Cover: Rodney Ramos & Harry Peter

The Wonder Woman Chronicles #1

May 2010 · DC · 17.99 USD; 22.99 CAD

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About this Collection

This volume collects the earliest Wonder Woman stories from her debut in 1941, reprinting the character's first appearances in All Star Comics #8 and Sensation Comics #1, along with early tales from the Golden Age written by creator William Moulton Marston and illustrated by H.G. Peter. It showcases the original vision of the Amazon princess as a symbol of female empowerment and strength, presented in a chronological, hardcover format aimed at preserving DC's classic archive material.

Contains 14 stories

Introducing Wonder Woman

9 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Princess Diana] (introduction, origin)Mala (introduction)Queen Hippolyta [as Hippolyte] (introduction, Diana's mother, Queen of the Amazons)unnamed doctorCaptain Steve Trevor (introduction)Athena (goddess of wisdom)Aphrodite (goddess)Diana (goddess of the Moon, mention only)Hercules (flashback)Fritz (villain)von Storm (villain)

Wonder Woman Comes to America

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Steve TrevorColonel DarnellDiana Prince (Army nurse)un-named Army doctorAl Kale (a promoter)Nazi spy ring (villains, some die)

Dr. Poison

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Colonel DarnellSteve TrevorEtta CandyThe Holliday GirlsDr. Poison [Princess Maru] (villain, Nazi scientist, introduction)Colonel Adolph Schultz (villain, Gestapo agent)

A Spy in the Office

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Steve TrevorColonel DarnellEtta CandyThe Holliday GirlsLila Brown (introduction, Trevor's secretary)Eve Brown (introduction. Lila's sister)X-46 [Agent Gross] (villain, introduction)Nazi agents (villains, introduction)

School for Spies

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Enid Harper (death)Etta CandyThe Holliday GirlsHippolyteSteve TrevorColonel DarnellEve BrownCarla SwansonBrenda LeeBaroness Paula von Gunther (villain, introduction)Sigfried (villain, Gunther's butler)Henkle (villain)

Wonder Woman versus the Saboteurs

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Ensign Martin (introduction)Admiral FunstonDr. Sands (submarine inventor)Colonel DarnellSteve TrevorEtta Candythe Holliday Girlsthe Nazis (villains, saboteurs)

Summons to Paradise

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Queen HippolyteMalaThe Amazons [Metalaothers unnamed] (introduction for all)AphroditeAthenaSteve TrevorColonel DarnellLila BrownPaula von Gunther (villain)the Nazis (villains)

The Origin of Wonder Woman

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (origin re-told)Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty, introduction)Hercules (introduction)Queen Hippolyte (origin)the Amazons (origin re-told)Steve TrevorMalaColonel DarnellDr. Hellas (famed archaeologist)Athena (goddess of wisdom)Doctor Althea (Amazon doctor, introduction)Fatsis (Amazon)unnamed Japanese agent (villain, introduction)Heinrich Fritz Uber (villain, Hitler's Chief Agent, only mentioned)Mars [aka Ares] (villain, god of war)Hercules (villain)

Wonder Woman Goes to the Circus!

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Steve TrevorEtta Candythe Holliday GirlsDom Carney (trapeze artist, introduction)Ed King (circus owner, introduction)Elva King (Ed's niece, introduction)San Yan (villain, head elephant keeper of the circus, introduction)Mike Mulgoon (villain, head of Strongarm Protective Association, introduction)Mike Mulgoon (villain, introduction)Torrence "Slugger" McGee (villain, introduction)group of Burmese men (villains, circus employees, introduction for all)

Wonder Woman versus the Prison Spy Ring

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Colonel DarnellSteve Trevorunnamed prison warden (introduction)Freddy (warden's son, introduction)Mabel (warden's daughter, introduction)Captain Loyal (captured soldier, introduction, death)Heinrich (villain, introduction)Baroness Paula von Gunther (villain, death)Swipe (villain, prison guard, introduction, death)the Nazis (villains, introduction for all, many die)

The Greatest Feat of Daring in Human History!

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Etta CandyPrivate Mint Candy (Etta's brother, introduction)Steve TrevorColonel Darnellunnamed train porter (introduction)Captain Diaz (introduction)unnamed President of the Corrida (introduction)Pancho (villain, informant, introduction, death)Pepita Valdez (villain, bullfighter, introduction, reforms)Japanese spies (villains, introduction for all, some die)

The Milk Swindle

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Colonel DarnellSteve TrevorEtta CandyThe Holliday GirlsNurse ByrnesMrs. LansingPaula von Gunther (villain)Alphonso de Gyppo (villain, introduction)Slug (villain, introduction)

Department Store Perfidy

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Colonel DarnellSteve TrevorEtta CandyThe Holliday GirlsGloria Bullfinch (department store owner, introduction)HelenMollyBeth (co-worker of Diana Prince)Guigi Del Slimo (villain, fortune hunter)Mr. Googins (villain, manager of a department store)

The Return of Diana Prince

13 pp · Superhero

Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Diana Prince WhiteDan White (Diana's husband, introduction)the White's un-named babySteve TrevorEtta CandyThe Holliday GirlsGeneral HardThe World Peace Society [Agent XDr. I. M. Cue [Togo Ku]] (villains, introduction for all)