DC continues to make efforts to round out the mythos of its characters, this time focusing on a non-Superman related one. In Wonder Woman #107, they give the newly introduced Wonder Girl her costume and she meets her first non-Amazonian supporting character: Mer-Boy. After Wonder Girl studies herself in the future using a “Time and […]
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In Wonder Woman #105 (Feb 1959), the writers revised the origin story of Wonder Woman and decided to start telling tales of Wonder Woman as a young teen, Wonder Girl. Much like Superboy, Wonder Girl started out as another famous-superhero-as-a-teen and then became popular enough that DC weaved that character into the mainstream timeline. The […]
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In Wonder Woman #23 (March 1947), Queen Hippolyta shows what amounts to be a “home movie” of Diana as a seven-year old girl who bests alien invaders and rescues Amazons. This is the first appearance of Wonder Girl. Versions of Wonder Woman at various young ages become a popular story-telling device in the pages of […]
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