DC Froze Wonder Woman Long Before Marvel Froze Captain America
While Marvel fans readily know that Captain America's origin includes the hero being frozen in ice for decades, they may not know that DC's Wonder Woman nearly had the same fate many years sooner. Wonder Woman #7 from 1943 put the titular heroine on ice, but her time in it was much briefer. Nonetheless, the action happened to her far sooner than Marvel introduced it as a core origin component for the «Star-Spangled Man With A Plan.»
Captain America and Wonder Woman were both introduced in 1941, though Cap debuted earlier in the year than the heroine. However, at the time, his origin did not include being frozen in ice. Captain America was a wartime super soldier, facing America's enemies alongside his sidekick Bucky Barnes. It would not be until the 1960s that he would enter stasis to make a major comeback.
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Wonder Woman #7 has the creative team of William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. The issue features Wonder Woman in an imagined future running for president of the United States against Steve Trevor. When Steve's running mate turns against him and threatens to freeze him to death, it is up to Diana to save him. She does so by freeing him, causing herself to be frozen by liquid air. Thankfully, Wonder Woman's frozen state does not last long since Etta Candy and Diana's other allies know that she can be thawed.
Steve Trevor is understandably distraught by Wonder Woman's state, but Marvel fans will recognize this as the same kind of situation that Steve Rogers is known for going through. However, he wasn't known to have done so until 1964 in The Avengers #4, when he was brought back into Marvel's main comic continuity again. Since he had
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