153 – The Seahorse Boys of Aquus 4

Hola! It’s time to take another look at the wonderful world of Silver Age Wonder Woman. But today we’re not looking at the comic itself, but at one of the many educational supplements used as filler. So you’ll just have to wait until another day for the rundown on that one story where Wonder Woman ate the world’s largest pizza for charity.

Like most comics of the day, Wonder Woman had its share of extra comics teaching us that music’s not just for sissies and that Superman doesn’t like it when you don’t place your bike properly in the bike rack, but it also had something unique – text-only pages with information about women’s history! Very progressive, eh? Well, let’s take a look at some of this important information. Today’s excerpts are all about

PRE-HISTORIC WOMEN

“From crude drawings found in caves and from the tools that have been found by archaeologists, it is possible to piece together some idea of how pre-historic women lived.”

Also they filled in some of blanks by consulting famed archaeologist Johnny Hart. So what do we know about prehistoric women?

“But often, when animals threatened, the men remained home, armed with their clubs and crude axes to drive off the early wolves and other beasts, while their wives huddled in a corner of the cave.”

They were wimps! Thanks for the heads up, science! We know this, of course, from examining the femurs of cro-magnon females, which tended to display striations associated with lifelong terrified huddling.

“It was about this that the women began complaining about the caves they had to live in. It was too cramped, and almost impossible to keep clean.”

And their husbands were always sneaking off behind the cave for a Winston break.