Sensation Comics #18

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Wonder Woman: "The Secret City of the Incas"

Steve Trevor) flies to California to receive intelligence information about Japanese activity in South America. However Captain West, Steve's contact, is murdered before he can relay the information. The assassin captures Steve, taking him and the Holliday Girls) as prisoners.

Worried over Steve's disappearance, Wonder Woman) flies west to find him. Etta Candy mentally contacts Diana, alerting her to a secret Inca City in South America where they are being held.

Arriving in the city, Wonder Woman rescues an Inca girl from becoming a human sacrifice. The girl, introduces herself as Cura, marvel's at Wonder Woman's immunity to fire, and super human strength, but expresses disapproval with the stranger interrupting the sacrifice of Cura's life. That is until the observers who were in the process of kill Cura state that they believe Wonder Woman to be a savior sent by the sun god. At this, Cura becomes devoted to Wonder Woman, as does her father, Ayar Manco. He is not the legendary ruler Ayar Manco, but a man named Manco, with Ayar having become the title of rulers of the secret Inca city, and until recently could produce no evidence to suggest Quito was lying about the sun god demanding Cura be burnt to death because of the Inca's sins.

High priest Quito arrives from a secret passageway and berates Manco for venerating Wonder Woman, who he insists was not sent by gods. The other Inca are skeptical, so Quito proves Wonder Woman's lack of divinity by trying to stab her, then dropping down a trap door when the knife does not work. Quito has Wonder Woman imprisoned with Cura, who explains that even though she is the Ayar's daughter, the position is chosen on merit. Cura is as skilled as anyone else in the city and stronger than everyone else, including the men, after all of her brothers were killed, so she's basically guaranteed to succeed Manco. Quito wants to kill off Cura, so that he can be in charge, and though Cura hates him, she is a devout servant of the sun god Quito is high priest of, as is Manco. Wonder Woman's arrival gave them a way out, but Quito is not being denied so easily.

When Quito's lesser priests try to execute Wonder Woman, she breaks free, rescues Steve and the Holliday Girls, reveals Quito's plan of conspiring with the Japanese, and "reinforces" her status as divinely gifted by once again proving immune to fire. Cura confronts Quito, forcing him into a duel. Defeated by Cura, Quito hurls himself to his death. With Quito dead, there is no one left to challenge Cura's status as Manco's successor and the effective Sapa Inca, given the secret city is also the last Inca city. She expresses her desire to put an end to human sacrifice, based on the observation Wonder Woman disapproves of it. Wonder Woman and her friends leave the city in peace. | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** *Wonder Woman) **Supporting Characters:** *Major Steve Trevor) *Colonel Phil Darnell) *Etta Candy) *Holliday Girls) ** Brenda) **Antagonists:** * Senor Quito * Imperial Japan **Other Characters:** * Captain Thomas "Tommy" West, Army Intelligence * Arios Hardik, famous archaeologist **Locations:** *Los Angeles, California *Washington, D.C. *South America ** Andes *** Four-Peak Mountain **** Secret Inca Stronghold **** Paccari-Tampu Temple, built of solid gold **Items:** *Bracelets of Submission *Lasso of Truth *Wonder Woman's Tiara **Vehicles:** * Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane * Quito's yacht, "Lima"

| Penciler2_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | Inker2_1 = Sheldon Moldoff | StoryTitle2 = Black Pirate: "The Man Who Hated London" | Synopsis2 = King James recruits the Black Pirate and Son to combat a plague of highwaymen who are making London's roads unusable. A corrupt nobleman, Lord Tolliver, turns out to be behind the crime wave, and is arrested. | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Black Pirate) **Supporting Characters:** * Justin Valor) **Antagonists:** * Lord Tolliver ** his gang of highwaymen **Other Characters:** * James II of England|King James **Locations:** * 17th Century ** London area, *** Red Arrow Inn *** Buckingham Palace ** Pirate Island **Items:** * Oil of vitriol

| Writer3_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler3_1 = Howard Purcell | Inker3_1 = Howard Purcell | StoryTitle3 = The Gay Ghost: "Sugo, Yakita, and Shimaka" | Synopsis3 = At night, three Japanese saboteurs are parachute-dropped near a U.S. city, assigned to destroy an experimental fighter-bomber. They encounter resistance, and hide in the city, in a museum, where by luck they meet up with a Nazi saboteur, working as a night watchman. They team up.

