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Wonder Woman (Earth-Two)
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Wonder Woman of Earth-Two
is a fictional DC Comics
superheroine retcon
ned from original stories created by Wonder Woman writer/creator William Moulton Marston
and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston
. This "version" of Wonder Woman is attributed to have first appeared in All Star Comics
#8 (Dec. 1941). This was after DC Comics established a multiverse
within their published stories to explain how heroes could have been active before and during the World War II
era and still retain their youth and subsequent origins in the 1960s.
The Earth-Two Wonder Woman is first featured as a specific separate character from the then mainstream Wonder Woman (referred to as the "Earth-One Wonder Woman") in the second Jay Garrick and Barry Allen team-up. Technically the Earth-Two Wonder Woman had appeared several months earlier cameoed in a single comic book panel.
Like most of the elder Earth-Two incarnations of the DC characters, this version of Wonder Woman was semi-retired from costumed exploits by the time she reappears in later stories indicating her age. She was shown to be aging with gray hair and wrinkles when she is featured in later Justice League stories.
She continued to appear in many later Earth-Two specific features including the multi-generational "Infinity, Inc." series, where her daughter Fury
is featured.
She and her version of Earth were eliminated in a company wide storyline titled Crisis on Infinite Earths
. After this series ended she ascended to her world's Mount Olympus
with her husband General Steve Trevor and attained godhood. Although Diana Trevor was eliminated from history due to the storyline's outcome, her daughter was not. Fury, or Lyta Trevor, was later explained to be the child of the New Earth history World War II Fury—Helena Kosmatos
.
The Earth-Two Diana Trevor reappeared in mainstream DC Earth during a later storyline titled Infinite Crisis
, but only as a ghost apparition. She later faded from existence after speaking to her newest counterpart Wonder Woman.
At a still later period another storyline was created titled 52
. In the aftermath of this storyline an alternate reboot version of the Pre-Crisis Earth-Two characters are reintroduced. These characters are separate from their Pre-Crisis Earth-Two versions though bear some resemblances to the Pre Crisis Earth-Two version. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is mentioned by her daughter Fury though does not appear except for a reference picture taken before the death of Bruce Wayne and disappearance of their Superman. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is formally retired from her Earth's Justice Society team and is suggested to be the current Queen of the Amazons, which never happened to the Earth-Two Diana Trevor before she ascended to Mount Olympus to become a goddess with her husband.
— the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two—served as a member of the All-Star Squadron
and soon after became secretary (later full-fledged member) of the Justice Society of America
. As Diana Prince, she worked in the U.S. War Department
as an assistant to intelligence officer Steve Trevor
. Decades later, she and Trevor were married and had a daughter named Lyta (also known as Fury
). Although Diana was retcon
ned out of existence by the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths
and All-Star Squadron #60, she was later restored into present continuity
.
was born on the mystical Paradise Island
several hundred years before she became known to the outside as Wonder Woman. Isolated from the cruelty and corruption of men and their ways, the Amazons
lived in peace and advancement openly working with and obeying the will of the Olympian gods. Longing for a child of her own, Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons, begged for the gods to grant her request and turn her perfect clay statue into a real girl. Sympathetic to Hippolyta's request, the gods relented and animated the statue with true life and the girl immediately leaped off the pedestal and into her mother's arms. She named it after Diana, goddess of the Moon, who became her godmother.
Pleased with the child, Hippolyta began to raise her daughter as an Amazon with all the station and privilege of her mother's royalty. Diana would age slowly and stop aging altogether upon reaching her adulthood as with all of the Amazons. Diana would continue to excel surpassing most of her Amazon sisters in her skills and intelligence, she could run faster than a deer at the age of five, and uproot a tree easily at the age of three.
Diana would continue to perform as a contented Amazon until the fated day when Captain Steve Trevor
crash landed on Paradise Island. Never having seen a true man before Diana was immediately attracted to the handsome man despite his extensive injuries. Violating the Island rules about taking in outsiders, Diana took the unconscious Trevor back to the Amazons in an attempt to save his life. Pleading with her mother to save the man, Hippolyte relented and used the life healing Purple Ray
on Trevor saving his life by bringing him back from death.
