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Golden Age Wonder Woman Comics had a backup feature called the “Wonder Women of History” detailing real women and their famous achievements.

Wonder Woman #1 – Florence Nightingale – Battlefield Nurse in the Crimean War.

Sacajawea Wonder Woman #2 – – Nurse who organized the Red Cross.

Wonder Woman #3 – Edith Cavell – Nurse in the First World War that treated soldiers from both sides of the hostilities.

Wonder Woman #4 – Lillian D Wald – Nurse and founder of American Community nursing.

Wonder Woman #5 – Susan B. Anthony – Civil rights leader with prominent role in the suffrage movement.

Wonder Woman #6 – Madame Chiang Kai Shek – Politician and wife of Chiang Kai Shek.

Wonder Woman #7 – Joan of Arc – Peasant girl that led the French army to numerous victories in the Hundred Years War.

Wonder Woman #10 – Juliette Low – American Youth Leader and founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Wonder Woman #11 – – Abolitionist and author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

Wonder Woman #12 – – Political activist and first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Wonder Woman #13 – – Abolitionist and civil rights activist.

Sojourner Truth Wonder Woman #14 – – Second First Lady of the and political adviser to her husband, .

Wonder Woman #15 – Evangeline Booth – General of the Salvation Army.

Wonder Woman #16 – Madame Marie Curie– Physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. First person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Wonder Woman #17 – – Women’s rights activist who founded the first school for higher for women.

Wonder Woman #18 – Hannah Adams -- First woman author from the USA.

Wonder Woman #19 – – First openly identified woman to graduate from medical school and first female doctor in the USA.

Wonder Woman #20 – – Abolitionist and social reformer who was the initiator of women’s political rights.

Wonder Woman #21 – – American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter.

Wonder Woman #22 – Sarah Bernhardt – Stage and early film actress.

Susan B. Anthony Wonder Woman #23 – – American aviatrix and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Wonder Woman #24 – – First female professional astronomer in the USA with a named after her, which she discovered.

Wonder Woman #25 – Dolly Madison – Fourth First Lady of the USA.

Wonder Woman #26 – – Woman’s suffrage leader who campaigned for the nineteenth amendment.

Wonder Woman #27 – Sacajawea – Native American woman that accompanied Lewis and Clark, acting as an interpreter and guide. Wonder Woman #28 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – One of the most popular poets of the Victorian era.

Wonder Woman #29 – Dorothea Lynde Dix – American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who helped to create the first generation of American mental asylums.

Wonder Woman #30 – – American pioneering journalist.

Wonder Woman #31 – Jenny Lind – Swedish opera singer.

Wonder Woman #33 – – American astronomer whose extensive cataloguing helped lead to the development of contemporary stellar classification.

Wonder Woman #34 – – American educator.Madame Chiang Kai Shek

Wonder Woman #35 – Fanny Burney - English novelist.

Wonder Woman #37 – Bethenia Owens – First woman physician in the eastern USA.

Wonder Woman #38 – Hannah More – English religious writer and philanthropist.

Wonder Woman #39 – Mumtaz Mahal – Mughal Empress of India and inspiration for the building of the Taj Mahal.

Wonder Woman # 40 – Margrete – Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Wonder Woman #41 – Vinnie Ream Hoxie – American sculptor whose most famous work was a statue in the US Capitol.

Wonder Woman #43 – Myra Colby Bradwell– Publisher, political activist and first woman admitted to the bar as a lawyer in the state of Illinois. Wonder Woman #45 – Helene Kottauer – Writer in the fifteenth century.

Wonder Woman #46 – Harriet Quimby – Early aviatrix and first woman to fly across the English Channel.

Lady Hestor Stanhope Wonder Woman #47 – Lady Hestor Stanhope – Intrepid traveler in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Wonder Woman #48 – Anne Dacier – French scholar and translator of classics.

Wonder Woman #49 – Emilja Plater – Noblewoman and revolutionary who took part in the November Uprising.

Wonder Woman #50 – – Famous chemist who was first female graduate of M.I.T. and first female lecturer there as well.

Wonder Woman #51 – – Famous British astronomer and discoverer of several .

Wonder Woman #52 – Emma Cons – British social reformer and theater manager.

Wonder Woman #53 – Martha G. Kimball –US Civil War battlefield nurse.

Wonder Woman #55 – Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch – Founder of Greenwich House and advocate for conditions.

Wonder Woman #56 – – First woman editor of an American magazine.

Wonder Woman #57 – Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska – Doctor and civil rights advocate