Using a " Purple Ray", Princess Diana nursed him back to health and fell in love with him. In Wonder Woman's origin story, Steve Trevor, an intelligence officer in the United States Army, crashed his plane on Paradise Island, the Amazons' isolated homeland. Peter penciled the book in a simplistic yet easily identifiable style.Īrmed with bulletproof bracelets, a magic lasso, and Amazonian training, Wonder Woman was the archetype of Marston's perfect woman. William Moulton Marston was credited with writing all of the Wonder Woman stories however, later in life, he hired assistant Joye Hummel to ghostwrite stories for him. Wonder Woman took her place beside the extant superheroines or antiheroines Fantomah, the Black Widow, the Invisible Scarlet O'Neil, and Canada's Nelvana of the Northern Lights. Following this debut, she was featured in Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942), and six months later appeared in her own comic book series (Summer 1942). Wonder Woman was introduced in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941), during the era known to comics historians as the " Golden Age of Comic Books". Wonder Woman's first cover, Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942)
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