Wonder Woman #196 is an issue of the series Wonder Woman (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1971.
Synopsis for "Target for Today?"
A man dying of gunshot wounds stumbles into Diana's boutique, reveals that he is a secret agent for a government agency headed by General Stuart, for whom I-Ching also once worked, and tells her that Stuart must learn of an assassination planned on the Koronian ambassador. Then he dies. After Diana and Ching defeat two killers seeking the dead agent, Ching goes to Washington to contact Gen. Stuart, and Diana goes to Kennedy Airport, where she stops another apparent assassination attempt on Anatole Karoli, the ambassador from Koronia. Karoli insists on taking Diana out, and begins romancing her, during which time she foils more attempts on his life. Later, Gen. Stuart and I-Ching meet with Diana. The general tells Diana that she is still in the Army Reserve, even though she has resigned her commission, and he reappoints her lieutenant with the task of keeping Karoli safe from assassination. Diana goes to Washington, D. C. with Karoli and saves him from still more apparent murder attempts. But, just after Karoli shakes hands with President Nixon, Diana knocks Karoli down, kicks a pistol he had been packing away from him, and knocks him unconscious. She removes a mask from "Karoli"'s face, explaining to the president that she saw the bottom of the mask poking out from under his collar. The "assassination attempts" were really fakes, and the "ambassador" was really an assassin seeking the president's life. Later, the president tells Diana and Gen. Stuart that the killer was an agent of the party out of power in the Koronian government, and their plan was to make it appear that one of the opposition had been guilty of the assassination of the president.
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- I-Ching
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- Baron Anatole Karoli
- Kolmar
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Synopsis for "Introducing Wonder Woman"
This story is reprinted from All-Star Comics #8.
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Synopsis for "The Stormy Menace of Goblin Head Rock"
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Notes
- Beginning with this issue the cover price and format of the series changes. The cover raises from 15 cents per copy to 25 cents per copy and the page count is increased to 52-pages per issue (padded with reprinted stories).
- Final Mike Sekowsky issue.
- "Introducing Wonder Woman" was originally printed in All-Star Comics #8; reprints the 1st appearance of the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
- "The Stormy Menace of Goblin Head Rock" is a previously unpublished Golden Age story.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Wonder Woman Recommended Reading
- All-Star Comics (Volume 1)
- Comic Cavalcade (Volume 1)
- JLA (Volume 1)
- Sensation Comics (Volume 1)
- Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- Superman/Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- The Legend of Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- The Legend of Wonder Woman (Volume 2)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 2)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 3)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 4)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 5)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 6)