Not a hard-core comic book guy, so I don’t quite get why there are two new books about the breakthrough DC character — the 75th anniversary doesn’t come for another couple of years — but in thumbing through Jill Leopre’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Here’s part of the synopsis for “The Earl of Greed,” as per Wikipedia:
Charged with the capture of Wonder Woman first out of Mars’ lieutenants, Greed set in motion an elaborate plan that included inspiring Hitler to raid hidden gold hoards of the American treasury. He also inspired President Deacon of Holliday College to kill the school treasurer and steal school funds, imperilling the school’s future and making the treasurer suspect until Wonder Woman entered a charity baseball game. Plans to kill Wonder Woman at the game with an explosive baseball and to use Holliday College as a base of operations for stealing the American treasury and sending the gold to Mars were both foiled. The Earl of Greed’s spaceship was destroyed and he fled to Mars on a slave-ship, hoping to avoid the God of War. However he was seen and sent to the dungeons.
She revisited the diamond in issue #78:
I know baseball has been included in other superhero comic books (as opposed to those strictly about real-life baseball players). Maybe one day some enterprising nerd will do a serious article on it.
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