Early H.G. Peters design that would eventually see the light of day
- 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.
- Prior to George Pérez, Steve Gerber (of Howard the Duck fame} had pitched to do the reboot of Wonder Woman following Crisis on Infinite Earths that would have been in conjunction with Frank Miller working on Batman reboot and the both of them collaborating on a Superman reboot.
- George Pérez was planning on doing an extra-sized one-shot issue that would have explored Wonder Woman and Superman's relationship in a "mature" manner but this was eventually turned into a two-part crossover between the Superman and Wonder Woman titles.
- John Byrne once stated in an interview that he would have had Diana been Wonder Woman during World War II, instead of Hippolyta as he wrote it, and eventually return to Man's World in the reboot.
- Greg Rucka had wanted to change Wonder Woman's costume in order to add a Greek-inspired armored skirt, but WB rejected the idea for changing her costume too much from its recognizable form. Diana would wear a hoplite-inspired look in his run but only during her duel with Medusa
◊. - Rucka actually had a number of arcs in progress that had been carefully foreshadowed and set up prior to Infinite Crisis destroying any chance of seeing them:
- There was going to be an arc exploring Artemis (the goddess') disappearance and why Demeter seemed to have picked up Artie's portfolio.
- Veronica Cale was finally going to get her masterstroke by manipulating the US into invading Themyscira, a plot point which had been very clearly set up with her dope of a senator boyfriend bowing to her every command, the US Navy's arrival to help with the disaster slowly turning into a blockade with Artemis and Philippus trying to convince the president to remove the military power staring down at their shores and the president refusing by insisting they hand over purple ray tech, which they won't due to its power source's devastating weapons grade potential. The seeds of this were apparently what inspired less subtle minds with no real interest in the core of Themysciran identity to later mandate the creation of the universally reviled Shamazons Attack.
- Gail Simone's run would've featured an interracial lesbian wedding between Queen Hippolyta and Phillipus. This was scrapped when Simone's run was Cut Short in favor of J. Michael Straczynski's Continuity Reboot Wonder Woman: Odyssey.
- Simone had also wanted a few other heroes to appear in the all-female team-up from issue #600, including Rocket from the Icon series.
- The New 52 Wonder Woman was set to give Diana's costume pants◊, but this was ultimately scrapped.
- Greg Rucka was actually brought onto the series at the last second, and brought Nicola Scott with him from Black Magick. The first writer was actually Marguerite Bennett of Animosity and DC Comics Bombshells fame, though Liam Sharp was already going to be one of the regular artists. The second artist prior to Scott is still unknown. Bennett had to have surgery while she was working on the book and fell past her deadline so Rucka was brought on.
Comics - Miscellaneous
- There were plans in the 90s for a crossover between Wonder Woman and Xena, with the entire issue being completed before DC shelved it.
- Adam Hughes was tapped to write and draw All-Star Wonder Woman for the All-Star DC Comics line. The project met with heavy amounts of Schedule Slip due to Hughes having difficulties handling both the scripting and illustration duties, and was presumably axed once and for all when the All-Star line was cancelled.
- Phil Jimenez pitched a story that would have been a multiverse team up of various incarnations of Wonder Woman and supporting characters; from the original the Golden Age Wonder Woman, the '70s Lynda Carter show, to the DC Animated Universe, every incarnation of Wonder Girl, and the other characters who held the "Wonder Woman" title.
- Wonder Woman: Earth One was originally supposed to be written by Greg Rucka with Grant Morrison's story being a separate WW project altogether. Dan DiDio giving the project to Morrison was the final straw for Rucka, who quit working for DC as a result. Much of Rucka's planned Earth One pitch would later serve as the basis for his Rebirth run some years later.
- The Legend of Wonder Woman was planned to have a sequel that would have featured Cheetah, Circe, Giganta, and Blue Snowman. It was canceled over apparent bad blood between the creative team and DC Editorial. Renae de Liz, author of the series, shared some preliminary art for the series that included Circe.
- Wonder Woman: Diana's Daughter by Greg Rucka was announced as part of the initial DC Black Label titles that would have focused on a young woman in a Bad Future setting discovering she's the daughter of Wonder Woman. But after no word on any updates, Rucka stated in an interview he couldn't figure out a way to get the premise of the story to work and shelved it indefinitely.
Other Media
- Wonder Woman and the Star Riders was envisioned as a toy line and accompanying animated show, but only promotional material, including a promotional comic, was actually produced.
- Wonder Woman was originally planned to appear much earlier in the DC Animated Universe in Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Static Shock but rights issues with the Marston estate prevented this.
- Before Gotham was commissioned the CW was looking at developing a possible Smallville-like approach to Wonder Woman, focusing on her teenage years and her emergence into the world outside Themyscira which was to be titled Amazon.
- Producer Butch Lukic revealed that Justice Society: World War II was a repurposed version of the plans for a cancelled animated Wonder Woman show set in World War II, intended for the now-defunct DC Universe streaming service. Proposed before Wonder Woman (2017) came out (which also was supposed to be set in WWII until it was changed to WWI), the pitch was rejected as it was believed by execs that there would be no interest in any Wonder Woman-centric media (until, of course, the 2017 movie proved them wrong).
