Another, possibly more organized, blogger might've scheduled this post to actually fall on V-J Day, which I just realized probably sounds dirty phrased like that now. But it's a different day whether you're in the US or the UK, so I'm throwing this issue out there now! From 1978, Wonder Woman #242, "Tomorrow's Gods and Demons" Written by Jack C. Harris, pencils by Jose Delbo, inks by Joe Giella.
Maybe Victory Over Japan Day is a different date on Earth-2, where today's issue is set, at the end of World War II. Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor ponder their futures during the parade, then check in with supporting cast members General Blankenship and Etta Candy. Then Steve gets abducted by aliens. Because there wasn't a well handy for him to fall in, alright? Something was bound to happen to him, might as well be aliens. Unable to prevent the abduction, Wonder Woman heads to Paradise Island to try and find out more about them, and has a brief visit with her mom, Hippolyte, who does not seem real tore up that Steve was gone. "Sure, you 'love,' Steve; but we Amazons have other goals: peace, tranquility...not-Steve..." She very much acts like she can't wait for her little girl to put that fad behind her, but WW proclaims she wasn't done fighting evil in Man's world yet.
Meanwhile, you might think alien abduction of a national war hero might rain on the day's festivities: nope! Most seem to have convinced themselves it was an illusion, maybe the DTs. Or maybe no one cares...Still, Steve has been evolved by the alien Cerberons, into "the ultimate man who will end the age of death!" Fun fact: the more evolved you get in the DCU, the more utterly balls your fashion sense gets. Like if you reached the pinnacle of evolution, but had to dress like a colorblind Urkel or something. Steve's spreading that fashion don't around, too; as he turns more and more people into duplicates of himself, sharing a collective hivemind. Watching through the "Magic Sphere," Hippolyte is about to call Diana home, feeling mankind linking minds is a good thing; but Dr. Fate and the Spectre cut into her program to warn her not to.
Despite that set-up, Wonder Woman wraps this up pretty quickly, first by cutting off the Steves at 81, then by yelling at the alien ship that they were interfering with man's rightful future. It kind of feels like the aliens just decided "well, ok then" and quit; but I have to admit Captain Kirk's done that out-argue-logic thing about forty times, so why not. Wonder Woman tells the recovered Steve the world still needs, and would always need, a Wonder Woman; which might be a problem for their relationship but isn't delved into here. And on the last page, the Angle Man arrives...
If you think I've been too hard on Steve here...no, not even enough.
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