Diana’s Amazon Sister Nubia Featured On ‘1970s Variant’ of Wonder Woman Issue #750

It’s a super cool wink & nod to fandom by DC Comics.

A humongous tsunami of interest in Nubia, Wonder Woman’s formerly forgotten twin “sista,” came crashing down on the nerdiverse — quite unexpectedly — right after the blockbuster film Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, hit movie theaters in the summer of 2017.

The somewhat obscure character’s first appearance was in the pages of Wonder Woman #204, published by DC Comics in February 1973. In a remixed and remastered Wonder Woman origin tale, Nubia would be fashioned out of dark clay by her mother Queen Hippolyta. Diana, her better-known twin, was fashioned from clay of a lighter hue.

Aside from her three-part origin story, though, Nubia would only make a few appearances in the comics.

Still, a 12-inch Nubia action doll, outfitted in armor with a Tyrian purple skirt (like in the comic), appeared on store shelves — and under Christmas trees — in 1977. But afterward, she’d live on mainly in the long boxes of vintage comic book collectors and on the shelves of old-school toy aficionados.