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Wonder Woman (1942) #237

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"The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman": Wonder Woman goes back to Paradise Island to repair her bracelets. Hyppolyta is worried that she is too intertwined with Man's World, but Diana rebukes her and leaves, as she is worried about Steve who just got saved. Back in her office she is confronted by D

Quote1 I spend a year in South America -- and when I come home -- I find out YOU'VE taken my place! Explain THAT, you spy! Quote2
— Diana Prince

Wonder Woman #237 is an issue of the series Wonder Woman (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1977.

Synopsis for "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman"

Wonder Woman goes back to Paradise Island to repair her bracelets. Hyppolyta is worried that she is too intertwined with Man's World, but Diana rebukes her and leaves, as she is worried about Steve who just got saved. Back in her office she is confronted by Diana Prince, the woman whose life Wonder Woman borrowed. Wonder Woman explains her whole life story and the way she got Prince's identity, but in the end she erases her memories again… Meanwhile, the streets of Washington are menaced by wild animals that attack on sight. It turns out they are the same "creature", a Japanese man who mastered the occult and the martial arts and whose mission is to kill General MacArthur.

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  • Kung (First appearance)

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Notes

  • The origin of Wonder Woman is recapped in this issue.
  • Story continues next issue.
  • Per panel 1 on page 8, the inventor of the Amazon Purple Healing Ray was Princess Diana herself.
  • Per page 16, Diana uses her Magic Lasso to inflict amnesia on Diana Prince, who at that point knows way too much, most of which she was just told minutes earlier by Diana herself.

Trivia

  • In this 1970s version of Wonder Woman's World War II adventures, the fake Diana Prince works as a Yeoman at Army Intelligence. That is, the caption calls her a "Yeoman", which is actually the Navy's title for Diana's job, which in the Army is called "Clerk-Typist." Also, this retcon continues the decades-old discrepancy of Miss Prince being both a Clerk (an enlisted billet) and a Second Lieutenant (a commissioned officer).


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