I spend a year in South America -- and when I come home -- I find out YOU'VE taken my place! Explain THAT, you spy! 
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"
WW goes back to Paradise Island to repair her bracelets, Hyppolite 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 WW borrowed. WW explains her whole life story and the way she got Prince’s identity, but in the end she erases her memory 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 martial arts and his mission is to kill General MacArthur.
Appearing in "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman"
Featured Characters:
- Wonder Woman (Origin)
Supporting Characters:
- 2nd Lt. Diana Prince (Flashback and main story)
- Pvt. Etta Candy
- Major Steve Trevor (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- Kung (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Amazons (Flashback only)
- Mala
- Queen Hippolyte (Flashback only)
- Aphrodite (Flashback only)
- General Blankenship
- General Douglas MacArthur
- Kangas
- U.S. Soldiers and Policemen (some die)
Locations:
- Earth-Two (1943)
- Paradise Island
- United States of America
- Washington, D.C.
- Acme Corporation Factory
- Capitol Building
- Union Station
- Walter Reed Army Hospital
- Washington, D.C.
Items:
Vehicles:
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 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 much too much, most of which she was just minutes earlier told, by Diana herself.
Trivia
- In this 1970s version of Wonder Woman's WWII 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 2nd Lieutenant (a commissioned officer).
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Wonder Woman Recommended Reading
- All-Star Comics (Volume 1)
- Comic Cavalcade (Volume 1)
- JLA (Volume 1)
- Sensation Comics (Volume 1)
- Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- Superman/Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- The Legend of Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- The Legend of Wonder Woman (Volume 2)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 2)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 3)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 4)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 5)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 6)