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From Marvel to DC, Geeks explores the popular and independant comic titles in the geek universe.
1965
As we tackle 1965 please feel free to listen to this content on the Lady Comic Book History Podcast. Donna Troy was one of the many results from the publication of Seduction of the Innocent. DC comics as trying to find a way to portray Wonder Woman but in a way that was acceptable to parents, one of the ways this was a achieved was by have the Amazonian Princess appear side by side with younger versions of herself creating a wonder family, by issue #123 of Wonder Woman in July of 1961 the label Impossible Tale was not included in most of these stories in spite of that being the series title. In this particular issue the character of Wonder Girl is referred to as if she is an entity entirely different from Diana, as if she is her own character. Wonder Woman’s younger sister Wonder Girl made her first appearance outside the Wonder Woman book in the Brave and the Bold issue #60 in July of 1965 as a member of the Junior Justice League called the Teen Titans. Writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gil Kane created an origin for Wonder Girl in Teen Titans issue #22 in July and August of 1969, this story established Wonder Girl’s origins as an orphan who was rescued by Wonder Woman from an apartment building fire. In 1969 she dons a new costume and adopts the secret identity Donna Troy. Wolfman paired up with George Perez to revive the series in 1980 as The New Teen Titans and in January of 1984 Donna Troy got an expansion on her origin story titled “Who is Donna Troy”. We find out about her parents and more about the fire she was rescued from, Donna gets married to Terry Long in Tales of the Teen Titans issue #50 in February of 1985. Crisis of course rewrote the history of nearly every major DC character entirely unnecessarily. And Donna’s origin was retconned to fit the new continuity by severing her ties with the amazons. She did get a new storyline to rediscover her origins, god I hate DC sometimes, titled Who is Wonder Girl? Featured in the pages of The New Titans issues #50-54 in December of 1988 to March of 1989. Donna Troy was also involved in one of the world’s dumbest and most ridiculous storylines and I am not sorry at all about introducing this like that, Titans Hunt appeared in the New Titans Annual #7 in 1991 where Donna discovers that she is pregnant, a group called the Team Titans appear intent on killing her as they are from the future, Donna’s son is born, instantly ages himself, kills his mother, and becomes a dictator known as Lord Chaos...which is why the Team Titans are there to kill Donna before he is born. Donna ends up giving birth and naming him Robert and to prevent him from becoming Lord Chaos she sacrifices her powers and becomes a normal human. Her origin was of course retconned again in the late 90s where she was originally created by an Amazon sorceress as a magical duplicate of young Princess Diana, she was kidnapped by the Dark Angel Dark Angel cursed Donna to live endless lives that were characterized by suffering, her life would restart and her past was erased from the world’s memory when she was at her lowest (Quite similar to the curse placed upon Hawkman and Hawkgirl) She was of course saved from this eternal fate by her friends and after that she returned to Themyscira and was coronated as the second princess of paradise island.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
Jean Grey
It is time! We finally get to talk about one of the most well known comic heroes possibly of all time, the powerful and lovely Jean Grey, and as always if you’d like to hear the content instead of reading it please check out the Lady Comic Book History Podcast wherever it is that you do your podcast listening.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
1963
As we dive into what 1963 looked like for women in comics I’d like to say that Jean Grey obviously warrants her own article so she will not be included in this one, and of course if you are more interested in hearing this content please check out the Lady Comic Book History Podcast.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
1958-1960
Today we are rounding out the 50s and beginning the 60s. We have some very special ladies to talk about today, some more recognizable than others. This is an exceptionally long one so if you’d rather listen please check out the Lady Comic Book History Podcast.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
1946-1948
This article marks the end of the Golden Age of comics, we’ve covered the Platinum Age with Sheena through the Golden Age and we are down to our last 3 characters. And of course if you would rather hear this rant then listen to it please check out the Lady Comic Book History Podcast.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks