Comic Title: Wonder Woman #1
Publisher: DC (Wonder Woman Publishing Company, Inc.)
Address: 225 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
Cover Date: Summer 1942
On Sale Date: July 22, 1942 Newsstand Date July 22, 1942
Source: House Ad, All-Star Comics #12, Page 64,
Green Lantern Quarterly #4, Page 64,
Superman #18, Page 16,
Sensation Comics #9, Page 64,
All-American Comics #42, Page IFC

Copyright Date July 18, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Sheldon Mayer

Title: (The Origin of Wonder Woman)
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (of Earth-2)

Writer: William Moulton Marston
Artist: Harry G. Peter

Reprinted In:
Secret Origins #3 (1973)
Famous First Edition F-6 (1975)
Famous First Edition F-6 [Lyle Stuart Exclusive] (1975)
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes HC (1976)
Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes SC (1976)
Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 1 HC (1998)
Millennium Edition:Wonder Woman 1 (#34) (2000)
Wonder Woman Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2010)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Wonder Woman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2018)
Wonder Woman (1942) (Facsimile Edition) #1 (2024)
Wonder Woman (1942) (Facsimile Edition) #1 [Variant A] (2024)
Wonder Woman (1942) (Facsimile Edition) #1 [Variant B] (2024)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (origin retold; last appearance in Wonder Woman #30; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in All-Star Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)
• Hippolyte (last appearance in Wonder Woman #30; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)
• Amazons (first appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman #30; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)
• Mala (last appearance in All-Star Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)
• General Darnell (Colonel; last appearance in All-Star Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)

Villain(s)

• Mars (next appearance in Wonder Woman #2)
• Hercules (last appearance in All-Star Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)

Other Character(s)

• Aphrodite (first appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman #30; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)
• An unnamed Amazon doctor (last appearance in All-Star Comics #8; next appearance in All-Star Comics #8)

Comments:
This story retells and expands upon the origin of the Amazons and Wonder Woman. Several details are different from the earlier version including: Wonder Woman gets her magic lasso before leaving Paradise Island in this story, but she originally did not receive it until the first story of Sensation Comics #6; Steve Trevor receives a promotion to Major after returning from Paradise Island, but originally he did not receive it until the first story of Sensation Comics #6; and Wonder Woman’s birth from molded clay is revealed.

This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Wonder Woman Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
To combat her rival god Ares, Aphrodite creates a race of Amazons and gives their leader Hippolyte a magic girdle to make them invincible. Ares sends Hercules to conquer the Amazons. Failing, Hercules uses trickery to steal the girdle and enslave the Amazons. Aphrodite frees them and retrieves the girdle. Then the Amazons settle on Paradise Island.

Sometime later Queen Hippolyte moulds a human child from clay. Aphrodite gives the clay girl life as Princess Diana. Diana grows into a powerful Amazon, but when Steve Trevor’s plane crashes on Paradise Island, she falls in love with him.

Diana wins a competition to determine, which Amazon will bring Trevor back to America. She leaves Paradise Island as Wonder Woman and remains there to aid the world.