Discovering the outside world was engaged in full world wide war, Diana wanted to participate and help stop the war. Hippolyta refused stating that she and the others should not get involved in the ways of the outsiders. But when the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena appeared to Hippolyta and declared that it was time for an Amazon to travel to "Man's World" and fight the evil of the Nazis as Ares felt he ruled the world, which was all at war, and Aphrodite wanted to help America win, claiming it was the 'last citadel of democracy' (this is actually inaccurate, as the UK was still free). A tournament was held to determine who would be the Amazon champion. Although forbidden by Hippolyta to participate in the tournament, Princess Diana did so nevertheless, concealing her identity with a mask. Upon winning all the rounds Diana revealed her identity to her heartbroken mother who feared that she would never see her daughter again.
After winning the tournament and revealing her true identity, Queen Hippolyta relented and allowed her daughter to wear the costume of Wonder Woman and travel to the outside world. Diana returned Steve Trevor to the United States
and adopted the identity of a Navy
nurse named Diana Prince so she could be close to Trevor as he recovered from his injuries. She assisted him against a Japanese agent.
Now, Princess Diana began to operate as Wonder Woman publicly and as a glasses wearing Diana Prince, forged papers allowed her to become the recently promoted Major Trevor's and Col. Darnell's confidential assistant. Later the real Diana Prince returned and tried to take Diana's role as her inventor husband was having financial trouble selling his new weapon to the army. Wonder Woman saves Diana when she is kidnapped by a Japanese agent who tries to get the weapon, and after her husband's weapon is shown to work Diana Prince starts using her married name, leaving Wonder Woman to remain in her identity.
She would continue in this position fighting crime alongside the Justice Society of America
(on Earth-Two) as their first female member though she would be regulated to subservient duties performing as an actual secretary for the Justice Society despite her beyond human strength and abilities, as the JSA had somehow discovered her identity, which Hawkman
revealed to her. She was shown taking dictation and typing the teams minutes as costumed Wonder Woman. Diana would rejoin the team when it reformed as the All-Star Squadron
and expanded.
Diana would continue to perform as an open crime fighter after World War Two and resisted being recalled home to Paradise Island after the war, preferring to give up her immortality
than leave her life of independence and personal identity.
It was during the 1950s that Diana began to explore fully her romantic interests in her long-time crime fighting partner, Col. Steve Trevor. After a period of courtship, Diana revealed herself as Wonder Woman to Trevor. Initially taken aback by the revelation, Trevor and Diana married. Diana would later retire from active duty of the US Navy and decide to become a housewife where she would raise their daughter, Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor
, named after Diana's mother.
by the Immortal JSA villain Vandal Savage
, and freed by Barry Allen
. She mostly preferred to spend her time raising her daughter as a stay at home mother. It would be during this time that the Earth-Two Diana met her younger Earth-One counterpart
. Later she was called upon by the God Mercury along with other heroes of Earth-2, Earth-1, and Earth-S, as the Beastman King Kull wanted to wipe out humanity on all three Earths after capturing the Elders who empowered the Marvel Family
. She helps stop Queen Clea, one of his henchman, from taking over the Earth-Two Atlantis in a story involving the Squadron of Justice. The two Wonder Womans would become good friends occasionally inviting the younger Amazon to Earth-Two to enjoy a home cooked meal that the retired General Trevor would usually cook and the two ladies would trade good humored jokes such as the Earth-One Wonder Woman teasingly commenting that she would take the handsome skilled elder Trevor back to teach her own version how to act, which the elder Wonder Woman would threaten as a cause for a true World War to be fought over, indicating her own decades-long past, as stated over dinner between the Earth-Two and Earth-One Wonder Women.
" came to Earth-Two and erased all of its existence from reality. Diana fought well and was protected from erasure at the end of the Crisis by ascending to Mount Olympus
along with her husband as both were erased and forgotten by the history of new Primary Earth, other than by their daughter who was reformatted into the new universe to be the daughter of Helena Kosmatos (Fury
of World War II).
, she is interrupted by a woman she initially believes is her mother Queen Hippolyta. This is because Hippolyta had become the Golden Age Wonder Woman via time travel
in her continuity. However, the intruder identifies herself as the Earth-Two Wonder Woman, Diana Prince, who has voluntarily left Mount Olympus in order to provide Diana with vital information and guidance. She advises her Post-Crisis counterpart to be "the one thing you haven't been for a very long time... human." She also strongly urges Diana to intervene in a fight taking place at that moment between the Modern Age Superman
and his counterpart, Kal-L
. Having left Mount Olympus, and with her gods' blessings gone, Diana Prince then fades away.
but usually less than the pre-Crisis Earth-Two Flash (Jay Garrick
) as shown during her battle with Garrick when she was possessed by the Stream of Ruthlessness. She was able to leap 40 ft, a record for the Amazons.
