Question: please tell me where Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman, Vol. 3 by Robert Kanigher epub ibooks

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Book description
Much like the first two volumes of Wonder Womans silver age adventures (borderline carbon copy of those actually), these early to mid 60s adventures of the female JLAer exhibit stunning artwork from Ross Andru but also plodding and repetitive non-suspense stories with no continuing plot lines and atrocious dialogue by Robert Kanigher.Most of the stories are instantly forgettable, in part because theyre always the same. Theres some giant formless monster, Wonder Woman has some inexplicable and sort of detached use of her powers to take it down, the end. And theres different monsters, some made of fire, some of ice, some being giants or goblins or whatever. Redundant, bland.And an insistent need for on the noise dialogue, no subtext, yet somehow talking more than modern comics. A very monotonous read.The only plus of all these problems is that the lame monster stories drag attention away from the misogynistic clinginess Wonder Woman/Wonder Girl have to deal with their boyfriends: Steve Trevor, Merman/Merboy, and Birdman/Birdboy. But there are some cringy moments of Wonder Woman flying over water and Merman grabbing her and refusing to let go, with some vague idea that she owes these men affection in the middle of saving the world. Its creepy and basically inhuman behavior that is best read quickly and ignored to get through this book.The thing they advertise on the back of the book, The Academy Of Arch-Villains. Clunky name aside, it was mildly interesting because its an alleged supergroup of villains, conspiring to capture WW. But in reality, it was a lot of dialogue and set-up, and only two villains are showcased. The Angle, who is called that because he always has an angle and a scheme, but rarely a memorable one.And the better villain, Mouse Man, who is a mouse sized villain (obvious, in hindsight), was more interesting. His ability to escape from prison due to his size and stuff. But like all these issues, Wonder Woman has a deus ex machina method to escape actual conflict with villains that ruins the opportunity, and Mouse Man was gone and forgotten. Not exactly buy this book material overall.Wonder Woman #138 typifies the random monster/resolution nature of the book. The entire Wonder Woman family: Wonder Woman, the solid but basically ignored in character development concerned mother Hippolyta and teenage Wonder Girl, and the goofy talks in baby talk/caveman talk baby Wonder Tot who basically is like she was in Vol. 2 with less funny dialogue. This gang gets to adventure together against a giant monster who is a mass of cold air/ice who changes shape. The monster moves and sort of tries to smash things. Thats basically its character traits, and probably lamer than it sounds.Wonder Woman #150, while maybe not the most ceremonious round number issue, probably deserved more than the PHANTOM FISHER BIRD. Its exactly what it sounds like for some reason. Its a big ugly bird (kind of like a vulture in the look of the head), and it likes to fish people with a giant hook (duh), and its transparent and can disappear at will. Definitely worse than #138, solely because that bird was so ugly.Wonder Woman #157 is the best issue of the book by far, which is more of a testament to how little needed to be done to win that title. Wonder Woman visits a comic book store and gets zapped inside an actual comic book into an old adventure against a pirate that steals peoples brains (AKA The Brain Pirate). Whats cool about it is that Ross Andru matched the sunday comics look of the old William Moulton Marston comics of the 40s,and theres a certain whimsical energy to it, a novelty to WWs jumping around in the era, not to mention a little (but only a little) self-referentiality because of her being trapped in a comic.But yeah, the actual writing sort of ignored mostly the opportunity to use the meta-template of the story, it sort of just meanders around with Wonder Womans ability to avoid real conflict with her powers like in every other issue. And while it fits the era, a rather unfortunate cameo by the Holiday Girls, a group of coeds who follow WW around. Namely, there are a bunch of awkward body shaming jokes because the fat Holiday Girl, subtly named Etta Candy, apparently eats too much candy. I mean, let her eat what she wants, why do you give a crap?So in summary, the art is good, theres some diverting stories in here, but fans who are not completists are probably advised to skip ahead a decade, this feels like primitive stone age in the writing.2/5
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