Inside front cover pages for SENSATION COMICS 1, 2, 3:
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Note: All the Wonder Woman stories thusfar were untitled when they were originally published--story titles were invented for them later in the ARCHIVES.
In this early run, Wonder Woman is a feature that unfolds like a soap opera, in that each story is another chapter in the lives of these characters--which wasn’t always the case with super-heroes at the time and it was more common for each story to stand alone with no reference to the events before or after it.
Nevertheless, there are some gaps that we have to fill in, like with Etta and the mental radio. It’s pretty interesting that Marston introduces a simple form of the lie detector (the other thing he's famous for) with Diana giving the women blood pressure tests. As yet, Wonder Woman doesn’t have her magic lasso which would make this kind of thing easier.
The inter-office politics between Darnell and Trevor are first developed here, with Trevor’s secretary--Lila Brown in the comic book, but Erna Dollar, in the daily strip--as well as Darnell's growing affections for Miss Prince. There is more room to develop this strand of the story in the newspaper strip, where Diana and Erna are strong adversaries.
In the SENSATION story, Diana Prince writes her “shorthand” in Amazonian--er, her own system--while in the strip it’s in Greek letters.
The hazing that Eve Brown receives from the “Beeta Lamda” sorority might seem harsh, but it’s probably true to most initiation rituals in American colleges. Olive Byrne attended Tutts University, where Marston was her psychology professor, and even if he might not have had intimate knowledge of sorority life, I’m sure Olive would.