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Wonder Woman’s First Appearance was actually in an issue of all star comics, as a teaser story Promoting Sensational Comics where she would make her full debut.

READ THE FIRST APPEARENCE HERE 

Here’s an ad from All star comics announcing Sensational Comics.
  

For her first adventure I recommend reading Secret Origins #3 (here)

Geek Factoids to Note:

• I don’t know if I’m the first person in the entire history of the Internet to point this out or not, but Wonder Woman’s original Golden Age adventures were really, really, really, really weird.

  

  

  

  

   

• Most of Wonder Woman’s stories where WWII driven making her enemies of Nazi nature.
• Wonder woman was often cited as a clear example of why comics were bad for children in the famed book Seduction of the Innocent
• Secret origins 3 also Includes the secret origin of Wildcat who also made his first appearance in Sensational comics #1 alongside the Gay ghost (yeah The gay ghost… it was the 40’s) and Mr Terrific. A renaissance man with suicidal tendencies who found in his superhero persona a will to live.
• Wonder woman, would face a gallery of villains that is mostly unknown and would be later knonw as  Villainy Inc. Cheetah, Giganta, Doctor Poison, Hypnota, Zara, Queen Clea, Blue Snow Man and Eviless

• Later Wonder woman will be the second female member to join the JSA (after Red Tornado). However, her woman status only allowed her to stay in as Secretary, meaning that the JSA will go on to their adventures, leaving wonder woman, to stay behind and sum it all up in a neat report!

• Ares is the Fist villain to be introduced along Hercules.
• Hercules would later appear as a foe in Superman and later reinvented for his own series by Jose Garcia Lopez!

  

What makes this Fun

• If you have watched the Wonder Woman TV series Pilot, you’ll find the story hasn’t changed much!
• Just watching how bondage is a common element in wonder woman, makes it an interesting read…  and specially if you are into that sort of thing.
• In Greek Mythology actually, Ares and Aphrodite were lovers…
  

  In the tale sung by the bard in the hall of Alcinous,^[17] the Sun-God Helios once spied Ares and Aphrodite enjoying each other secretly in the hall of Hephaestus, and he promptly reported the incident to Aphrodite’s Olympian consort. Hephaestus contrived to catch the couple in the act, and so he fashioned a net with which to snare the illicit lovers. At the appropriate time, this net was sprung, and trapped Ares and Aphrodite in a private embrace. But Hephaestus was not yet satisfied with his revenge — he invited the Olympian gods and goddesses to view the unfortunate pair. For the sake of modesty, the goddesses demurred, but the male gods went to witness the sight. Some commented on the beauty of Aphrodite, others remarked that they would eagerly trade places with Ares, but all mocked the two. Once the couple were loosed, Ares, embarrassed, sped away to his homeland, Thrace.^[18]

  In a much later interpolated detail, Ares put the youth Alectryon by his door to warn them of Helios’ arrival, as Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite’s infidelity if the two were discovered, but Alectryon fell asleep. Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus. Ares was furious and turned Alectryon into a rooster, which now never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.