When, Mr. V, a patron of this blog, suggested this team up, I had to look up Black Fury - then I saw the connection. He was known as The Wonder Horse, a wild stallion that traveled around and got into adventures. Sounds like a fun idea for a series. Thanks, Mr. V!
"When you hear the sound of thunder, but there is no sign of rain,
ReplyDeleteThen you know it must be Champion, galloping across the plain;
Champion, the wonder horse!"
(That was a different one, though, I think. Gene Aughtry's horse, going on solo adventures?)
Oops! In the above post, I should have said 'Autry' rather than 'Aughtry'.
ReplyDeletePossible team-up Gene Autry (who did have a comic-book of his own, back in the day, after all) & his 'wonder horse', with this horse/rider combo?
_________________________________
And has Wonder Woman ever met Wonder Warthog? ;)
Darn! :-(
ReplyDeleteFor a second, I thought WW was going to meet Ms. Fury*
*Nee Marla Drake, the public domain Golden Ager originally known as "Black Fury," for her panther-skin costume?
@Carycomic: maybe Ross can do that as a sequel.
ReplyDelete*Hint-hint!*
Ah the Wonder of it all. Next, Wonder Dog.
ReplyDeleteHe's not Comet, but then they can team up later. For now I " herd" enough. No more horsing around.
I wonder if he's a sub-adult hawkhorse?*
ReplyDelete*See Adventure Comics (vol.1) #425.
Dog Wonder Awaaaaaayyyyy.
ReplyDeleteMe too (expecting Ms Fury). That's a problem, being saddled with expectations. Glad it doesn't rein in your creativity, Ross.
ReplyDeleteOn the surface, this pairing should be only slightly intriguing at best, but somehow the way it's done really resonates. Nice job here, Ross.
ReplyDeleteFor a while I've been noting how Wonder Woman (like most DC heroes) has been subject to cross-gender portrayals in not just comics but also fan art and cosplay, but I have yet to see Marvel's Wonder Man get the same (except for a single panel in What If...? Vol. 1 #34), even in fan art. It's a pity; that combo of Wonder Man and Wonder Woman would be loads of fun!
Fury was also the name of the original Wonder Woman's daughter in Infinity Inc., no?
ReplyDelete@Bob Buethe: Correct. Later retconned into being the daughter of the World War II Greek heroine Fury of the Young All-Stars, who was Roy Thomas' "replacement" for Wonder Woman after the first Crisis left the DCU with a single universe where Perez's WW was just entering Man's World.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if either of them made it through Flashpoint, New 52, Rebirth, or Dark/Death Metal.
Bob Buethe said...
ReplyDelete"Fury was also the name of the original Wonder Woman's daughter in Infinity Inc., no?"
Yes, although post-Crisis that had been changed because the original Wonder Woman was no longer a part of continuity. (She & her husband Steve Trevor were allowed to retire to the slopes of Mt Olympus, however, instead of just being erased completely... and she eventually made a brief return, to advise the modern Diana, during 'Infinite Crisis'...)
In the altered timeline that Fury's mother had now been a WW2-era superheroine, also called Fury and invented OOC -- like the younger one -- by Roy Thomas: She made her debut in 'Young All-stars', left her daughter (for reasons that I don't know...) to be raised by an Admiral Derek Trevor & his wife Joan (the former -- & much later -- superheroine 'Miss America') instead, and IIRC was killed -- helping to defend Paradise Island against OMACs-- during Infinite Crisis.
The younger daughter became pregnant by her boyfriend & subsequently husband Hector Hall (son of the Golden Age Hawkman & Hawkgirl; member of Infinity Inc under the codename of 'Silver Scarab; killed; somehow acquired the body formerly belonging to the Silver Age version of 'The Sandman', and took up the latter's duties in the Dreaming; killed again, by Morpheus shortly after his return from captivity on Earth; subsequently reborn, in the body of a baby whose parents had been Dove [II] & {Hawk [I] = Monarch}, and became the new Dr Fate; eventually killed off for good, along with his wife, by demons in a hell after the couple had been sent there by the then-villainous Spectre, but with their souls give sanctuary in the Dreamland...)
Their child, born in the Dreaming, was 'Daniel' who replaced Morpheus as Lord there at some point between his father's second death & that final incident: He was the one who gave his parents that route out of the hell.
Post-Flashpoint, there was only a different 'Earth-2' with a similar-but-different set of "wonders" [I.E. super-heroes]. It had a 'Fury' who was the daughter of Wonder Woman and the Apokalyptian general Steppenwulf, who ended up as a heroine (and Queen of the Amazons) but had also fought for Apokalyps during part of the earlier storyline.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this horse could be another anti-Superman drone? Because, it looks like he's wearing red-k lipstick!
ReplyDeleteI guess you CAN call these the " Wonder years". Wonder-ful. Just Wonder-ful.
ReplyDeleteDiana on a special horse? Call it "Home on the Reins".
With Randy Newman singing "She Was Only A Blacksmith's Daughter. But, All The Horsemen Knew Her."
ReplyDelete