1st Appearance of Wonder Woman: All-Star Comics #8 Value

Wonder Woman first appeared in All-Star Comics #8 (cover date December 1941), published by DC, by William Moulton Marston, Harry G. Peter. The source puts it this way: "This landmark comic book features the very first appearance and original origin of Wonder Woman".

• Release/cover date: the issue's release date is recorded as December 3, 1941.
• Interior story content: the origin story continues into Sensation Comics #1 and Wonder Woman #1.

• Indicia: the small print on the first page or inside cover gives the issue number, date and publisher; reprints usually say so there.
• Cover price and barcode: a price or barcode format that did not exist in the year printed means a later edition.
• Paper and staples: decades-old newsprint is tan at the edges; bright white pages on an old date are a warning sign.
• Restoration: color touch, trimmed edges and married covers are common on expensive keys; a grading service can detect them.

Shoot the front cover flat, straight on, in even light, then the indicia page and the back cover. Include the top edge and staples in one frame. The app reads the title, issue number and cover and matches it against the checks above; the indicia photo settles most reprint questions.

Sources give different dates for All-Star Comics #8, and all of them can be right. The cover date is December 1941–January 1942, but the issue went on sale on October 21, 1941 (Wikipedia; Book Riot). Publishers put a later date on the cover than the day the comic reached stands, and some databases, including PriceCharting, list it as December 1, 1941. Her first cover and first feature followed in Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942), and her own title, Wonder Woman #1, came out in summer 1942 (Wikipedia; QualityComix).

Wonder Woman's debut is a short origin story. Pilot Steve Trevor crashes on Paradise Island, Diana falls for him, and Queen Hippolyta tells the Amazons' history. Aphrodite and Athena ask the Amazons to send their strongest to America; Diana wins the tournament in disguise, including the bullets-and-bracelets test, and leaves with Trevor in her new costume. Part of the story is told as two pages of illustrated prose, and a house ad sent readers to Sensation Comics #1 (Book Riot).

All-Star Comics #8 (1941), QualityComix price guide, retrieved September 25, 2026:

• GD 2.0: $27,500
• VG 4.0: $53,775
• FN 6.0: $90,000
• VF 8.0: $200,000
• NM 9.4: $936,225

QualityComix records the last CGC 9.4 auction in 2017 at $936,000 and a record sale of $1,620,000.

Wonder Woman #1 (1942), her first solo issue:

• QualityComix guide, retrieved September 25, 2026: GD 2.0 $15,000, VG 4.0 $30,000, FN 6.0 $70,000, VF 8.0 $150,000, NM 9.4 $500,000. It lists an unrestored CGC 9.0 sold for $291,100 in December 2016 as the record.
• PriceCharting, retrieved September 25, 2026: CGC 4.0 $34,800, CGC 6.0 $39,920, CGC 8.0 $108,000, CGC 9.2 $140,400.

PriceCharting's ungraded figures for both books are under $30, which reflects cheap reprints and facsimiles sold under the same title, not originals. Treat any "ungraded" price that low as a sign the listing is not the 1941 or 1942 book.

• 1967: Ellie Wood Walker (as Diana Prince) and Linda Harrison (as Wonder Woman) in the short test film Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?
• 1974: Cathy Lee Crosby in the TV film Wonder Woman.
• 1975–1979: Lynda Carter in the Wonder Woman TV series.
• 2011: Adrianne Palicki in an unaired TV pilot written by David E. Kelley.
• 2016 onward: Gal Gadot, starting with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Source: Wikipedia, Wonder Woman in other media.