Drusilla (DC Comics)

Drusilla is a fictional Amazon appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Mike Sekowsky, the character appeared in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #182 to #184 (1969).
Debra Winger portrayed a character named Drusilla/Wonder Girl, Wonder Woman's younger sister, in three episodes of the Wonder Woman TV series (1976-1977).
Publication history
Created by Mike Sekowsky, Drusilla was an Amazon messenger who first appeared in DC Comics' Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #182 to #184 (1969).
Fictional character biography
Drusilla is an Amazon messenger who comes to the former Wonder Woman with terrible news.
In the dimension now hosting Paradise Island, Ares was attempting to force Hippolyta to give him the secret of transdimensional travel.
Hippolyta several times refused, and so Ares sent his troops against the island, killing many Amazons. Ares' daughter Eris then put Hippolyta into an enchanted sleep.
==="A Time to Love, A Time to Die!"===
During Diana's adventures with I Ching: In another dimension, Queen Hippolyta tells an Amazon named Drusilla that she must bring Princess Diana back to her using a magic cross-dimensional amulet. Drusilla locates Diana and I Ching and subsequently transports them all across the dimensional barriers to the one in which Themyscira now exists.
"Return to Paradise Island"
The land is ravaged by war, and Queen Hippolyta lies comatose and tormented. An Amazon reveals that Ares, his sister Eris, and his sons Diemos and Phobus came to Hippolyta and demanded the secret of dimensional travel so that they could travel to Earth and plunge it into a bloody war. Hippolyta refused, and a battle ensued, in which the Amazons were defeated. But Hippolyta still withheld the secret, whereupon Eris cursed her with a nightmare sleep that would only end when her secret was wrested from her.
Now Ares appears to Diana and tells her that she can end her mother's suffering by asking her to reveal the secret. But Hippolyte, even in sleep, grasps Diana's hand, signifying her answer is still "No". When Ares and his family attempt to kidnap Hippolyta, the Amazons surround their queen and prevent it. Ares withdraws, promising to return with troops. Diana rallies the Amazons to fight at her side against their foe, which outnumbers them five to one. Diana later dons battle armor and leads the Amazon army against Deimos's and Phobus's Beast Men, during which battle the enemy snatches Hippolyta. The Amazons recover their queen in a raid led by Diana, and they withdraw to a mountain pass where they intend to make their last stand against Mars's troops.
"The Last Battle"
Diana hits on the idea of going to another dimension where King Arthur and heroes of legend still exist and asking for their help in repelling Mars's troops. Drusilla, the Amazons’ messenger, takes her to that realm, in which Arthur is holding a tournament of heroes. But none of them wishes to go to war again, even after Diana tells them Ares is on the march again. A fight begins between Diana and Siegfried, but the Valkyrie Brunhilde stops it and tells Diana she and her Valkyries would be proud to aid the Amazons. Thus, Diana returns with the Nordic war-women and begin their final engagement with Ares's forces. Before long, they are joined by Roland and the other heroes from Arthur's realm, and Ares's army is defeated. Hippolyta awakens from her sleep, and Ares brings an unconscious Diana back to her, honoring his opponent, but telling her that he will eventually return. Roland, Brunnhilde, and all the other heroes and Valkyries depart. Paradise Island is rebuilt, and I Ching opts to stay there awhile and study its ancient mysteries. With the crisis over, Drusilla takes Diana back to her apartment on Earth where they part ways and say their goodbyes.
In other media
Television
* Debra Winger portrays an Amazon named Drusilla/Wonder Girl, the younger sister of Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter), in three episodes of the Wonder Woman TV series (1976-1977). Although the pilot episode establishes that Diana is the only child of Queen Hippolyta (Carolyn Jones), the two-part episode "The Feminum Mystique" (1976) introduces Diana's younger sister, Drusilla. In the episode, Hippolyta sends Drusilla to America to bring Diana home to Paradise Island to continue her duties as princess. Drusilla gets tangled up in a Nazi plot to discover the secret of Wonder Woman's magical bracelets, and in the process masters the transformational spin used by Diana. Although Drusilla creates the persona of Wonder Girl, the distinction is lost on the Nazis, who believe her to be Wonder Woman and abduct her. Drusilla appeares again in the final episode of the first season "Wonder Woman in Hollywood" (1977).

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