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 Characters who have associated with the name "Wonder Girl":Wonder Woman at the center, and continuing clockwise to left areDonna Troy,Cassandra Sandsmark, andYara Flor on the cover toWonder Woman (vol. 6) #17 (December 2024). Art byDavid Nakayama. | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
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| Created by | Robert Kanigher |
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| Wonder Girl | |
 | Wonder Girl #1 (November 2007) Featuring the Cassie Sandsmark version of the character. Art by Sanford Greene and Nathan Massengill. |
| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | November 2007 – April 2008 |
| Number of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) | Donna Troy & Cassandra Sandsmark |
Wonder Girl is the alias of multiplesuperheroines featured incomic books published byDC Comics. They are associated with the superheroineWonder Woman and possessAmazonian powers.
The Wonder Girl alias was first used for a teenage version of Wonder Woman inWonder Woman #105 (April 1959). An original Wonder Girl, later namedDonna Troy, debuted inThe Brave and the Bold #60 (June/July 1965) and is a founding member of theTeen Titans.Cassie Sandsmark, the next Wonder Girl and a member ofYoung Justice and the Teen Titans, made her debut inWonder Woman (vol. 2) #105 (January 1996). Future Wonder WomanYara Flor, who debuted inDark Nights: Death Metal #7 (January 2021), is the most recent Wonder Girl.
An original version of Wonder Girl namedDrusilla appeared in theWonder Woman television series, played byDebra Winger. Donna Troy made her live adaptation debut in theDC Universe/HBO Max seriesTitans, played byConor Leslie.
A teen-aged Princess Diana of theAmazons first appeared in abackstory inWonder Woman #23 (May/June 1947), written byWilliam Moulton Marston and designed by H.G. Peter.[1]
Wonder Girl first appeared inThe Secret Origin of Wonder Woman, written and edited byRobert Kanigher, inWonder Woman #105 (April 1959). In this revisedSilver Age origin, it is established that Diana had in fact not been created from clay, but had been born before the Amazons settled onParadise Island. Following this issue were several Wonder Girl adventures, and years later an additional character, Wonder Tot—Wonder Woman as atoddler—was also featured. Kanigher restored the character's made-from-clay origin in 1966.
FromWonder Woman #124 (August 1961) onward, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Tot frequently appeared together in stories that were labeled "impossible tales", presented as films made by Wonder Woman's mother,Queen Hippolyta, who had the power to splice together films of herself and Diana at different ages. The characters of Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman then began to diverge, asBob Haney wrote Wonder Girl stories that took place in the same time period as those of Wonder Woman.
The last significant appearance of Wonder Woman as a child Wonder Girl was in November 1965. In the tongue-in-cheekWonder Woman #158, Kanigher broke thefourth wall by having Wonder Girl and the rest of the supporting cast he had created (Wonder Tot, the Glop, Bird-Boy, Mer-Boy, Birdman, and Manno) come to the office of a "certain" editor. Protested by fans for ruining the character, Kanigher tells Wonder Girl that he does love her, along with all of his other daughters, such asBlack Canary,Star Sapphire, andHarlequin. With mounting pressure, Kanigher has no choice but to declare herretconned. Wonder Girl stoically accepts her fate as she and the others turn into drawings on Kanigher's desk. Soon after, Wonder Woman enters and is shocked to see her younger self "killed".
Regardless, Diana as a child Wonder Girl was never completely rejected. Reprints of Wonder Girl stories were occasionally included in the comic book. In issue #200, Wonder Woman, in her Diana Prince identity, is shown walking past children at play whereon she flashes back to when she was a fourteen-year-old Wonder Girl with a crush on Mer-Boy.
While the characters of Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were diverging, Haney was developing a new group of junior superheroes, whose first informal appearance featured a team-up ofRobin (Dick Grayson),Kid Flash (Wally West), andAqualad (Garth). During their next appearance inThe Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965), they were dubbed theTeen Titans and joined by Wonder Girl, pictured in the same frame as Wonder Woman and calling Hippolyta "mother".[2]
Wonder Girl and the other Teen Titans were then featured inShowcase #59 (December 1965) before beingspun off into their own series withTeen Titans #1 (February 1966). With the character called only Wonder Girl, or "Wonder Chick" by her teammates, her status as either the younger Wonder Woman displaced in the timeline or another character altogether is not explained untilTeen Titans #22 (August 1969).[3] In a story byMarv Wolfman andGil Kane, it is established that Wonder Girl is a non-Amazon orphan, rescued by Wonder Woman from an apartment building fire. Unable to find any parents or family, Wonder Woman brings the child to Paradise Island, where she is eventually given Amazon powers by thePurple Ray. The story ends with Wonder Girl wearing a new costume and hairstyle, adopting thesecret identity Donna Troy.
