History ComicBook / SensationComicsNumber1

-> ''Like the crash of thunder from the sky comes the'' '''ComicBook/WonderWoman''', ''to save the world from the hatreds and wars of men in a man-made world! And what a woman! [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman A woman with the eternal beauty of Aphrodite]] and [[WomenAreWiser the wisdom of Athena]]- [[SilkHidingSteel yet whose lovely form hides]] [[SuperSpeed the agility of Mercury]] and [[SuperStrength the steel sinews of a Hercules!]]'' ''Who is'' '''Wonder Woman?''' ''Why does she fight for America? To find the answer, [[ComicBook/AllStarComicsNumber8 let us go back]]- Back to [[LadyLand that mysterious Amazon isle called Paradise Island!]] To that enlightened land of women floated the unconscious form of a man- [[TheAce Captain]] [[DistressedDude Steve Trevor]]- A U.S. Army intelligence officer who tried to stop a mystery bomber from raining death on an American army camp. Here on Paradise Island, on which man had never before set foot, the Amazon maid Diana [[LoveAtFirstSight fell in love with Captain Trevor,]] and decided to bring him back to America and help him wage battle for freedom, democracy, and womankind thru-out the world!''

-> ''Like the crash of thunder from the sky comes the'' '''Franchise/WonderWoman''', ''to save the world from the hatreds and wars of men in a man-made world! And what a woman! [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman A woman with the eternal beauty of Aphrodite]] and [[WomenAreWiser the wisdom of Athena]]- [[SilkHidingSteel yet whose lovely form hides]] [[SuperSpeed the agility of Mercury]] and [[SuperStrength the steel sinews of a Hercules!]]'' ''Who is'' '''Wonder Woman?''' ''Why does she fight for America? To find the answer, [[ComicBook/AllStarComicsNumber8 let us go back]]- Back to [[LadyLand that mysterious Amazon isle called Paradise Island!]] To that enlightened land of women floated the unconscious form of a man- [[TheAce Captain]] [[DistressedDude Steve Trevor]]- A U.S. Army intelligence officer who tried to stop a mystery bomber from raining death on an American army camp. Here on Paradise Island, on which man had never before set foot, the Amazon maid Diana [[LoveAtFirstSight fell in love with Captain Trevor,]] and decided to bring him back to America and help him wage battle for freedom, democracy, and womankind thru-out the world!''

''Sensation Comics #1'' is the debut issue for the AnthologyComic, ''ComicBook/SensationComics'', published in January 1942 by Franchise/DCComics (then known as National Comics), written by Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston (under the pen name "[[ComicBook/WonderWomanCharlesMoulton Charles Moulton]]") with art by H.G. Peter. It also marks the first time ComicBook/WonderWoman appears as the lead feature of the comic. The story itself continues where Diana's OriginStory left off, with her returning ComicBook/SteveTrevor to America, establishing her superhero career, developing a SecretIdentity and finally stopping the Nazis from bombing army camps.

* GuardianAngel: Steve thinks Wonder Woman to be his. She doesn't deny this.

* OriginStory: This story continues where [[ComicBook/AllStarComicsNumber8 All-Star Comics #8]] left off, with Wonder Woman landing on Man's World, beginning her heroic career and developing her SecretIdentity.

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!!Tropes pertaining to ''The Origin of the Gay Ghost:''

