DC Finest - Wonder Woman: Introducing Wonder Woman

DC Finest - Wonder Woman #1942-1943

by William Moulton Marston, H.G. Peter (Illustrator)

Discover the origins of Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman as part of DC’s major new line of collected editions!

Welcome to DC Finest, a major new publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!

This collection spotlights the origin of Wonder Woman: her arrival in Man’s World with the wounded Steve Trevor and her secret identity of Diana Prince.

Explore Wonder Woman’s heroic beginnings as she faces off against infamous villains such as Baroness Von Gunther (a recurring villain during her early adventures) and loses her strength!

Collects Wonder Woman #1-4; All-Star Comics #8; Sensation Comics #1-18; Comic Cavalcade #1-2

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Graphic Novels

528 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2025

About the author

Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen names Charles Moulton and William Marston, was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who lived with the couple in a polyamorous relationship), served as exemplars for the character and greatly influenced her creation.

He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

Reviews

[Matt Fuller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Might be the wordiest of the Golden Age comics, despite that this is worth reading for historical reasons if for nothing else. The first Wonder Woman comics are actually pretty good, you just have to suffer though many words, stereotypes, and Etta Candy the worst character in comics. Covers 1941-1943. 8/10

[Ángel Javier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Después de leer este volumen, mi admiración por el gran William Moulton Marston ha aumentado hasta alturas estratosféricas. Por supuesto, ya sabía que el buen doctor vivía en una relación poliamorosa con su esposa y su amante, y que le iba cosa mala el bondage, pero el cómo logró salirse con la suya durante tantos años guionizando unos cómics dirigidos al público infantil en los que el sadomaso y las relaciones homosexuales femeninas eran protagonistas absolutos se me escapa, y solo puede ser obra de una mente privilegiada y adelantada décadas a su tiempo. Y lo digo totalmente en serio.

Porque, vamos, estamos ante una oda al amor sumiso, al sometimiento —casi siempre consensuado— a las relaciones ama-esclava, al jugueteo erótico entre mujeres. También al pacifismo, por cierto, y a la creencia en la redención y el perdón. La malvadísima baronesa Von Gunther (me encanta esta villana) en realidad resulta ser una víctima de las circunstancias y, cosas de la vida, extraordinariamente eficaz como dominatrix; ambas cualidades la convierten en candidata ideal para que Diana la ponga de nuevo en el buen camino, tras enviarla a la silla eléctrica unas cuantas veces, eso sí... pero pelillos a la mar, una mala tarde la tiene cualquiera. ¿Y qué decir de la maravillosa Etta Candy, una mujer obesa y orgullosa de ello, capaz de plantarle cara al más pintado y de preparar las más refinadas torturas para las desgraciadas que pretenden unirse a su sororidad universitaria? Normal que los guionistas actuales no tengan ni idea de qué hacer con ella...

Como contraste, los hombres que aparecen en estos tebeos son extraordinariamente aburridos, incluso los villanos, todos perfectamente genéricos. Marston apunta hacia un mundo dirigido por mujeres fuertes, y, como modo de prepararnos para su llegada, despliega una imaginería de dominación amable y consensuada, una utopía sadomasoquista en la que ni siquiera hacen falta palabras de seguridad. ¿Raro? Hombre, pues sí, para qué vamos a negarlo, pero, oigan, ni que el mundo real fuera mejor...

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an absolutely wild ride. I think most people know about bondage being an integral element of Golden Age Wonder Woman but I was not prepared for how kinky this gets. Beyond simply getting tied up and tying other people up, Wonder Woman explores BDSM quite in depth. William Moulton Marston plays with the contradictions of the desire to submit and ties it into the psychology of patriarchy and fascism. It's about as subtle as a hammer but it goes to crazy places: a planet of women who want to be in prison and are sentenced to freedom for crimes; an Amazonian holiday where women dress up as deer and get hunted and trussed for cooking; billionaires are conditioned love their submission to women and Nazi mind control weapons are appropriated to "print a picture of Wonder Woman on their brains." Every story involves at least one original bondage situation, it's great. Unfortunately, a lot of the stories revolve around generic wartime fifth columnist sabotage plots that get really racist about Japanese people. Still, this has some of the most inventive and creative kink scenarios in Golden Age comics and is incredibly entertaining.