Today in Comics History, January 8: Happy birthday, Queen Hippolyta!

Born on this day in ⬛⬛⬛⬛ (a true lady never reveals her birth year in antiquity), the woman the kids call Mrs. Wonder Woman's Mom: Queen Hippolyta! Or sometimes, in the Golden Age, Hippolyte. Just don't call her late for dinner! Ha! I slay me! No, seriously, she's really going all in on that cornbread.


from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda
Here in actual untouched and certainly not colored for comic books footage, a true depiction of Hippolyta celebrating her birthday! Aw, she's just glad Diana came home for it and to drop off her laundry.


from "Menace of the Mermen!" in Wonder Woman (1942 series) #93 (DC, October 1953), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Harry Peter
Now, here's a patented, designed-for-your-amusement (and/or confusion) DC (Flash) Fact!: despite codifying Hip's birthday as January 8 in the Super DC Calendar 1976, an earlier 1962 story had already set her birthday as May 18! What's the deal with that? (Personally, I think Bob "The DC Answer Man" Rozakis was asleep at his desk that day!)


from Wonder Woman (1942 series) #113 (DC, July 1962), script by Robert Kanigher, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito, letters by Gaspar Saladino
But that's a tale for another day. Specifically, May 18. See ya then!