History ComicBook / WonderWomanCharlesMoulton

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The outpost city of Venturia essentially fell apart during Queen Clea's reign, prompting her attack on nearby Aurania. Later exiled from Venturia, she tried to become Queen of [[ComicBook/TheWarlordDC Skartaris]], nearly destroying that country in the process.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Every member of Villainy Inc is driven by one of the SevenDeadlySins ([[DrivenByEnvy Envy]]-ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, Gluttony-Zara, Greed-Snowman, Lust-Clea, Pride-Dr. Poison, Sloth-Eviless, [[UnstoppableRage Wrath]]-Giganta), except Hypnota whose turn to villainy was driven by brain damage, paranoia, enjoyment out manipulating others, a desire for revenge and a ''bit'' of greed.

Charles Moulton was a pen name used by Wonder Woman creator Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston and his assistant Joye Murchison, who was the second writer for Wonder Woman and first woman writer but was not credited separately from Marston even on issues where he did none of the writing. Their writing paired with Harry G. Peter's art marks the book's unmistakable [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] era. Issue 29 was Peter on his own after Marston's death.

The first 29 issues of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', Franchise/WonderWoman's first self titled series, running from 1942 to 1948 and ending with the death of Wonder Woman creator Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston.

* AcePilot: ComicBook/SteveTrevor and Diana are both excellent pilots, and get to show off their skills on numerous occasions.

* AllWomenAreLustful: Di becomes interested in ComicBook/SteveTrevor after helping treat his injuries while he was unconscious and getting a good eyeful, the Holliday Girls are notorious for being boy crazy, and pretty much every female villain encountered pulls some variation of IHaveYouNowMyPretty or BatheHerAndBringHerToMe on Steve and other men. Then there's Marya, the eight-foot-tall mountain woman, who considers American men to be a "tease" since when she returns an admirer's interest they are not quite ready for what she wants them to do--which is implied but not outright stated to involve multiple men at once--and seems to be interested in women as well given her starry eyed interactions with Di.

* BoundAndGagged: Diana and/or ComicBook/SteveTrevor end up trussed up by the villains at least once an issue. On the rare occasion neither of them are tied up someone else, usually the villain, will be.

* ContagiousPowers: The Golden Age/Earth-Two Amazons were humans whose powers (save immortality while on Paradise Island) were all Enlightenment Superpowers any human could attain with enough training. This meant that Diana was able to train ComicBook/SteveTrevor and ComicBook/EttaCandy to resist telepathic attacks and Etta, Paula and a handful of Holliday Girls like Bobby and Glamora were able to achieve low-level Super Strength through Amazonian training. In the end, after being together for decades, she and Steve even found a way to make him stop aging.

** When taken captive by a WWIII conspirator and forced to lie to ComicBook/SteveTrevor that she's going with the woman willingly Diana Prince taps her foot, in Morse code letting Steve know what's really happening so that he can follow the women to the conspiracy group's headquarters and mount a rescue.

* ElectronicTelepathy: Diana had a "mental radio" that allowed her to communicate telepathically with the Amazons on Paradise Island. Di could make "calls" without a radio due to her own mild telepathy, but with the radio even normal humans like Etta Candy and ComicBook/SteveTrevor could use telepathic communications, so long as whoever they were contacting picked up on their own mental radio.

* LandOfFaerie: In "In Shamrock Land" Diana, ComicBook/SteveTrevor and Etta find themselves in a land populated by European fey who'd followed and accompanied their associated humans to the Americas after Etta falls down the hole at the base of a tree chasing a {{leprechaun}}. They're mostly benevolent tricksters, but do not think like humans.

* TheMole: U.S. Army Intelligence often seems to be the service from which CTU inherited its vetting procedures. ComicBook/SteveTrevor goes through a number of secretaries, almost all of whom turn out to be moles working for the bad guys. (Diana Prince didn't work for Trevor, but for his boss, Colonel Darnell. Though come to think of it, ''Diana herself'' was a mole, albeit for America's friendly ally, Paradise Island.)

* TorchesAndPitchforks: Giganta rallies the "peasant"s to rise up and attack Queen Darla and King Aros' palace while Wonder Woman, ComicBook/SteveTrevor and the Holliday Girls are visiting. When the rebels tie up the Queen to kill her Giganta has them include Wonder Woman with the intent that they're both assassinated.

* AnimateInanimateObject: "The Return From the Dead": Dr. Psycho uses several of the objects in the Dough Museum to form semi-illusionary puppets to attack the Holliday Girls and later ComicBook/SteveTrevor and Diana.

* BackToBackBadasses: When Queen Clea orders ComicBook/SteveTrevor killed for entertainment by giving him a sword to fight three giant boars and then having her archers perched around the edge of the arena should he manage to survive Di jumps in and blocks the arrows aimed at his back while he lifts the boar he'd managed to kill to block the first volley aimed at his front before they fight the Atlanteans themselves.

* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: Queen Clea has ComicBook/SteveTrevor stripped, cleaned up, [[GoGoEnslavement dressed in a loincloth]] and brought before her...to face some of her monsters in the arena for her entertainment. Despite the heavy BDSM overtones this series was aimed at ''children'' and thus is still age appropriate.

* DirtyCoward: Prof. Ainchent does fairly well with all the spookiness in King Aknaten's tomb, until Wonder Woman, Etta Candy, Bobby Strong and Glamora Treat all fall down a trap door, at which point he essentially declares, "whelp they're dead", runs all the way back to his plane and flies back to America before even bothering to make a report. ComicBook/SteveTrevor is not impressed and forces the professor to show him exactly where the cursed tomb is.

* AsteroidThicket: The Saturnians are building a road through the solar system using tightly packed asteroids, which Diana points out is impossible and makes no sense. Once she arrives at Saturn she discovers they're doing so anyway and she and ComicBook/SteveTrevor destroy the space road which was being built using conscripted slave labor and was intended to be part of Saturn's invasion of earth.

* TheUnfought: After a great deal of build up, fighting many of his underlings, and developing the Saturnian Emperor as someone whose court [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership values one's ability to fight in order for advancement]] Diana crashes through the window of his throne room ready to fight him as he is about to have a defiant ComicBook/SteveTrevor and ComicBook/EttaCandy executed before him. The Emperor immediately proposes a truce without even getting out of his chair and Di doesn't get to lay a finger on him. His agents then continue to be a menace using loopholes in the text of the truce while making sure their actions cannot be conclusively traced back to him.