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Wonder Woman began her existence as a special addition to the December-January, 1941 issue of All Star Comics. In the nine page center spread, the origin of Wonder Woman was told, which luckily was recieved well, leading the way for a comic book that would feature the Amazon Princess.

January 1942 saw Wonder Woman in Sensation Comics number one, with a FULL version of her origin and her first adventure. By Summer 1942, Wonder Woman was a comic book unto itself, and is the only comic book featuring a woman to have been published without fail for fifty-five years.

Wonder Woman was aided by the Holliday Girls, lead by the sweet addicted Etta Candy, who were a sorority that would help Wonder Woman in a time of emergency, or vice versa. Etta was the only member of the Holliday Girls who stood out, with her less than svelte body and propensity of saying 'Woo-woo' all the time. Amazingly enough, Etta was the only other character than Steve and Diana herself who has managed to exist for the full run of the title.

During this same early period, Wonder Woman joined the Justice Society as its first female member. The Justice Society was the first super-team, featured in All Star Comics, and times being what they were, Wonder Woman, who was the strongest among them, was the secretary of the JSA.

From her inception, Wonder Woman was not out to just stop criminals, but to reform them. On a small island off Paradise Island was Transformation Island, a rehabilitation complex created by the Amazons to house and reform criminals.

Armed with her bulletproof bracelets, magic lasso, and her amazonian training, Princess Diana was the archetype of the perfect woman from the mind of her creator, William Moulton Marston. She was beautiful, intelligent, strong, but still possessed a soft side. At that time, her powers came from 'Amazon Concentration,' not as a gift from the gods.

Wonder Woman's magic lasso was supposedly forged from the Magic Girdle of Aphrodite, which Queen Hippolyta(Wonder Woman's) mother was bequeathed by the Goddess. Hephastateus borrowed the belt, removed links from it, and that is where the magic lasso came from. It was unbreakeable, infinitely stretchable, and could make all who are encircled in it tell the truth.

In 1947, William Moulton Marston died, leaving Wonder Woman to be written by Robert Kanigher. While H.G. Peter still illustrated the stories, the book lost a bit of its former luster, with Wonder Woman becoming less of a feminist and more of an American heroine. H.G. Peter remained on the title until #97, from different reports either dying while completing it, or directly after. By myself and other Golden Age devotees, both Peter and Marston are missed and remembered for their unique and memorable work.

Wonder Woman took many changes through the mid-fifties and throughout the sixties. H.G. Peter, the original artist on Wonder Woman died completing issue #97, taking all of the original feel of the book away.

Wonder Woman's origin was revamped with her powers being derived from a combination of the Greek and Roman deities. Wonder Woman's earrings provided her with air when she traveled in outer space, her Invisible Plane metamorphed into an Invisible Jet, and her bracelets could send and recieve messages from Paradise Island.

During this time, Wonder Woman also recieved a protege: Wonder Girl. Wonder Girl was Donna Troy, an orphan that Wonder Woman saved from a burning building. By using the Purple Ray, which Wonder Woman created, Donna recieved the powers of an Amazon, and with an ersatz version of Wonder Woman's costume, became Wonder Girl

At the end of the 60's, Wonder Woman surrendered her powers to remain in 'Man's World' rather than accompany her fellow Amazons into another dimension so they could 'restore their magick.

Diana Prince, now no longer Wonder Woman had a new mentor: I Ching. The book became a bit like the show Kung-Fu with Diana taking the role of Grasshopper. She was mod, as was the fashion of the time and ran a boutique. This lasted for two years, with Wonder Woman being restored to her powers and costume in the early 70's.

In the midst of this stupid depowering story line, Steve Trevor had been killed by Wonder Woman's then arch-nemesis, Dr. Cyber. Steve was resurrected, killed, then later resurrected again as Steve Howard.

Wonder Woman fought a series of 'epic' battles through the 70's and 80's until she was finally killed during the Crisis On Infinite Earths in 1986.

In later stories, her abilities expanded. Her earrings gave her air to breathe in outer space, her Invisible Plane(Way BEFORE Jets) was givenan origin, and her tiara was found to be an unbreakable boomerang. This was all inventions and modifications made after William Moulton Marston's death.