Originally she was immortal. But in order to remain in "man's world" after her mission was deemed over by her mother, she had to give up her immortality to remain in her chosen area and began to age as a normal human.
She also had the ability to glide on the wind currents. She needed air currents in order to do this feat and had to be at a much higher locale than that of the locale she wished to travel to by such gliding. She could NOT jump up into the open air high enough to launch herself in this gliding ability, unlike Kal-L who could attain flight from a standing position . She rarely used this gliding ability, preferring to mostly depend on her advanced invisible plane
to travel long distances at extensive speeds.
Attributed to be imbued with the strength of Hercules
, the Earth-Two Wonder Woman had superhuman strength levels where she was seen ripping locked steel doors off their bolts and lifting elephants off the ground with ease . While she was extensively strong, she was routinely shown to be far less than that of the pre-Crisis Earth-Two Superman Kal-L unlike the current primary Wonder Woman incarnation who seems to be more of a match to the current primary Superman who is easily multi-megaton level. She was more resistant then a human, an electric charge that could have killed a normal human only knocked her out.
Diana frequently demonstrated knowledge of every terrestrial language, as well as advanced scientific knowledge. She was once shown hypnotizing Etta Candy's brother, Mint, although her Magic Lasso (unlike the Modern version) allowed her complete mind control over others, once she evn hypnotized someone into taking another identity. Her Amazon training gave her extensive hand-to-hand combat skills, particularly when it came to wrestling and binding opponents. She was also able to telepathically communicate with the Holiday Girls using a mental radio, which could also be used by Etta Candy, and had knowledge of psychology that could heal minds. She also had magnetic hearing due to her earrings, which were given to her by the Venusian
fairy Queen Desira
for stopping the Metor Men attacking her planet, and allow her to contact her.
(following the success of its 1975 pilot movie, The New Original Wonder Woman). Lynda Carter
was cast in the title role, with Lyle Waggoner
as Steve Trevor. Using the World War II era as its setting during Season 1, the series featured major elements from the mythos of Golden Age/Earth-Two version of Wonder Woman, including: Trevor's plane crash on Paradise Island, Princess Diana's tournament victory and departure for Man's World (via the invisible plane
), and the Amazon's secret identity within the War Department as Diana Prince. Most of the villains depicted were Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.
Despite strong ratings, ABC stalled on commissioning a second season, causing the show's frustrated production company (Warner Bros.
) to offer Wonder Woman to CBS
. While ABC dithered, CBS agreed to pick up the series — on the condition that the setting be updated to the present (the 1970s). The title was changed to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, and the series continued until it was cancelled in 1979.
Earth-Two
Earth-Two is a fictional universe appearing in American comic book stories published by DC Comics. First appearing in The Flash #123 , Earth-Two was created to explain how Silver-Age versions of characters such as the Flash could appear in stories with their Golden Age counterparts...
is a fictional DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
superheroine retcon
Retcon
Retroactive continuity is the alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work. Retcons are done for many reasons, including the accommodation of sequels or further derivative works in a series, wherein newer authors or creators want to revise the in-story history to allow a course...
ned from original stories created by Wonder Woman writer/creator William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston
Dr. William Moulton Marston , also known by the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman...
and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
Elizabeth "Sadie" Holloway Marston was an American psychologist who was a career woman at a time when it was difficult for women to be so. She was involved in the creation of the comic book character, Wonder Woman with her husband, William Moulton Marston...
. This "version" of Wonder Woman is attributed to have first appeared in All Star Comics
All Star Comics
All Star Comics is a 1940s comic book series from All-American Publications, one of the early companies that merged with National Periodical Publications to form the modern-day DC Comics. With the exception of the first two issues, All Star Comics primarily told stories about the adventures of the...
