Diana of Themyscira

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She would be known later as Wonder Woman, but her name is Diana, her mother was Amazon Queen Hippolyta, an aunt was Antiope. Thus Diana was a princess of the Amazons. These Amazons lived on the island of Themyscira as they called it. We would call it Paradise Island. All Amazons are incarnations of murdered women. When Hippolyta died she was pregnant and the goddesses allowed her to keep the child. Diana so became the only child on the island. She was a human child, but had the powers of gods. But nevertheless, she was alone and lonely on that island. So after a while the sorceress Magala bestowed life upon a mirror reflection of the child and so created a mirrored twin. This sister they called Donna.  After six month Donna was kidnapped because the criminal who did the crime thought she was Diana. The two girls wouldn't see each other again until they were mature women and would share a penthouse in Fifth Avenue.
There are good gods and bad gods. When Ares, an evil god, wanted to destroy the world the Amazons sent their powerful princess Diana to the USA in the outside world, the Patriarch World as they called it, to try to reach a balance of power again. Diana succeeded in stopping Ares but instead of returning to Themyscira she stayed in the Patriarch world. She served in the military hospitals under the pseudonym Diana Prince.
There was an old prophecy that predicted that Wonder Woman would die at a certain time. Diana's mother,  Hippolyta, knew of this prophecy. By her meddling a new Wonder Woman, a woman named Artemis,  was given the title and Diana had to give up hers. According to the prophecy Artemis died, even though Diana, who had found out of the scheme, tried to prevent it. Diana couldn't forgive her mother, became Wonder Woman again and went to Gateway City.
Series Wonder Woman, © DC Comics 1988
Artwork taken from No. 24, Combat Zone
Words and artwork: George Pérez. Artwork: Will Blyberg. Coloring: Carl Gafford
History never ends. More less conservative biographers recently revealed that there actually were more children on the island, one of them Ororo Munroe, a girl who had lost her whole family in a shipwreck and was rescued by Diana's mother.  These events took place when Diana lived as a child on the  island of Themyscira
Again according to another source Diana has been married to a Vietnam veteran called Castle Castaglione. She wasn't a nurse at that time anymore but earned a living as a private detective. She had found him in an ally where he lay dying. She saved him and they fell in love. They soon had a child, a boy they called Ryan.
Series DC versus Marvel comics, © DC Comics and Marvel Comics 1996
Artwork taken from Bullets and Braceletts
Writer: John Ostrander. Artwork: Gary Frank. Inker: Cam Smith
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