![]() “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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