Queen Hippolyta, DC. Wonder Woman’s mother Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, was the first mom I remember encountering in comic books, way back in the late-1950s/early-1960s Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito days. Like my own mom, she knew her kid was special and encouraged Diana to follow her own path. Fortunately, my own mother didn’t follow Hippolyta’s character arc and, however may reboots I went through in my life, she never turned to lies and deception to manipulate and control me for my own good… a plot point I was involved in during my run as editor of Wonder Woman in the 1990s.