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| Wonder Woman | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Wonder_Woman_(Diana_Prince_-_circa_1940s).png) The original iteration of Wonder Woman, defeating the Axis powers' forces during World War II, on a variant cover of Wonder Woman #750 (January 2020). Art by Adam Hughes. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Flash #137 (June 1963)[a] |
| Created by | Gardner Fox (writer) Carmine Infantino (artist) [b] |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Diana Prince Trevor |
| Species | Amazon |
| Team affiliations | Justice Society of America All-Star Squadron United States Army |
| Notable aliases | Princess Diana |
| Abilities | Superhuman speed, strength, agility, and accuracy, ability to glide on wind currents |
Wonder Woman of Earth-Two is a fictional DC Comics superheroine, from the original stories by Wonder Woman writer and creator, William Moulton Marston and his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. After DC Comics established a multiverse in their published stories, which explained how heroes could have been active before (and during) World War II, retain their youth, and (subsequent) origins during the 1960s, this version of Wonder Woman was retconned merging with the original Wonder Woman who first appeared in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941).
The Earth-Two Wonder Woman was first featured as a character separate from Wonder Woman (known as Earth-One Wonder Woman) in the second Jay Garrick and Barry Allen comic.[1] Earth-Two Wonder Woman had appeared several months earlier in one comic-book panel.[2] Like most of the older Earth-Two incarnations of the DC characters, this version of Wonder Woman was semi-retired when she reappeared in later stories (with gray hair and wrinkles in later Justice League stories).[3] She appeared in many future Earth-Two features, including the multigenerational Infinity, Inc. series featuring her daughter, Fury.
She (and her version of Earth-One) was eliminated in a company-wide storyline, Crisis on Infinite Earths. After this series, she ascended to Earth-Two's Mount Olympus with her husband, General Steve Trevor, reaching godhood. Although Diana Trevor was eliminated due to the storyline's outcome, her daughter was not. Fury (Lyta Trevor) was later revealed as the child of, Helena Kosmatos, the New Earth Fury during World War II. The Earth-Two Diana Trevor reappeared in mainstream DC Earth in Infinite Crisis[4] as an apparition, fading away after speaking to her new counterpart Wonder Woman.
Another storyline, 52, was created; in its aftermath, alternate versions of the pre-crisis Earth-Two characters were introduced. Although distinct from their pre-crisis Earth-Two versions, they remained generally similar. Post-crisis Earth-Two Wonder Woman was mentioned by her daughter Fury but appears only in a picture taken before the death of Bruce Wayne and the disappearance of Superman.[5] Post-crisis Earth-2 Wonder Woman retired from her Earth's Justice Society team, and the comic suggests she is the current Queen of the Amazons; this did not happen to Earth-Two Diana Trevor before she ascended Mount Olympus to become a goddess with her husband.
A parallel character was scheduled to appear in the 2012 series Earth-2. The post-flashpoint Earth-2 Wonder Woman was the sole surviving Amazon of her source Earth, but the fate of the other Amazons of post-flashpoint Earth-2 is unknown.
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