The next morning, at the city's airport, Lt. Charles Collins) is assigned to make the test flight in the experimental plane. The Axis sabotage team uses trickery to get close to the plane, and the disguised German agent whacks Collins in the head with a rifle butt. They are surprised to find him dead rather than knocked out, but Charles Collins has actually been dead for months, and the Gay Ghost invisibly separates himself from the body, and scans the situation. The agents try to remote-detonate one of the fighter-bomber's bombs; the Gay Ghost adopts the bomb as his new body, and flies it to their hiding place, then chases them around the airfield. When he explodes it, the German agent is killed. The Gay Ghost invisibly follows the Japanese agents panicky sprint to their museum hideout, and has some fun scaring them by animating a mummy, then a statue, then a dinosaur skeleton, and chasing them around the museum. He leaves them with the police, then returns to the airfield, where a medic is examining Charles Collins' body, and pronouncing it dead. Everyone is very surprised when Collins gets back up, to make that day's test flight after all. | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Gay Ghost) **Supporting Characters:** * Lt. Charles Collins) * Collins' C.O. **Antagonists:** * Imperial Japan ** Sugo ** Yakita ** Shimaka * N-44, Nazi Secret Police **Locations:** * Secret Island Hideaway * U.S. city ** military airfield **Vehicles:** * U.S. experimental fighter/bomber (bright red)

| Writer4_1 = Ted Udall | Penciler4_1 = Harold Wilson Sharp | Inker4_1 = Harold Wilson Sharp | StoryTitle4 = Mr. Terrific: "The Case of the Radio Robbers" | Synopsis4 = Skinny McSlugg proposes that Mister Terrific) appear on a radio program to sell war bonds. While Mr. Terrific is on the air, Skinny's gang commits robberies around the city. This goes on for several days. Discovering their Scheme, Mr. Terrific has impersonators appear on the radio program, while he tracks down the gang. Foiling their crimes, Terrific returns to the radio station to apprehend Skinny and reveal his ruse. | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Mister Terrific) **Supporting Characters:** * Wanda Wilson) **Antagonists:** * Skinny McSlugg ** his gang **Other Characters:** * Ivanovitch Bozochki, violinist, as Mr. Terrific * Harry Magee, heavyweight contender, as Mr. Terrific * United Electric's Scientific Expert, as Mr. Terrific **Locations:** * New York City ** WMCG's Radio Amphitheater ** Barnum Silk Factory **Vehicles:** * Terrific's Autogiro

| Penciler5_1 = Frank Harry | Inker5_1 = Frank Harry | StoryTitle5 = Little Boy Blue: "Crime Is Made Not Born!" | Synopsis5 = In their civilian identities, the Blue Boys encounter a homeless petty thief named Butch, who saves Tommy from getting hit by a truck. Mr. & Mrs. Rogers put up Butch in their home, but he decides to run away. But instead he gets grabbed into an alley by his brother, Trigger Tony, an escaped felon, intent on murdering D.A. Rogers. He's brought his gang along. Tony drags Butch to the Rogers' house, and invades it. Dan Rogers isn't home, so they threaten Mrs. Rogers and wait for the D.A.'s return. Tommy changes clothes, slips out the back door,. and blows his horn, summoning the Blue Boys. They jump into Tommy's living room thru an open window and duke it out with the armed thugs. In the struggle Trigger Tony head-konks his brother Butch unconscious, but the Blue Boys prevail; Tony and his pals are punched into unconsciousness, and Butch is hospitalized. There he is visited by Tommy and Tubby and Toughie, whom he tells of his new resolution to be more like Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys) ** Tommy) ** Toughy) ** Tubby) **Supporting Characters:** * J.J. "Dan" Rogers, District Attorney **Antagonists:** * Trigger Tony ** his gang **Other Characters:** * Butch, Tony's brother **Locations:** * Big City

| Writer6_1 = Bill Finger | Penciler6_1 = Irwin Hasen | Inker6_1 = Irwin Hasen | StoryTitle6 = Wildcat: "Second Chance" | Synopsis6 = | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Wildcat) **Supporting Characters:** * Stretch Skinner) **Antagonists:** * Second Chance) ** at least three hench: Nick, others **Other Characters:** * John Winthrop **Locations:** * Skinner's Detective Office **Vehicles:** * Second Chance's Autogyro

| Notes = * The **Black Pirate** is active in the 17th Century, in this story, and his liege is James II of England|King James. Given that the initial stories of the Pirate had him being active during the reign of Philip II) (1556-1598), and the reign of James II was between 1685 and 1688, the stories were simply transported without explanation to the 17th century. * The **Gay Ghost** can enter any solid body which isn't utterly evil, including bombs, which qualify because of the purpose for which they were manufactured. * **Wildcat** punches out Stretch Skinner, who later head-konks Ted Grant unconscious, with a lamp. Stretch then gets head-konked unconscious, with a dropped wrench. * **Wonder Woman** is fluent in the Ancient Inca language. ** *The Secret City of the Incas* is reprinted in *Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 3 (Collected)*. ** At this story's end, that hidden city and its solid gold temple are intact. Its location is known to U.S.Army Intelligence, Wonder Woman, and the Holliday Girls. * Also appearing in this issue of *Sensation Comics* was: ** Hal Mason "The Clover Club Mystery, Part 1" (text story) by Evelyn Gaines | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: William Moulton Marston, Ted Udall, Ted Udall, Bill Finger

Interior art: Frank Godwin, Sheldon Moldoff, Howard Purcell, Harold Wilson Sharp, Frank Harry, Irwin Hasen

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