“It’s not front line stuff because at the time isolationism was still one of the prevailing attitudes, so they couldn’t put her directly in the theater of war.” The OSS gave DC, then All-American Comics, a space to center Diana in wartime stories while toeing the political line. “Having Diana be an OSS agent is a way to have her involved in the war that’s in line with where the U.S. But her role in the OSS and the publisher’s output had to reflect the real world. Peter/DC ComicsĪs war consumed the world, Wonder Woman rose up the ranks of the OSS, becoming more powerful and ever more involved with America’s national interests. Sensation Comics #5 (1942) Image: William Moulton Marston, Harry G. And then Wonder Woman starts cosplaying as this woman in her day job and just keeps her identity forever.” Two issues later, the new Diana Prince leaves her role as an army nurse to follow Steve Trevor into the OSS as a secretary. Could I buy your identification, please?’ And Diana Prince is like, ‘Yeah, mate, you can have it,’ and sells her identity to Wonder Woman. “And she says, ‘Oh, if you take off your glasses we look quite similar. “She meets the real Diana Prince on the street in D.C.,” Sherif tells Polygon.
In 1942’s Sensation Comics #1, Wonder Woman has a chance meeting with an army nurse that leads to her gaining the iconic Diana Prince alter ego, though it’s a less than honest superheroic setup. government agency? Adam Karenina Sherif, an academic historian and writer who has written on World War II and American comics, including the earliest Wonder Woman appearances, cheekily calls it “identity theft” when unpacking the career move. How did a foreign princess with no paperwork or alias become a part of a secretive U.S. Though she wasn’t American herself, the Amazon royal acted as an American agent thanks to her passion for Steve Trevor, the human who was shot down over the waters of her isolated home. While Wonder Woman debuted months before the OSS was created, once she left Paradise Island in January 1942, she quickly joined the ranks of the spy agency. government’s global espionage activities. Polygon is diving into the world of espionage throughout fiction and pop culture history with Deep Cover, a two-week special issue covering all sorts of spy stories and gadgets.Įstablished in 1942, the OSS was created to coordinate the U.S.
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