Just as a side note, I now totally want to write the adventures of Forensic Pathologist Chimp...

"Oh, my God!! That Monkey has an electric saw!! And he's cutting up my little girl!! Stop him, somebody, for the love of God, STOP HIM!!"

"Take it easy, Mrs. Golterman. Your daughter Debbie is in the finest possible hands. And feet. If anyone can find who killed her, it's that chimp in there..."

Of course, as Will Elder reminds us in the first two panels of this page, there was a perfectly valid reason (Yuh!  Yuh!) for that

INVISO TEXT (Click or highlight to reveal): invisible

plane

I wonder if Tori Black changes outfits in her plane... Hmmm...

Here are a couple of shots of Lynda Carter flying her plane from the TV series...

Moulton's text switches back and forth between the phrases "silent transparent plane" and "silent invisible plane" in the issues of the comic that I can find. He also uses "voice-controlled" and "thought-controlled" interchangeably.He describes the plane as travelling 2000 miles per hour in one early issue.

In the origin story written for the robot plane in 1955, a few years after Moulton/ Marston's death, it is described as "... a means of locomotion so swift-- it will enable you to circle the globe in moments-- or flash through space at unheard of speeds!" Also, "... Silent-- Transparent-- Incredibly swift! A robot plane waiting to respond only to the voice of the person daring enough to win it! No one ever has!"

Following her mother's instructions, Wonder Woman finds the plane in three different sections, one under the ocean hidden in the petals of a giant carnivorous flower, the second high in a tree protected by a powerful electric current, and the third inside an active volcano. The Queen's instructions led her only to the first section. That first part had "something printed on" it.

The story truly raises far more questions than it answers. Who built the plane? Why was it then divided into three parts and placed in different parts of the world? As a challenge to assure that only the most worthy individual would fly it, perhaps? Fine, but then how long was it sitting unused? How did Hippolyte come by the written instructions to find the first section? Most importantly... How did Wonder Woman read something printed on the outside of an invisible plane??

All of this contradicts the few clues Moulton gave to the origin of the plane in Sensation Comics No. 8, wherein he states that Amazon technology is superior to that found in Man's World. "Our weapons are better- Our flying machines are further advanced!" I'm certain there were multiple origin tales for the plane written over the years, just as there were for her earrings, tiara, and costume. Still, it's a fun adventure... Nonsensical, but fun.

Ah, so the plane's origin may in fact be Scottish... James Doohan used to say the Scots had a wonderful tradition of engineering... :-)