Wonder Woman #164 is an issue of the series Wonder Woman (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1966. It was published on June 16, 1966.
Synopsis for "Wonder Woman -- Traitor!"
Shortly after Wonder Woman finds out that General Darnell is secretly in love with her, she learns that Steve Trevor has, in Darnell's words, "recklessly went out to test a new super rocket plane which killed a test pilot who took his place while he was recovering!" Steve also fails to return, and Wonder Woman's searching can reveal no trace of either him or his plane. Wonder Woman grieves, but Darnell consoles her, and she finally accepts a proposal of marriage from the general. However, she is unable to say the words "I do" at the ceremony, still thinking of Steve, and Darnell releases her from her engagement. The Amazon Princess rescues another pilot testing the rocket plane and takes his place, finding the craft captured by rays fired from a submarine. She battles frogmen from the submarine, but is finally overcome and finds herself encircled by her own magic lasso, now held by her enemy, the Angle Man. The villain forces her to retrieve the weapons that the U.S. uses against him for resale to criminals. Steve, a prisoner of the Angle Man, misunderstands the magic lasso's power over Wonder Woman and calls her a traitor. Finally, Steve gets so angry that he knocks down the Angle Man, causing the villain to lose his grip on the magic lasso. The Angle Man then jettisons Wonder Woman and Steve from the submarine and fires a torpedo at them, but Wonder Woman deflects it back into the submarine, sinking it. Wonder Woman gets herself and Steve to the surface, explains that the magic lasso compelled her to obey the Angle Man, and kisses him.
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- The series of "Golden Age Wonder Woman" stories that ran from Wonder Woman #159 to 165 (with a final story in Wonder Woman #168) are hard to place in mainstream DC Universe continuity. While done in a style consistent with Earth-Two, they do not fit into Earth-Two's continuity very well. Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium (2005) places these stories on Earth-Forty (with the Earth-Two Wonder Woman having similar adventures), while The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia (2010) places them on Earth-One. This means that all of these stories, with slight variations in each one of them, happened on all three Earths... and involved all three wonder Women.
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