This is the Triva page for Wonder Woman Volume 1 for Triva relating to the Wonder Woman franchise as a whole see Trivia.Wonder Woman
- Creator Backlash: Dennis O Neil did not look back kindly on his run on the book.
- Development Gag: During the concept phase Marston was considering naming his superhero woman Suprema before going with Wonder Woman. Later he had her fight the leader of an overzealous space police force named Suprema.
- Died During Production: Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston died of cancer in 1947, and despite working under a pen name which he shared with Joye Murchison on the comic Joye had quit to better raise her daughter who was distraught when her mom would board the train for New York. DC replaced him with Robert Kanigher who had a very different take on the Amazon princess and the rest of the cast, and placed everyone he didn't put on a bus in far more traditional gender roles.
- Gay Panic: While "Hypnota" and their sister only ever refer to Hypnota using male pronouns—though never come out and say Hypnota is transgender or non-binary—all subsequent appearances of the character call her "Hypnotic Woman" and remove all masculine traits from the character. While this might be excused as not wanting a villainous trans character such a reading is very forgiving, and forgets that Hypnota clearly already went by male pronouns before the betrayal and brain damage that led to their villainy.
- Pen Name: Charles Moulton was a pen name used by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and his assistant Joye Murchison.
- Recycled Script:
- Diana has been tied to a buoy with her own unbreakable lasso by a villain who intended to then use the opportunity to blow her up but doesn't manage it before her escape in issues #5, #68 and #146.
- Orana's tale as an abrasive redheaded Amazon who competes in a contest to replace Diana as Wonder Woman, and wins and temporarily does but dies in the role was later retold in Wonder Woman: The Contest with Artemis as the abrasive redheaded Amazon.
- What Could Have Been:
- Preliminary artwork showed Marston and Peter were considering a costume that included a red halter-top with a crisp white collar paired with simple shorts rather than the strapless bustier and busy star pattern of the culottes they ended up going with. This design was revisited decades later for DC Comics Bombshells, while trading her tiara for a yellow bandanna.
- In the last few issues Marston and Murchison wrote before Marston's death a bunch of old villains were brought back, ties between Hypnota and the slavers of Saturn unhappy with the current alliance with America and abolition of slavery were introduced, and a plot to start a war between Saturn and Earth was unveiled, though not the full group behind it. While Villainy, Inc. was formed in Marston's final issue the overarching plot concerning Saturn was never brought to completion.