* BadassNormal: Charles Collins, a dissolute socialite, appears to Deborah to have become one of these when The Gay Ghost possesses his corpse.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: After modern-Deborah Wallace rejects his proposal for the umpteenth time, Charles Collins laments having been an "idiotic rake" his entire life and wishes he could make up for it. When three strange men turn up in her ancestral castle as he and she are touring it, he realizes one of the strangers has drawn a gun, tells Debbie to run for it, and lunges at the three of them, only to get shot. As he dies he says that it's the one thing he's done that he's ever been proud of.
* DemonicPossession: ''Ghostly'' Possession. The Ghost can inhabit any material object (and chills out inside a painting of himself for a couple hundred years), but to do this with a human corpse requires that the previous owner had had at least ''some'' good in them. Collins proved that with his HeroicSacrifice.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight:
** Keith Everet's beloved Deborah Wallace was out riding with her guards when they heard the pistol shot that killed him, and they raced to investigate just in time for him to do this.
** Everet also props Collins up as he dies.
* ExactWords: His ancestors told him that they could help him return to the land of the living but he had to wait until "Debora Wallace" returned to Ireland before he could begin his new life on Earth. Upon seeing that she died, he wondered how they could possibly be reunited, until over 240 years later, when young American Deborah Wallace came to see the castle where her great-great-grand aunt had lived until she died of a broken heart...
* TheEyesHaveIt: The painting he inhabits for a couple of centuries betrays his presence with its glittering eyes (not that people realize the truth).
* FauxDeath: Charles Collins's body really ''is'' a corpse whenever Everet isn't possessing it--fortunately it doesn't appear to rot or develop rigor mortis. Ghost magic at work?
* FightsLikeANormal: While possessing Collins's body the Ghost obviously can't use any super-powers without breaking his cover. Fortunately, Keith was a highly skilled and agile battler of all sorts in life, and "fights like an infuriated demon".
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Keith is bemused to hear that Deborah Wallace's descendant came to Castle Connaught from America--that wild place with Indians? Fortunately, "new" Deborah brushes his odd new mannerisms off, though she isn't very happy when he nearly kills her trying to figure out how to drive a car.
* {{Flight}}: Ever met a ghost who couldn't? Apparently, The Gay Ghost can fly at the speed of thought. Somehow anyone he's carrying doesn't get ripped to shreds.
* GhostlyChill: After Keith's ghost rose from his body, he tried to get Deborah's attention by touching her arm, but this was all she felt.
* HandicappedBadass: Three footpads set a trap for Everet which led to him being thrown from his horse and smashing his right shoulder. He was still able to use his untrained left arm to hold off two of them at once with his rapier, before the third grabbed one of the pistols from Everet's saddlebag and shot him.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Yeeaah. Reprints of ''Gay Ghost'' comics in the 70's would change his name to The Grim Ghost. He'd also show up in the comic book afterlife in Grant Morrison's ''Animal Man'' saying he didn't want to be brought back since the meaning of the word "gay" had changed and he didn't want to be misrepresented.
* HeroesPreferSwords: The Gay Ghost can manifest a rapier.
* HeroicSacrifice: Charles Collins dies trying to stop the Nazi spies from going after Deborah.
* HeroicVow: The Gay Ghost makes two:
** He promises his ancestors that when he returns to Earth, he'll take up the cause of right and use the secrets they tell him to fight for justice.
** As Charles Collins is dying, he wishes that he could have died with Deborah thinking well of him, and Keith swears to make her fall in love with ''both'' of them. This oath is convenient for the writers since it justifies his keeping Charles as a secret identity.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Discussed. Keith's ancestors explain the secrets of the dead to him, allowing him to use his ghostly powers without any problems.
* {{Intangibility}}: As a ghost this is his natural state, but he can manipulate his ectoplasm to become tangible at will. This can also be used on other people.
* {{Invisibility}}: Ditto.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Keith hadn't planned to try, but while he was holding off two bandits with his swordwork, another took one of Keith's pistols from his fallen horse and shot him. It works a lot better when bullets pass through you, it later turns out.
* OhCrap:
** Modern-Deborah's certainly thrilled when The Gay Ghost comes out of one of the walls in her castle and joyously greets her, just not the way he hoped for.
** The Nazi spy who shot Charles Collins gives a justified one when Collins, possessed by The Ghost, gets back up. He has an extended panic attack when The Ghost incarnates in his old form and ignores being shot multiple times.
-->'''Spy''': You-You're dead! Lie down and ''die''! Hey, this isn't '''''FAIR!!'''''
* PsychicRadar: He's also to drag a Nazi spy and the plans he stole directly to where a bunch of British generals are meeting, some 240-ish years after he was killed, so he implicitly has some sort of divination sense.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Keith Everet was/is an earl, so a Peer Who Does Something, rather.
* {{Socialite}}: Modern day Deborah Wallace is one of these, and famous enough to be a crime magnet.
* VengefulGhost: Of course, since the people who killed him are ''long'' deceased themselves, Keith Everet has to content himself with fighting criminals in general.
* VigilanteExecution: In 1700 Ireland, "We didn't mean to kill him, we just wanted to rob him!" doesn't exactly hold up as an excuse to avoid one of these, as the footpads who killed Keith Everet found out.
* YearOutsideHourInside: Keith is startled to learn that the lecture from his ancestors about the secrets of the dead actually lasted for eighty years of living-world time, and his Deborah is long dead.

-> ''Like the crash of thunder from the sky comes the'' '''Wonder Woman''', ''to save the world from the hatreds and wars of men in a man-made world! And what a woman! [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman A woman with the eternal beauty of Aphrodite]] and [[WomenAreWiser the wisdom of Athena]]- [[SilkHidingSteel yet whose lovely form hides]] [[SuperSpeed the agility of Mercury]] and [[SuperStrength the steel sinews of a Hercules!]]'' ''Who is'' '''Wonder Woman?''' ''Why does she fight for America? To find the answer, [[ComicBook/AllStarComicsNumber8 let us go back]]- Back to [[LadyLand that mysterious Amazon isle called Paradise Island!]] To that enlightened land of women floated the unconscious form of a man- [[TheAce Captain]] [[DistressedDude Steve Trevor]]- A U.S. Army intelligence officer who tried to stop a mystery bomber from raining death on an American army camp. Here on Paradise Island, on which man had never before set foot, the Amazon maid Diana [[LoveAtFirstSight fell in love with Captain Trevor,]] and decided to bring him back to America and help him wage battle for freedom, democracy, and womankind thru-out the world!''

''Sensation Comics #1'' is the debut issue for the AnthologyComic, ''ComicBook/SensationComics'', published in January 1942 by Franchise/DCComics (then known as National Comics), written by Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston (under the pen name "[[ComicBook/WonderWomanCharlesMoulton Charles Moulton]]") with art by H.G. Peter. It also marks the first time Franchise/WonderWoman appears as the lead feature of the comic. The story itself continues where Diana's OriginStory left off, with her returning ComicBook/SteveTrevor to America, establishing her superhero career, developing a SecretIdentity and finally stopping the Nazis from bombing army camps.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Charles Collins was one, which was why modern-Deborah Wallace friend-zoned him.