#8 (Dec. 1941). This was after DC Comics established a multiverse
Multiverse
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes that together comprise all of reality.Multiverse may also refer to:-In fiction:* Multiverse , the fictional multiverse used by DC Comics...
within their published stories to explain how heroes could have been active before and during the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
era and still retain their youth and subsequent origins in the 1960s.
The Earth-Two Wonder Woman is first featured as a specific separate character from the then mainstream Wonder Woman (referred to as the "Earth-One Wonder Woman") in the second Jay Garrick and Barry Allen team-up. Technically the Earth-Two Wonder Woman had appeared several months earlier cameoed in a single comic book panel.
Like most of the elder Earth-Two incarnations of the DC characters, this version of Wonder Woman was semi-retired from costumed exploits by the time she reappears in later stories indicating her age. She was shown to be aging with gray hair and wrinkles when she is featured in later Justice League stories.
She continued to appear in many later Earth-Two specific features including the multi-generational "Infinity, Inc." series, where her daughter Fury
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.-Pre-Crisis:...
is featured.
She and her version of Earth were eliminated in a company wide storyline titled Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 12-issue American comic book limited series and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity...
. After this series ended she ascended to her world's Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, about 100 kilometres away from Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks. The highest peak Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 metres...
with her husband General Steve Trevor and attained godhood. Although Diana Trevor was eliminated from history due to the storyline's outcome, her daughter was not. Fury, or Lyta Trevor, was later explained to be the child of the New Earth history World War II Fury—Helena Kosmatos
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.-Pre-Crisis:...
.
The Earth-Two Diana Trevor reappeared in mainstream DC Earth during a later storyline titled Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisis is a 2005 - 2006 comic book storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of an eponymous, seven-issue comic book limited series written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Ivan Reis, and Jerry Ordway, and a number of tie-in books...
, but only as a ghost apparition. She later faded from existence after speaking to her newest counterpart Wonder Woman.
At a still later period another storyline was created titled 52
52 (comics)
52 was a weekly American comic book limited series published by DC Comics that debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. The series was written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid with layouts by Keith Giffen...
. In the aftermath of this storyline an alternate reboot version of the Pre-Crisis Earth-Two characters are reintroduced. These characters are separate from their Pre-Crisis Earth-Two versions though bear some resemblances to the Pre Crisis Earth-Two version. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is mentioned by her daughter Fury though does not appear except for a reference picture taken before the death of Bruce Wayne and disappearance of their Superman. The Post-Crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman is formally retired from her Earth's Justice Society team and is suggested to be the current Queen of the Amazons, which never happened to the Earth-Two Diana Trevor before she ascended to Mount Olympus to become a goddess with her husband.
Fictional character biography
Princess Diana of Paradise IslandThemyscira
Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe that is the place of origin of Wonder Woman and her sister Amazons. Known as Paradise Island since Wonder Woman and the island's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 , it was renamed "Themyscira" with the character's February...
— the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two—served as a member of the All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron
The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics superhero team that debuted in a special insert in Justice League of America #193 . Created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway.-The concept:...
and soon after became secretary (later full-fledged member) of the Justice Society of America
Justice Society of America
The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. Conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, the JSA first appeared in All Star Comics #3 ....
. As Diana Prince, she worked in the U.S. War Department
United States Department of War
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department , was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army...
as an assistant to intelligence officer Steve Trevor
Steve Trevor
Steve Trevor is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, as the primary love interest of Wonder Woman. He first appeared in All Star Comics #8 .-Golden Age:...
. Decades later, she and Trevor were married and had a daughter named Lyta (also known as Fury
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.-Pre-Crisis:...
). Although Diana was retcon
Retcon
Retroactive continuity is the alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work. Retcons are done for many reasons, including the accommodation of sequels or further derivative works in a series, wherein newer authors or creators want to revise the in-story history to allow a course...
ned out of existence by the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 12-issue American comic book limited series and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity...
and All-Star Squadron #60, she was later restored into present continuity
Continuity (fiction)
In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of persons, plot, objects, places and events seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time...
.
