pretty poor quality.  In the first story Diana is seeing illusions sometimes and sometimes not so she is having a hard time determining what is a real threat and what not.  It turns out it is Duke Deception who is responsible.  It's not really important how Diana Diana stops him, the somewhat useless moral of the story is not to play practical jokes on people.  In the second story Diana happens across a wishing well and decides to make the wishes come true.  The first wish is the fulfillment of some woman's vanity to have a pearl necklace, the other two wishes involve first squeezing water out of rocks (????) and the second one is to rescue a guy who has been in a plane crash and hanging on behind a waterfall for presumably a long time.  In the third story Angle Man discovers that Wonder Woman will marry Steve and give up her career once there is no crime.  He orders all criminals to stop their activities and she does get married.  This is so far off of the concept of a strong role model for women that I have to see in a Wonder Woman comic as it is implied she should no longer have a job once married.  Overall this was just a big case of "what is going on here?"  What is worse is that the first story was later reprinted as one of the better ones of this era. 

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