The U.S. District Judge that ruled in the ACLU's favor? He has the EXACT SAME NAME as DC Bronze Age writer Alan Gold.
Alan Gold, the guy that took over Wonder Woman right after Martin Pasko did his "Twelve Labors of Wonder Woman."
Actually, that was Len Wein.
No, wait...lemme try that again.
Alan Gold wasn't a Bronze Age writer, except in the most technical sense of the word, and he didn't take over WONDER WOMAN right after the "Twelve Labors."
Alan was a childhood friend of Marv Wolfman's, who was working in educational publishing before he was hired as an editor at DC Comics in 1984, and worked there a couple of years before going back to educational publishing. He edited WONDER WOMAN #309-329, as well as THE LEGEND OF WONDER WOMAN, RED TORNADO, 'MAZING MAN, SPANNER'S GALAXY and others.
His comics writing, if I remember correctly, was limited to a couple of dialogue jobs over other writers' plots when books were really late.
The "Twelve Labors of Wonder Woman" story ran in WW #212-222, and was written by Len Wein (see! See! He's always in there somewhere!), Cary Bates, Elliot Maggin and Marty. Nobody took the book over from Marty right afterward -- Marty wrote the last five chapters of the "Labors" storyline, and then stayed on the book, writing or co-writing nine of the next ten issues -- the exception was a fill-in by Elliot.
What you may be remembering was that Marty's last two issues on the book, #231-232, were written from a plot outline by Alan Brennert, who went on to do some much better comics (plus great TV and prose writing). After that, the series was written by Gerry Conway for a while.
Alan Gold didn't have anything to do with WONDER WOMAN until years later, though.
And, uh, is it really that odd that there are others out there named Alan Gold? Neither name is an uncommon one -- there's an Australian novelist named Alan Gold, a former Canadian Supreme Court justice, and plenty of others, I'm sure.
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