In this issue, Diana visits her mother at Paradise Island. Her mother tells her about the future of humanity, one that she saw in the device known as the magic sphere. Her and Diana watch humanity's future. In 1000 years women will rule the world, and not only that, but Diana and Etta Candy (her friend) will discover a vitamin that rejuvenates people and will allow humans to live for thousands of years at least, all because Etta´s mother was on her last days.
During this female future there´s some backlash from male reactionaries, particularly from senator Heeman, leader of the man´s world party, a misogynist who irrupts into the political scene with intentions to dethrone women and put men back in power.
Heeman is interesting because he insults women when they stop him from entering the president's office and considers all of the men who healthily interact with women (like Trevor) to be sissies of a decadent modern age.
He wants to make the president sign a pardon for a criminal, Grafton Patronage, a member of the men's world party who opposed the current president. He's obviously told to go away but he claims they will overthrow the president if she says no. In order to protect democracy Diana and Trevor are called in to take a look into the situation. Meanwhile, at the prison of the future, Grafton revolts against the guard (there´s no handcuffs or shackles in this future because of the negative effects they have on prisoners).
Diana is also captured but she escapes with her powers and faces the criminals. Grafton concocts a plan involving an airline car crashing into president Arda´s vehicle and blowing her up, but Diana (now fully dressed as Wonder Woman) uses her strength to stop the car and get rid of the explosives.
Back at the prison, the men are holding the president as a hostage, with female paratroopers surrounding them.
Etta and Wonder Woman modify the drinking water of the prison, dropping an antidote to the vitamin they discovered, which ends up reverting the criminals back to their natural age (a ghastly sight since they are thousands of years old). The effect is useless on Arda since she is only 35 years old.
The second story shows a very out of character Steve Trevor, he's being brainwashed into adopting 1950's style machismo. He was seduced by the new men´s party by Professor Manly and the purple shirts, who plan to rise up against women and arm themselves to create a revolution. A lot of allusions to fascism and conservatism in this issue.
A police officer tries to tell Diana who is behind the gun plot but she is killed right before, something that hasn't happened since men were in charge. Diana tries to accuse him but she isn't believed as Manly has a good position and reputation. An election is about to take place and Trevor runs against Diana. Our heroine speaks of equality, substantial policies and a good relation between men and women, while Trevor delivers vague populist speeches and his only real hook is his “beauty.”
When the votes come in, Diana is predictably the winner but Manly hatches a plan to interfere with the election and sends his purple shirts to destroy the votes for the women's party. Diana resigns her role as secretary because she will investigate Manly´s fraud, but Manly uses his power to get her jailed for accusing him.
Wonder Woman escapes her binding and rescues Trevor from his frozen entrapment, only to become frozen herself. Etta comes in and manages to unfreeze Wonder Woman and they arrest Manly. Soon after, Diana becomes president of the United States.
In the third story Paula visits Paradise Island and Wonder Woman shows her the future she witnessed with her mother in the previous stories. In this case, we are informed of a villainess named Andra Moteeva, a woman who incites men to rebel against the ruling women.
Wonder Woman and Trevor are captured by her troops. Andra is the kind of woman who prefers the company of men and wishes men to worship her alone as she despises other women and wants them to be treated like dogs. Wonder Woman escapes and warns the other girls of the danger. She also creates a ring that knocks out enemies in one go, which will come useful as the future women's civilization forbids killing.
Diana infiltrates the prisoners once more and makes the other girls surrender so they can enter the place easily. Right before they are about to be eaten by lions and tigers Wonder Woman orders her women to attack and they defeat the male army. Andra is captured and brought to justice.
In the fourth and final story we see a slightly older Gerta, Paula´s daughter, who went through amazon training and developed great strength. However, her bad behavior causes trouble as she won't listen to anyone but Wonder Woman. Diana and her mother then decide to take a look into the girl's future.
Turns out little Gerta will grow up to be a dangerous criminal and is stopped by Wonder Woman. Diana´s mother tells her that she must teach love and obedience to Gerta. A harvest festival is taking place and the Amazon children are having a diving contest, but Gerta becomes too competitive and dives in a dangerous area.
Wonder Woman attempts to save her but a giant octopus attacks her. Gerta wants to help Diana but she decides to listen to her mother and go back to the surface, making things easier for the heroine, who promptly gets rid of the creature.
Diana tells Paula to teach her obedience to save her daughter from a dire future.
This issue contains a lot of typical themes by Marston, such as female supremacy and submissiveness as a way for people to become less selfish and more willing to serve others, which are apparently ideal for a bright future. Totally recommended.