As special event comics likeCrisis on Infinite Earths andInfinite Crisis have rewritten character histories, the origin of Donna Troy has been revised several times. In brief, those origins are as follows:
Cassie Sandsmark is the granddaughter ofZeus. She has been a member of bothYoung Justice and the Teen Titans. Initially, her powers were derived from ancient Greek magical artifacts. Later, Zeus granted her the boon of actual powers. Her powers are similar to Wonder Woman's, though she carries a lasso that expels Zeus'slightning, which was given to her by her father,Ares, the Greek god of war. When the Greek gods left the mortal plane duringInfinite Crisis, Zeus stripped Cassie of her powers. However, she was granted powers by Ares in exchange for becoming his champion.
AfterSuperboy's death, she quit the Titans for a time to be an independent vigilante. She was mourning the loss of her lover, Superboy, and bitter from the abandonment byRobin and Wonder Woman over the following year. She later rejoined the group after a battle with theBrotherhood of Evil and the return ofCyborg. She is close friends with fellow heroSupergirl. She later didn't need anyone to empower her as she grew stronger herself.
Yara Flor is the daughter of an Amazon and a Brazilian river god, who becomes the defender of the Esquecida Amazon tribe. The character debuted in January 2021 as part of DC Comic's "Future State" storyline, in which she is shown to be the Wonder Woman of the future.[10][11] In the present day DC Comics narrative, Yara is introduced as part of theInfinite Frontier publishing event. She is unaware of her Amazon heritage, but, responding to a prophecy, theOlympian Gods and theAmazons ofThemiscyra,Bana-Mighdall, and a third tribe in the Amazon rainforest separately begin to converge on her location as she makes a trip from the US to Brazil, the country of her birth. Hippolyta sends Wonder GirlCassie Sandsmark to protect Yara, where she encountersArtemis of Bana-Mighdall.
As an Amazon-Guarani demigoddess, Yara inherits abilities the average Amazon does not. Yara has superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, durability, agility and senses. Yara also has the ability of hydrokinesis (manipulating water), which she discovers after she gets her goldenbolas. Yara also rides a white winged horse from Olympus named Jerry.
According to the character's creator,Joëlle Jones, Yara's appearance was inspired by Brazilian model Suyane Moreira.[12]
| Title | Material collected | Pages | Publication date | ISBN |
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| Teen Titans Spotlight: Wonder Girl | Wonder Girl (vol. 1) #1–6. | 144 | July 9, 2008 | 978-1401218300 |
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| Wonder Girl: Adventures of a Teen Titan | Wonder Girl (vol. 2) #1,Adventure Comics (vol. 1) #461,GirlFrenzy! Wonder Woman: Donna Troy #1,Teen Titans (vol. 1) #22,The Brave and the Bold (vol. 1) #60,Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #105, andWonder Woman (vol. 2) #105, 113. | 160 | August 30, 2017 | 978-1401271657 |
| Volume 3 | ||||
| Wonder Girl: Homecoming | Wonder Girl (vol. 3) #1–7,Wonder Girl 2022 Annual #1, andFuture State: Wonder Woman #1–2. | 272 | November 8, 2022 | 978-1779516664 |
Both Donna and Cassie have a recurring roles in theTiny Titans comic by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani. The two are depicted as cousins, with the Wonder Girl alias given to Donna and Cassie being referred to by her first name.[13]
InSuperman & Batman: Generations , Wonder Girl first appears in 1953 as a "mystic projection" to take Wonder Woman's place while Diana gives birth. She finds a woundedSteve Trevor and takes him back to Paradise Island, but despite being subjected to the Purple Power Ray, he dies of his wounds, leaving Diana to raise their daughter, Stephanie, alone.
In 1964, Stephanie (or "Stevie") decides to go out on her own as Wonder Girl. She shares a link withSupergirl (Kara Kent), as they were born at the same time. Years later, she becomes the new Wonder Woman. Her outfit is pretty much the same as her mother's, except that she does not possess either the tiara or the Magic Lasso ofAphrodite, instead possessing the winged sandals ofHermes. She also wears a mask. When she becomes the new Wonder Woman, she adds a cape to the ensemble. InSuperman & Batman: Generations , she is killed byDarkseid.
In theDC Comics Bombshells universe, Wonder Girl is not a single person, but rather a team of youngAsian-American girls who are empowered by the mystical artifacts formerly used by Wonder Woman. The Wonder Girls consist of Donna Troy (aNisei Japanese-American), Cassie Sandsmark (a mixed-race girl of partial Japanese heritage), Yuki and Yuri Katsura, andEmily Sung.[14]
In theAmalgam Universe, PrincessOroro of Themyscira stands as an alternative version of Wonder Girl, creates byRon Marz,Claudio Castellini, andDan Jurgens. The character combining the powers and personas of Marvel's Storm and DC's Wonder Woman. She first appeared inMarvel vs. DC #3 (1996) on Earth-9602, and her character was a powerful synthesis of the two heroines.[15]
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