Early history
Diana, Princess of the Amazons of Earth-TwoEarth-Two
Earth-Two is a fictional universe appearing in American comic book stories published by DC Comics. First appearing in The Flash #123 , Earth-Two was created to explain how Silver-Age versions of characters such as the Flash could appear in stories with their Golden Age counterparts...
was born on the mystical Paradise Island
Themyscira
Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe that is the place of origin of Wonder Woman and her sister Amazons. Known as Paradise Island since Wonder Woman and the island's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 , it was renamed "Themyscira" with the character's February...
several hundred years before she became known to the outside as Wonder Woman. Isolated from the cruelty and corruption of men and their ways, the Amazons
Amazons
The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...
lived in peace and advancement openly working with and obeying the will of the Olympian gods. Longing for a child of her own, Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons, begged for the gods to grant her request and turn her perfect clay statue into a real girl. Sympathetic to Hippolyta's request, the gods relented and animated the statue with true life and the girl immediately leaped off the pedestal and into her mother's arms. She named it after Diana, goddess of the Moon, who became her godmother.
Pleased with the child, Hippolyta began to raise her daughter as an Amazon with all the station and privilege of her mother's royalty. Diana would age slowly and stop aging altogether upon reaching her adulthood as with all of the Amazons. Diana would continue to excel surpassing most of her Amazon sisters in her skills and intelligence, she could run faster than a deer at the age of five, and uproot a tree easily at the age of three.
Diana would continue to perform as a contented Amazon until the fated day when Captain Steve Trevor
Steve Trevor
Steve Trevor is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, as the primary love interest of Wonder Woman. He first appeared in All Star Comics #8 .-Golden Age:...
crash landed on Paradise Island. Never having seen a true man before Diana was immediately attracted to the handsome man despite his extensive injuries. Violating the Island rules about taking in outsiders, Diana took the unconscious Trevor back to the Amazons in an attempt to save his life. Pleading with her mother to save the man, Hippolyte relented and used the life healing Purple Ray
Purple Ray
The Purple Ray is a fictional healing device featured in the Wonder Woman comics.-Pre-Crisis:Prior to the comic book storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths, Diana invented the Purple Ray in order to heal Steve Trevor from injuries he sustained when his plane was shot down and he was left adrift in the...
on Trevor saving his life by bringing him back from death.
Discovering the outside world was engaged in full world wide war, Diana wanted to participate and help stop the war. Hippolyta refused stating that she and the others should not get involved in the ways of the outsiders. But when the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena appeared to Hippolyta and declared that it was time for an Amazon to travel to "Man's World" and fight the evil of the Nazis as Ares felt he ruled the world, which was all at war, and Aphrodite wanted to help America win, claiming it was the 'last citadel of democracy' (this is actually inaccurate, as the UK was still free). A tournament was held to determine who would be the Amazon champion. Although forbidden by Hippolyta to participate in the tournament, Princess Diana did so nevertheless, concealing her identity with a mask. Upon winning all the rounds Diana revealed her identity to her heartbroken mother who feared that she would never see her daughter again.
After winning the tournament and revealing her true identity, Queen Hippolyta relented and allowed her daughter to wear the costume of Wonder Woman and travel to the outside world. Diana returned Steve Trevor to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and adopted the identity of a Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
nurse named Diana Prince so she could be close to Trevor as he recovered from his injuries. She assisted him against a Japanese agent.
Now, Princess Diana began to operate as Wonder Woman publicly and as a glasses wearing Diana Prince, forged papers allowed her to become the recently promoted Major Trevor's and Col. Darnell's confidential assistant. Later the real Diana Prince returned and tried to take Diana's role as her inventor husband was having financial trouble selling his new weapon to the army. Wonder Woman saves Diana when she is kidnapped by a Japanese agent who tries to get the weapon, and after her husband's weapon is shown to work Diana Prince starts using her married name, leaving Wonder Woman to remain in her identity.
She would continue in this position fighting crime alongside the Justice Society of America
Justice Society of America
The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. Conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, the JSA first appeared in All Star Comics #3 ....
(on Earth-Two) as their first female member though she would be regulated to subservient duties performing as an actual secretary for the Justice Society despite her beyond human strength and abilities, as the JSA had somehow discovered her identity, which Hawkman
Hawkman
Hawkman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in Flash Comics #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940....
revealed to her. She was shown taking dictation and typing the teams minutes as costumed Wonder Woman. Diana would rejoin the team when it reformed as the All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron
The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics superhero team that debuted in a special insert in Justice League of America #193 . Created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway.-The concept:...
and expanded.
Diana would continue to perform as an open crime fighter after World War Two and resisted being recalled home to Paradise Island after the war, preferring to give up her immortality
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
than leave her life of independence and personal identity.
