DC Comics Reprints from the 1960s, 70s and 80s: Wonder Woman Part I

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Wonder Woman Part I

The first volume of Wonder Woman: The Amazon Princess Archives was recently published. Issues 98 to 110 of the Wonder Woman comic are reprinted, a total of 23 stories. All were recently reprinted in B&W in Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman 1 (2007). But eleven of the stories had already been reprinted in the 1960s and 70s in various comics.

The earliest is "Secret Origin of Wonder Woman" from Wonder Woman 105 (April 1959), reprinted in Secret Origins (1961). This 80 page giant was also published as a stand alone replica edition in 1998 and as part of a hardcover collection in 2012.

The story was only two years old when used in the Secret Origins collection. The origin was first seen in Wonder Woman 1 (1942) but DC was not reprinting stories from that era in the early 1960s. The tag line "A Wonder Girl Story" has been removed from the reprint.