History ComicBook / WonderWoman1942

* WeaponsKitchenSink: In the original stories dodging and deflecting bullets was the most popular game on Paradise Island. This meant that the Amazons of Paradise Island used such weapons as guns, [[InescapableNet nets]], [[KnowsTheRopes lassos]], [[HeroesPreferSwords swords]], [[{{BFG}} cannons]], [[TheArcher bows and arrows]], [[CarryABigStick clubs]], spears, [[ImprobableAImingSKills throwing knives]], [[ImprobableWeaponUser plant toxins & seeds]], [[AttackDrone mentally controlled fighter planes]], [[KleptomaniacHero stolen Saturnian]] {{ray gun}}s, and magic as personal weapons all alongside each other, all while holding to a strict [[ThouShaltNotKill no killing rule]]. Most of them preferred [[BareFistedMonk unarmed combat]] or lassos though, as it made it easier to avoid killing opponents.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' (issues 750 - )

''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' Volume 1 ran from 1942 to 1986, with [[LongRunners over three hundred issues]] to its name, through the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver]] Ages of Comic Books into the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]]. These issues covered a ''lot'' of themes, characters and [[StoryArc story arcs]], with the tales starting out on what would eventually be called "Earth-Two" and ending on what would be termed "Earth-One" but can generally be organized by these writers and eras:

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} ComicBook/WonderWoman got her super-powers from training in "Amazonian concentration" -- it was even a skill that Amazons could teach to normal human females. [[https://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2015/11/weekly_wonder_woman_the_legend_of_wonder_woman_1.php Wonder Woman had been established]] (in the first issue of her own comic book, June 1942), as unquestionably a [[ArtificialHuman clay statue brought to life]] but having the same abilities as any other Amazon, just a bit more, or at an earlier than usual age. By UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, new editor Robert Kanigher insisted on having the story retconned to establish her as having been conceived and born in the usual way and bequeathed [[SemiDivine powers straight from the Gods]] in a sequence reminiscent of ''Sleeping Beauty'''s Aurora having gifts bestowed upon her by the fairies.

Charles Moulton was a pen name used by Wonder Woman creator Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston and his assistant Joye Murchison, who used the pen name both together and separately. Their writing paired with Harry G. Peter's art marks the book's unmistakable [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] era. Issue 29 was Peter on his own after Marston's death.\\

Robert Kanigher has had the longest run as a writer for ''Wonder Woman'' to date, which if one counts liberally could be considered to have spanned twenty-two years. While his first stories are arguably still part of the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and kept traditional artist Harry G. Peter he swiftly departed from the idiosyncrasies that characterized "Charles Moulton"'s run for the UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks. The official switch over from "Earth-Two", which is where DC's Golden Age stories reside, to "Earth-One" occurred in issue 98, but the stories had already had that Silver Age flavor for quite some time before this.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Diana had ''earrings'' to provide life support in space by creating a "transparent envelope". Since she was also sculpted from clay and brought to life through magic it is entirely possible she does in fact not need oxygen to survive.

* CreepyCentipedes: Part of ComicBook/WonderWoman's rogue's gallery in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks The Silver Age]] included the Crimson Centipede, an abomination of a man with [[GreenAndMean green skin]] and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous 100 arms and legs]] with GunsAkimbo, created by [[BigBad Ares, the God of War]].

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: In a Creator/RobertKanigher issue of ''Wonder Woman '' during UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/08/26/i-love-ya-but-you%e2%80%99re-strange-when-robert-kanigher-personally-fired-the-supporting-cast-of-wonder-woman/ one story]] was about Kanigher himself dropping most of the supporting characters to retool ''Wonder Woman'' into something closer to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, as well as [[RunningGag characters wondering whether or not he has a yellow bowtie]].

The UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks was in full swing here, and while Roy Thomas was the most consistent writer for this run Marv Wolfman wrote issue 287, Paul Kupperberg wrote issue 297, Dan Mishkin wrote issues 298 and 299, and Roy often shared a writing credit with another creator, usually Paul Levitz.

Franchise/WonderWoman's first self titled book, though she was already starring as the feature of the {{anthology comic}} ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' which was published concurrently with this volume until 1953. This volume was initially published from 1942 until 1986, used in 2010 for the ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'' story line to celebrate the 600th issue of ''Wonder Woman'', and then returned to once more in 2020.

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* AlienSpaceBats: The desire to avoid this was a large part of the reason the book moved so swiftly away from the Golden Age continuity is that within a year of WWII ending Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor's efforts had ensured there were multiple extraterrestrial governments with treaties with the United States and embassies in Washington DC, which meant that Earth-Two's history should be diverging quite distinctly from what was actually happening post WWII.

