Nobody but Wanda Wilson knows that Terry Sloan is Mister Terrific, and she's keeping it a secret! 
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Sensation Comics #8 is an issue of the series Sensation Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1942.
Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "Department Store Perfidy"
At the Bullfinch Department Store, girl employees are routinely mistreated, and management has no interest in correcting the problem. Diana Prince finds out about it, confronts the manager, Mr. Googins, then confronts the owner, Gloria Bullfinch. Neither one of them is very helpful, so Wonder Woman uses her mind-controlling lariat to compel Gloria to go to work at the store.
Googins meanwhile is in cahoots with a robber, Guigi Del Slimo. They steal a pile of money out of the company safe, then attempt to blow up the store, to cover their tracks. Del Slimo's hoods go after that troublemaking Miss Prince, and they catch a break; one manages to get up behind and cosh her. They bind and gag her, stuff her in a trunk, and carry her away. She's taken to a place where Steve Trevor, also captured, is stuck inside a safe, with a bomb. Wonder Woman breaks her own bonds, disables the bomb, breaks open the safe, and captures Del Slimo.
During all this, Gloria has seen the store's terrible working conditions, and has the manager arrested. She then implements new policies, to treat the employees more fairly.
Appearing in Wonder Woman: "Department Store Perfidy"
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Antagonists:
- Mr. Googins (Single appearance)
- Guigi Del Slimo (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Beth (Single appearance)
- Helen Jones (Single appearance)
- Molly (Single appearance)
- Gloria Bullfinch (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Washington, D.C.
- Bullfinch Department Store
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Synopsis for Black Pirate: "Spanish Armada"
Appearing in Black Pirate: "Spanish Armada"
Supporting Characters:
- Donna Bonita
- Justin Valor
- Black Pirate's crew
- Pedro, servant
Antagonists:
- Governor Lopez
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Vehicles:
- Spanish Armada, 130 warships
Synopsis for Mister Terrific: "The Crooked Carnival"
Terry Sloan and Wanda Wilson visit a carnival and discover that the games are rigged. Later that day, after taking Wanda home, Terry changes clothes and returns to the carny as Mr. Terrific. While scoping out the carnival, he witnesses two muggers jumping a guy, and intervenes. After a short beating, the muggers run away, and tell their boss about getting ambushed by six or eight guys in funny uniforms. Meanwhile Terrific discovers that there's gambling going on, and that the "muggers" are on the carny payroll, and also sees them get issued some pistols by their boss. He leaves, then returns, with a white overcoat added to his costume and mask, and takes a seat in the gambling tent. Being expert at card tricks and sleight of hand, Mr. Terrific quickly wins up all the money in the room, then volunteers to show the gang how he did it, then does so, razzing them the whole time. The bad guys chase him but Terrific climbs up to a high-diving platform, faster than they can, and then dives into the tank, and the gangsters don't follow that move. Then he goes back to the shooting gallery and the ring toss games, at which Terry Sloan lost earlier, and easily wins at them, because now he's not holding back. In the process he wins a ton of prizes which he immediately hands out to some random children. The boss and his carnies rally and attack Terrific, but he beats up a few more of them, and they're soon driven out of town.
Appearing in Mister Terrific: "The Crooked Carnival"
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- corrupt carnival managers
- and their roustabouts
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Synopsis for O'Malley: "Murder at the Movies"
Appearing in O'Malley: "Murder at the Movies"
Featured Characters:
- O'Malley
Synopsis for Gay Ghost: "Flight of the Vultures"
Appearing in Gay Ghost: "Flight of the Vultures"
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Supporting Characters:
- Lt. Charles Collins (Appears only as a corpse)
- Deborah Wallace
- the late Charles Collins (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- Blackie Stover
- The Vultures
- The Vultures
Synopsis for Little Boy Blue: "Reggie, the Mystery Kid"
Appearing in Little Boy Blue: "Reggie, the Mystery Kid"
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Other Characters:
- Reggie, the Mystery Kid
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Synopsis for Wildcat: "Smokey Joe's Last Fire"
Appearing in Wildcat: "Smokey Joe's Last Fire"
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Other Characters:
- Smokey Joe
Notes
- Published by J.R. Publishing Company
- Wonder Woman: Department Store Perfidy is reprinted in Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 1.
- Wonder Woman gets head-konked unconscious, for the first time.
- She also has no problem getting free from ropes tied by men, which had long been depicted as her weakness.
- Last issue for Hal Sharp art on Mister Terrific, replaced next month by Chuck Winter.
- Gay Ghost: "The Outland Pirates" is reprinted in World's Finest #212.
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