Major Characters
In alphabetical order (with issue and date of first appearance)
| Character | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amazons | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | A nation of eternally youthful and super-powerful women. Notable Amazons include military leader Philippus, demon-fighter Nu'Bia, oracle Menalippe, would-be Wonder Woman Orana, and sorceress Magala. |
| Artemis of Bana-Mighdall | Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #90 (September 1994) | Brash champion of a lost tribe of Amazons, who successfully challenged Diana for the title of Wonder Woman and now is a major leader among the Amazons. |
| Etta Candy | Sensation Comics #2 (February 1942) | Rotund, chocolate-loving, plucky, and fearless leader of the Beeta Lambda Sorority at Holliday College, Etta Candy was Wonder Woman’s close friend and sidekick. |
| Wonder Woman #229 (March 1977) | Secretary for General Blankenship of the War Department, during the period that the comics series shifted to World War II stories to reflect the first season of the Wonder Woman TV show. | |
| Wonder Woman #272 (October 1980) | Pleasantly plump Air Force Lt. Etta Candy is secretary for Gen. Darnell and Diana Prince’s roommate. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #2 (March 1987) | Air Force officer and later agent in the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Etta is Wonder Woman’s best friend and Steve Trevor’s wife. | |
| Gods of Olympus | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | The gods of Classical Greek mythology, worshiped by the Amazons. |
| Queen Hippolyta | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | The queen of the Amazons and Wonder Woman’s mother, who fashioned Diana from clay which was given life by the gods. |
| Mala | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | Wonder Woman’s closest friend among the Amazons, Mala was the first runner-up in the contest to determine who would enter Man’s World as Wonder Woman and later became the head of the Amazons’ therapeutic center Reformation Island. |
| Paula | Sensation Comics #4 (April, 1942) | Wonder Woman's first recurring arch-nemesis, the Baroness Paula Von Gunther was a ruthless Nazi spymaster, evil scientist, and femme fatale who later became Wonder Woman’s close friend and chief Amazon scientist. |
| General Phil Darnell | Sensation Comics #3 (March 1942) | Col. (later Gen.) Darnell supervised Steve Trevor’s work at Military Intelligence and hired Diana Prince as his secretary. |
| Wonder Woman #272 (October 1980) | Head of the Air Force’s Special Assignments Branch, tasked with intervening in crises before they develop. | |
| Steve Trevor | All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) | An intelligence officer in the United States Army during World War II whose plane crashed in the isolated homeland of the Amazons, Capt. (later Major) Trevor became the paramour of Wonder Woman while, unbeknownst to him, working at U.S. Military Intelligence alongside Wonder Woman in her secret identity, Diana Prince. |
| Wonder Woman #223 (April–May 1976) | After Steve was killed by one of Dr. Cyber’s henchmen, he was brought back to life by the goddess Aphrodite and used in a test of Wonder Woman’s readiness to return to active superheroics following her months without superpowers and bout with amnesia. He was allowed to remain alive and assumed a new identity, spy Steve Howard. It was later revealed that Trevor had been reanimated by being fused with the life force of the god Eros. | |
| Wonder Woman #270 (August 1980) | An Air Force colonel piloting an experimental aircraft that penetrated the multiversal barriers to crashland outside of Paradise Island, Steve was integrated into life on Earth-One when Aphrodite unleashed the Mists of Nepenthe to alter the world’s memories so that he would be accepted as the Steve Trevor of that universe. He served as an intelligence agent within the Air Force’s Special Assignments Branch under the direction of Gen. Darnell, unknowingly working alongside Wonder Woman in her secret identity of Capt. (later Maj.) Diana Prince. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #2 (March 1987) | An Air Force officer and war veteran, Steve Trevor was also the son of Diana Trevor, aviatrix who crashed onto the Amazons’ island home and died in a battle to save the Amazons. Later designated Deputy Secretary of Defense and then leader of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, Trevor married Etta Candy and is Diana’s close friend. | |
| Wonder Girl | Wonder Woman #105 (1958) | Wonder Woman as a teen. |
| The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965) | Wonder Woman’s younger sister, who lives in Man’s World as Donna Troy. | |
| Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #105 (January 1996) | Cassandra “Cassie” Sandsmark is the teenage daughter of museum director Helena Sandsmark and who became Wonder Girl to be Wonder Woman’s sidekick. |
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