* BoundAndGagged: Her creator was into bondage himself, and he ''definitely'' wrote it into the job description.[[note]]"The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound... only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society."[[/note]] The original Wonder Woman has superhuman abilities... unless her vambraces were welded together by a man, at which point she became de-powered. So you can expect incredible amounts of bondage throughout the first couple decades of her comic, especially given that she nearly constantly allows herself to be captured in order to be a PlayAlongPrisoner. It's such a common occurrence - to the point of once suggesting that the villains threaten to ''untie'' her - that the [[http://www.superdickery.com Superdickery website]] has an [[http://www.superdickery.com/tag/suffering-sappho/ entire gallery]] devoted to it. ComicBook/SteveTrevor tended to end up captured and tied up pretty often as well, and unlike his girlfriend could not just snap the ropes and/or chains when he wanted to leave.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|OfComicBooks}} Franchise/WonderWoman got her super-powers from training in "Amazonian concentration" -- it was even a skill that Amazons could teach to normal human females. [[https://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2015/11/weekly_wonder_woman_the_legend_of_wonder_woman_1.php Wonder Woman had been established]] (in the first issue of her own comic book, June 1942), as unquestionably a [[ArtificialHuman clay statue brought to life]] but having the same abilities as any other Amazon, just a bit more, or at an earlier than usual age. By UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, new editor Robert Kanigher insisted on having the story retconned to establish her as having been conceived and born in the usual way and bequeathed [[SemiDivine powers straight from the Gods]] in a sequence reminiscent of ''Sleeping Beauty'''s Aurora having gifts bestowed upon her by the fairies.

* AdaptationalJerkass: With the switch in writers after William Moulton Marston's death ComicBook/SteveTrevor and Gen. Darnell become noticeably more sexist, frequently saying things they'd once have been happy to have Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls' help with are a man's job and belittling their once trusted ally Etta Candy. This changes were somewhat subtle at first, but the subtlety was dropped when the book switched from the Golden Age Earth-Two to the Silver Age Earth-One.

* BackFromTheDead: After Creator/RobertKanigher turned ComicBook/SteveTrevor into the quintessential UselessBoyfriend he was killed off to give Wondy some angst for her depowered mod era. Eros decided Steve's corpse looked like a nice way to court Diana and wore it for a while as "Steve Howard," then Aphrodite took what she could recover of Steve's memories, abducted and mind wiped a Steve from another universe and implanted those memories into that Steve to give Diana the love of her life back in a decidedly creepy fashion.

* BodyBackupDrive: Earth-One Aphrodite treats versions of ComicBook/SteveTrevor from other universes as handy back up bodies for the memories and essence of the Earth-One Steve. As a gift to Diana she brought Earth-270 Steve to Earth-One, erased his memories and implanted the memories and essence of the deceased local Steve.

* CockFight: Ronno the Merman and "Wingo" the male Harpy fight over Diana's affections pretty much any time they're in the same issue. While she befriended them both as a teenager in the ComicBook/WonderGirl Impossible Tales her affections ultimately lie with ComicBook/SteveTrevor rather than either of her constantly fighting childhood friends.

* CreepyCentipedes: Part of {{Franchise/Wonder Woman}}'s rogue's gallery in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks The Silver Age]] included the Crimson Centipede, an abomination of a man with [[GreenAndMean green skin]] and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous 100 arms and legs]] with GunsAkimbo, created by [[BigBad Ares, the God of War]].
* CrystalPrison: Osira traps Wonder Woman and other ComicBook/{{JSA}} members in pyramid shaped force fields which she then solidifies into crystal prisons.

* EngagementChallenge: Kenyah imposes a challenge for ComicBook/{{Nubia}} expecting to fight other men for ownership of her more than anything resembling marriage, instead she furiously answers him with:

* RememberTheNewGuy: Remember that little orphan girl Diana [[Comicbook/WhoIsDonnaTroy rescued from a fire as a toddler and brought back to Paradise Island where she was adopted by the Queen and raised as Diana's beloved sister]]? No? That's because in creating Wonder Girl as a seperate character and fleshing her out these things had to be added in retroactively.

* SewerGator: The {{ComicBook/Huntress}} tracks down a baby trafficking villain called [[http://www.comicvine.com/earthworm/4005-57745/ Earthworm]] in the Gotham sewers. He uses his [[PestController control over the animals in the sewers]] to [[http://siskoid.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/whos-earthworm.html make some alligators attack her]].

* RealMenCook: When the Earth-One Wonder Woman ends up at the Earth-Two Wondy's house for a meal she discovers that ComicBook/SteveTrevor cooks the meals at their happy home, this Steve Trevor being the WWII hero to whom the original is Wonder Woman married.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: After their first encounter Nikos Aegeus fled to Olympus and was gifted the knives of Vulcan, which can cut anything, by a benefactor there. He stabs ComicBook/SteveTrevor with one and manages to cut Diana's indestructible lasso, but is disarmed in short order.

* InTheBack: Nikos Aegeus steps out from behind a pillar and stabs an unprepared and unaware ComicBook/SteveTrevor in the back when Steve turns back towards Diana as he is heading into work.

* WeddingFinale: Diana and ComicBook/SteveTrevor get married in the final issue, which took place right before ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' permanently altered the multiverse.