Marriage
During the 1950s, Diana was able to continue operating as a super powered crime fighter as she had admitted to having no secret identity and stated herself to be a legendary Amazon, unlike many of the other masked heroes who were forced to either reveal their secret private identity or stop operating by the Federal government's committee on un-American Activities. This of course was not truly accurate on Diana's part as she continued to use her alias of Diana Prince.It was during the 1950s that Diana began to explore fully her romantic interests in her long-time crime fighting partner, Col. Steve Trevor. After a period of courtship, Diana revealed herself as Wonder Woman to Trevor. Initially taken aback by the revelation, Trevor and Diana married. Diana would later retire from active duty of the US Navy and decide to become a housewife where she would raise their daughter, Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.-Pre-Crisis:...
, named after Diana's mother.
Later adventures
Diana would continue to remain active as crime fighter, even rejoining the reformed Justice Society of America in the 1960s, as she was one of the JSA members placed in suspended animationSuspended animation
Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means. Extreme cold can be used to precipitate the slowing of an individual's functions; use...
by the Immortal JSA villain Vandal Savage
Vandal Savage
Vandal Savage is a fictional character, a supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Green Lantern vol. 1 #10 , and was created by Alfred Bester and Martin Nodell....
, and freed by Barry Allen
Barry Allen
The Flash is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe. He is the second character known as the Flash. The character first appeared in Showcase #4 , created by writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome and penciler Carmine Infantino. His name combines talk show hosts Barry Gray...
. She mostly preferred to spend her time raising her daughter as a stay at home mother. It would be during this time that the Earth-Two Diana met her younger Earth-One counterpart
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
. Later she was called upon by the God Mercury along with other heroes of Earth-2, Earth-1, and Earth-S, as the Beastman King Kull wanted to wipe out humanity on all three Earths after capturing the Elders who empowered the Marvel Family
Marvel Family
The Marvel Family is a group of fictional characters, a team of superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes. Created in 1942 by writer Otto Binder and Fawcett artists C. C...
. She helps stop Queen Clea, one of his henchman, from taking over the Earth-Two Atlantis in a story involving the Squadron of Justice. The two Wonder Womans would become good friends occasionally inviting the younger Amazon to Earth-Two to enjoy a home cooked meal that the retired General Trevor would usually cook and the two ladies would trade good humored jokes such as the Earth-One Wonder Woman teasingly commenting that she would take the handsome skilled elder Trevor back to teach her own version how to act, which the elder Wonder Woman would threaten as a cause for a true World War to be fought over, indicating her own decades-long past, as stated over dinner between the Earth-Two and Earth-One Wonder Women.
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Diana would continue in her role as an elder stateswoman among the superhero community until the "Crisis on Infinite EarthsCrisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 12-issue American comic book limited series and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify its then 50-year-old continuity...
" came to Earth-Two and erased all of its existence from reality. Diana fought well and was protected from erasure at the end of the Crisis by ascending to Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, about 100 kilometres away from Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks. The highest peak Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 metres...
along with her husband as both were erased and forgotten by the history of new Primary Earth, other than by their daughter who was reformatted into the new universe to be the daughter of Helena Kosmatos (Fury
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury is the codename shared by three DC Comics superheroes, two of whom are mother and daughter, both of whom directly connected with the Furies of mythology, and the third who is an altogether different character.-Pre-Crisis:...
of World War II).
Infinite Crisis
When the new or "Post-Crisis" Wonder Woman is breaking up a riot in BostonBoston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, she is interrupted by a woman she initially believes is her mother Queen Hippolyta. This is because Hippolyta had become the Golden Age Wonder Woman via time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
in her continuity. However, the intruder identifies herself as the Earth-Two Wonder Woman, Diana Prince, who has voluntarily left Mount Olympus in order to provide Diana with vital information and guidance. She advises her Post-Crisis counterpart to be "the one thing you haven't been for a very long time... human." She also strongly urges Diana to intervene in a fight taking place at that moment between the Modern Age Superman
Superman
Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
and his counterpart, Kal-L
Kal-L
The Superman of Earth-Two is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Justice League of America #73 . He is a version of the Kryptonian superhero Superman from an alternate reality called Earth-Two...
. Having left Mount Olympus, and with her gods' blessings gone, Diana Prince then fades away.
