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Star Weekly , September 15, 1968. By 1968, Wonder Woman was long overdue for a major revamp. Over the decades since her introduction in  1941, the edginess that marked her early years (especially the kinkiness slipped in by creator William Moulton Marston ) had been watered down. Her rogues gallery was nothing to write home about, from boring baddies like Angle Man to the bizarre, not-at-all-racist Egg Fu . An attempt to revive the character's 1940s look had faltered. Her dowdy alter-ego, military secretary Diana Prince, just wouldn't do in a Vietnam world. Cue makeover. Writer Denny O'Neil and artist Mike Sekowsky shook up Wonder Woman's world with a series of changes that transformed her from a star-spangled heroine into an Emma Peel-inspired protagonist: Dumped the costume in favour of mod clothing, which evolved into various white-coloured outfits by the early 1970s Killed off useless love interest Steve Trevor, replacing him with a blind Asian mentor n...

A meeting of titans, both facing crossroads in their lengthy careers. Jerry Lewis's movie career petered out as the 1970s dawned. Apart from the infamously unreleased concentration camp drama The Day The Clown Cried (1972), Lewis did not star in any movies for a decade between Which Way to the Front? (1970) and Hardly Working (1980). This, along with declining sales of humour comics in general, may have played a part in the end of his 20-year run as a comic book headliner in 1971. The latter part of the run played Jerry off against his nephew Renfrew, with the occasional cameo from DC Comics' stable of superheroes. As for Jerry's co-star, Wonder Woman was in the middle of her "Emma Peel" era . Changes to the character in 1968 eliminated her powers, costume and romantic interest. Out with invisible planes, star-spangled shorts and Steve Trevor , in with butt-kicking, pseudo-trendy outfits and a midget retainer named I Ching . Any boost from these changes f...