Etch A Sketch | toy: Etch A Sketch Action Pack| Batman and Wonder Woman

This Etch A Sketch Action Pack featured games, mazes, and races related to Batman and Wonder Woman. In the Gotham City maze, Batman needed to diffuse a bomb planted by The Joker. In Connect the dots, Wonder Woman needed to find her invisible plane.

Wonder Woman, an Amazon from an island of self-reliant women, debuted in All-Stars Comics No. 8 in 1941. With her golden bracelets, telepathic tiara, and magic lasso, Wonder Woman dodged bullets and roped confessions out of those caught in her snare. Appearing just as America entered World War II and feminists rallied, Wonder Woman courageously fought the Nazis, mastered martial arts, and joined the all-male Justice Society of America.

Batman, a fictional superhero, first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Richard A. Warshak, noted that the “opening lines of the first Batman comic strip set the tone for a contemporary myth that has endured: The ‘Bat-Man,’ a mysterious and adventurous figure fighting for righteousness and apprehending the wrong doer, in his lone battle against the evil forces of society ... his identity remains unknown.” Batman has remained a prominent figure in American popular culture for nearly 80 years.