Powers and abilities
The Earth-Two Wonder Woman had superhuman speed, strength, agility and accuracy. Her superhuman speed and agility were as fast as the god MercuryMercury (mythology)
Mercury was a messenger who wore winged sandals, and a god of trade, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is related to the Latin word merx , mercari , and merces...
but usually less than the pre-Crisis Earth-Two Flash (Jay Garrick
Jay Garrick
Jay Garrick is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe and the first to use the name Flash.-The Flash:...
) as shown during her battle with Garrick when she was possessed by the Stream of Ruthlessness. She was able to leap 40 ft, a record for the Amazons.
Originally she was immortal. But in order to remain in "man's world" after her mission was deemed over by her mother, she had to give up her immortality to remain in her chosen area and began to age as a normal human.
She also had the ability to glide on the wind currents. She needed air currents in order to do this feat and had to be at a much higher locale than that of the locale she wished to travel to by such gliding. She could NOT jump up into the open air high enough to launch herself in this gliding ability, unlike Kal-L who could attain flight from a standing position . She rarely used this gliding ability, preferring to mostly depend on her advanced invisible plane
Invisible Plane
The Invisible Plane is the fictional DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. It first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 The Invisible Plane (sometimes referred to as the Invisible Jetplane, Invisible Jet, and Robot Plane) is the fictional DC Comics...
to travel long distances at extensive speeds.
Attributed to be imbued with the strength of Hercules
Hercules (DC Comics)
Hercules is a fictional Olympian god in the DC Universe based on the Greek demigod and hero of the same name....
, the Earth-Two Wonder Woman had superhuman strength levels where she was seen ripping locked steel doors off their bolts and lifting elephants off the ground with ease . While she was extensively strong, she was routinely shown to be far less than that of the pre-Crisis Earth-Two Superman Kal-L unlike the current primary Wonder Woman incarnation who seems to be more of a match to the current primary Superman who is easily multi-megaton level. She was more resistant then a human, an electric charge that could have killed a normal human only knocked her out.
Diana frequently demonstrated knowledge of every terrestrial language, as well as advanced scientific knowledge. She was once shown hypnotizing Etta Candy's brother, Mint, although her Magic Lasso (unlike the Modern version) allowed her complete mind control over others, once she evn hypnotized someone into taking another identity. Her Amazon training gave her extensive hand-to-hand combat skills, particularly when it came to wrestling and binding opponents. She was also able to telepathically communicate with the Holiday Girls using a mental radio, which could also be used by Etta Candy, and had knowledge of psychology that could heal minds. She also had magnetic hearing due to her earrings, which were given to her by the Venusian
Venusian
Venusian, Venerean or Venerial may refer to:*Of or relating to the planet Venus*Venusians, hypothetical or fictional beings that inhabit the planet Venus...
fairy Queen Desira
Queen Desira
Queen Desira is the name of two fictional characters of royal background. The first appeared in many Golden Age adventures with Wonder Woman...
for stopping the Metor Men attacking her planet, and allow her to contact her.
TV series
In 1976, an hour-long Wonder Woman television series premiered on ABCAmerican Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
(following the success of its 1975 pilot movie, The New Original Wonder Woman). Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter
Lynda Jean Carter is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman ....
was cast in the title role, with Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Wesley Waggoner is an American actor and former model, best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and for playing the role of Steve Trevor in the Wonder Woman television series from 1975 to 1979...
as Steve Trevor. Using the World War II era as its setting during Season 1, the series featured major elements from the mythos of Golden Age/Earth-Two version of Wonder Woman, including: Trevor's plane crash on Paradise Island, Princess Diana's tournament victory and departure for Man's World (via the invisible plane
Invisible Plane
The Invisible Plane is the fictional DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. It first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 The Invisible Plane (sometimes referred to as the Invisible Jetplane, Invisible Jet, and Robot Plane) is the fictional DC Comics...
), and the Amazon's secret identity within the War Department as Diana Prince. Most of the villains depicted were Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.
Despite strong ratings, ABC stalled on commissioning a second season, causing the show's frustrated production company (Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
) to offer Wonder Woman to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
. While ABC dithered, CBS agreed to pick up the series — on the condition that the setting be updated to the present (the 1970s). The title was changed to The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, and the series continued until it was cancelled in 1979.