Everyone knows the "
daughter of the Amazon Queen/hunky guy crash lands on their island/insane athletic competition to decide who gets to be an ambassador" portion of
Wonder Woman's origin.
But nobody seems to remember how she adopted the
Diana Prince secret identity--probably because that didn't happen until her
second appearance, in
Sensation Comics #1 (1942).
Steve Trevor is still in the hospital, recovering form his ordeal...
[
Editor's note: Wonder Woman got that money by performing "
bullets and bracelets" on the vaudeville stage while waiting for Steve to regain consciousness! No,
really!]
So, yes, Wonder Woman paid a woman to take her place as a nurse so she could be closer to the man she had a huge crush on, and
omigod that really,
really stalkerish, isn't it?
MAJOR STORY IDEA: Meanwhile, somewhere in South America, the
real Diana Prince is still around...until the day she decides to come home and reclaim her identity!! [
Editor's note--this is why
snell isn't allowed to write comics!]
"Wonder Woman got that money by performing "bullets and bracelets" on the vaudeville stage while waiting for Steve to regain consciousness! "
ReplyDeleteAs long as she didn't ignore any fleeing thieves passing by her as she counted it...
"MAJOR STORY IDEA: Meanwhile, somewhere in South America, the real Diana Prince is still around...until the day she decides to come home and reclaim her identity!!"
ReplyDeleteSorry, snell, but you're a bit too late on that one, by about 74 years. The real Diana Prince actually did come back, in Sensation Comics #9. (Not that it was a bad idea or anything.) I'll just let Wikipedia do the heavy lifting here:
"The real Diana Prince returned in September 1942, seeking out Wonder Woman. She asked for her identity back so that she could find work to help out her inventor husband Daniel White and their infant child. Wonder Woman agreed, and even impersonated her, so her husband would not know she was getting a job, but soon after, Nazi spies kidnapped Diana and planned to ransom her for one of her husband's inventions, an Anti-Aircraft Disintegrator Shell. Wonder Woman discovered the mastermind behind it was Dr Cue, a developer of diseases and gases. Wonder Woman was tied up and placed in an oven, but escaped after pretending to be knocked out by gas. Diana Prince was taken to where the shells were being tested and fell from the plane bound hand and foot while Cue used a parachute as the shell had disintegrated the plane. Wonder Woman rescued Diana and unmasked Cue, revealing him as Colonel Togo Ku, Chief of Japanese spies in America. Wonder Woman rescued Dan White and apprehended the spies. When the invention proved successful, Diana Prince relinquished her legal name and began referring to herself by her married name Diana White, and Wonder Woman resumed using the Diana Prince identity."