Another cover from my childhood - 1972, this time - that still resonates strongly with me all these years later. While I was too young and naive at the time to recognize a bondage cover when I saw one, I definitely empathized with the sheer terror that's shown on lovely Diana's face as she looks upward at that gleaming axe. This was one of the scariest comic scenes I'd encountered up to that point, largely because it was a DC mainstay - and member of the JLA! - being threatened, not some nameless victim in a horror comic. I'm not entirely sure Wonder Woman should ever look that helpless, but I can't deny the power of that image, then and now.
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