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There are fewer characters with a lot more messed up backstories than question woman considering that she wasn’t meant to exist at all.
Wonder Girl: Adventures of a teen Titan
In an attempt to freshen question lady in the late 1950s, writer/editor Robert Kanigher retold her origin, omitting the developed from clay aspect, as well as fleshed out her upbringing. WW #105, thought about by some as Diana’s very first Silver Age appearance, showed her early days as a child as well as teen. When sales ticked up, Kanigher kept returning to tell stories of question lady as a tot as well as a teen, going so far as to tell impossible Tales where all three incarnations might team up. The whimsical tales were all illustrated with appeal by Ross Andru as well as Mike Esposito.
A few years later, a laid-back team-up of Robin, youngster Flash, as well as Aqualad in The take on as well as the strong #54 offered well sufficient that the editors saw potential. So, they formalized the group in problem #60 however felt the teen Titans needed a young teen heroine. Editor George Kashdan as well as writer Bob Haney looked with the line as well as after Mort Weisinger likely growled about overexposing Supergirl, Haney found question woman on the cover of question Woman.
Without reading the stories or asking Kanigher for details, he made her a genuine new character as well as so a legend was born.
The fascinating thing is that with the years, question woman ended up being one of DC’s a lot of prominent heroines in spite of her contradictory backstories as well as has stayed a fixture not only in comics however television as well as animation. With all things Wonder-ful now in vogue thanks to the Patty Jenkins-directed question lady coming next month, DC is providing up question Girl: Adventures of a teen Titan, a veritable potpourri of adventures with the years.
The take on as well as the strong #60
The collection includes stories from question lady #105 (April 1958), The take on as well as the strong #60 (July 1965), teen Titans #22 (July-August 1969), experience Comics #461 (Jan.-Feb. 1979), question lady #105 (Jan. 1996) as well as #113 (Sept. 1996), question Woman: Donna Troy (1998), as well as question woman #1 (Nov. 2007).
A teen Diana was nothing new in 1958 considering that her creator, William Moulton Marston, featured her in question lady #23 (May/June 1947). However, the Titan was her own person without trick identity, unless you count calling her “Wonder Chick” as an change ego. Marv Wolfman, comics fan turned expert writer, wished to address the conundrum and, with Gil Kane, provided her a past in teen Titans #22. now we understand she is Donna Troy, an orphan rescued from a terminate by question lady as well as increased on Paradise Island. Wolfman would revisit this origin in the now traditional “Who is Donna Troy?” story in new teen Titans #38, oddly not included in the collection. Heck, her wedding event from NTT #50 must be here.
Donna Troy was the heart as well as spirit of the team, everyone’s friend, as well as maybe the well-adjusted member in spite of her chaotic as well as contradictory backstory, which was continuously changed, modified, as well as changed with the years.
Adventure Comics #461
Interestingly, question lady as well as question woman didn’t team up as well commonly so one unusual story is pulled from Diana’s function in experience Comics #461. The tale from Jack C. Harris as well as Jack Abel has them handle the old foe, Headmaster Mind.
In time, Donna grew up, married, lost her baby, her identity as well as other things, briefly operating as Troia, before being an adventurer named Donna Tory. It is during this period that writer/penciller Phil Jimenez used visitors a great sense of her self in the one-shot question Woman: Donna Troy, a part of 1998’s Girlfrenzy event.
Wonder lady #113
When Donna was operating as Troia, there was a wish for a new question woman so writer/artist John Byrne made a decision to turn Cassie Sandsmark, child of Dr. Helena Sandsmark, into the second question Girl. We very first satisfy her in the story from question lady #105 as well as then see her don a geeky black wig as well as ended up being question woman in the story from WW #113. It is this plucky heroine who joins young Justice as well as later the revived teen Titans as well as becomes Conner (Superboy) Kent’s enthusiast before his death.
Cassie likewise ultimately learns she is a demigod with Zeus having bedded Dr. Sandsmark. As a result, she is provided a lightning-emitting lasso that expels Zeus’s lightning. later she loses that as well as gains a different set of powers from Ares when she agrees to ended up being his champion.
Wonder woman #1
After truth was tinkered with by means of new 52 as well as Rebirth, Cassie is a thief with super-powered bracelets. In time, we discover the teen Titan is question Woman’s niece as well as Zeus’s granddaughter. Her daddy turns out to be Lennox Sandsmark, Diana’s half-brother, one more kid of Zeus. It is this incarnation of the character that earned her own miniseries in 2007, handling the aftermath of Amazons Attack. We get only the very first chapter here, where she adopts the identity of Drusilla (more on that in a moment) as well as goes after some leftover mystical beasts in a story from J. Torres as well as Sanford Green.
Missing from the collection is a tale featuring Drusilla, produced by writer/artist Mike Sekowsky as well as seen only in question lady #182 to #184 (1969). She was tasked by Hippolyta to traverse the dimensions to alert the then-depowered Diana that Ares had discovered the relocated Paradise Island as well as was endangering all unless the queen exposed the trick of transdimensional travel. This character was customized by ABC to turn her into question woman for the TV series as well as provided Debra Winger a job.
As with any type of such collection, there are stories visitors may suggest belong however overall, this must provide people a great feel for question Girl’s development with a few of comics’ finest as well as brightest talents doing the heavy lifting.
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Classic covers from the Grand Comics Database.