Popular Comics Characters Imported From Other Media

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8. General Blankenship

First appearance: For many people the best known version of Wonder Woman remains the fondly remembered 1970s TV series starring Lynda Carter, still the only live action version of the character until Gal Gadot arrives in Batman V Superman. For that wartime set show’s first season in 1976, Diana was given a job at the War Office and General Philip Blankenship, a sort of loose reworking of the comics’ General Darnell.

In comics: With the show popular enough to create a broader market for wartime period set stories for Wonder Woman, the comics switched focus for a while to Earth-Two, where DC dumped their Golden Age characters and narratives. From Wonder Woman #229 in 1977, therefore, General Blankenship (never given a first name) appeared as Diana’s military boss in Earth-Two stories.

The whole multiverse concept was destroyed in the 80s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, but Blankenship showed up again in the wartime set The Daughter’s Mother in 2002 when Diana travels back to the 1940s where her mother Hippolyta is Wonder Woman working with Blankenship as her military contact. The Infinite Crisis arc also introduced Drusilla, TV Wonder Woman’s sister played by Debra Winger, as an alternative world’s Wonder Girl.

And back again?: Not yet, but if the new DC Extended Universe Wonder Woman film has any portion set in World War 2, then it’s likely that Blankenship will be the authority figure to cameo.