Wonder Woman #101 for Sale - First Appearance of The Time Master - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series)
Issue: #101
Publication date: October 1958
Key date: 1958-10-00
On-sale date: 1958-08-07
Indicia publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Time Master - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Undersea Trap!	cover	1	pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito; colors: Jack Adler; letters: Ira Schnapp	Princess Diana, Wonder Woman
2	Undersea Trap!	comic story	9.67	script: Charles Moulton; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Princess Diana, Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman, Phillip Darnell
4	Do You Know the Legend of Superman?	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
5	Lost -- A Free Education!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Bob Oksner; inks: Bob Oksner; letters: Ira Schnapp
6	Romantic Dreams	cartoon	0.5	script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tom Nicolosi
8	Fun House of Time!	comic story	7.67	script: Charles Moulton; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Princess Diana, The Time Master First, Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman
10	Samson in Skirts	text article	1	script: Julius Schwartz
11	Marriage a la Mode	cartoon	1	script: Julius Schwartz; pencils: Morris Waldinger; inks: Tom Nicolosi
12	The Fun House of Time! Part Two	comic story	6.67	script: Charles Moulton; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Mike Esposito; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Princess Diana, Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman, The Time Master First

Plus 6.49 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Wonder Woman #217	1975	On eBay ›
Four Star Spectacular #3	1976	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-1373-2	2007	On eBay ›
Wonder Woman: The Amazon Princess Archives #1 ISBN 9781401238650	2013	On eBay ›
Wonder Woman in the Fifties #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-762-4	2021	On eBay ›
Wonder Woman: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-1-77951-336-6	2022	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #100101 of 329#102 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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