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Woman took many changes through the mid-fifties and throughout the sixties.
H.G. Peter, the original artist on Wonder Woman died completing issue
#97, taking all of the original feel of the book away.Wonder Woman's origin was revamped with her powers being derived from a combination of the Greek and Roman deities. Wonder Woman's earrings provided her with air when she traveled in outer space, her Invisible Plane metamorphed into an Invisible Jet, and her bracelets could send and recieve messages from Paradise Island. During this time, Wonder Woman also recieved a protege: Wonder Girl. Wonder Girl was Donna Troy, an orphan that Wonder Woman saved from a burning building. By using the Purple Ray, which Wonder Woman created, Donna recieved the powers of an Amazon, and with an ersatz version of Wonder Woman's costume, became Wonder Girl  At
the end of the 60's, Wonder Woman surrendered her powers to remain in
'Man's World' rather than accompany her fellow Amazons into another dimension
so they could 'restore their magic.'
Diana Prince, now no longer Wonder Woman had a new mentor: I Ching. The book became a bit like the show Kung-Fu with Diana taking the role of Grasshopper. She was mod, as was the fashion of the time and ran a boutique. This lasted for two years, with Wonder Woman being restored to her powers and costume in the early 70's. In the midst of this stupid depowering story line, Steve Trevor had been killed by Wonder Woman's then arch-nemesis, Dr. Cyber. Steve was resurrected, killed, then later resurrected again as Steve Howard. Wonder Woman fought a series of 'epic' battles through the 70's and 80's until she was finally killed during the Crisis On Infinite Earths in 1986. Tour the Silver Age Comic Book Cover Gallery
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