DC COMICS: Wonder Woman '77 Nubia

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Mego Nubia

WONDER WOMAN IN THE MEDIA

WONDER WOMAN '77 IN THE MEDIA

WHAT WE KNOW: Nubia in Wonder Woman '77

Teresa Graves

In 1975, actress Teresa Graves of ABC's (by-then cancelled) Get Christie Love! was favored by executives of ABC's then very successful Wonder Woman television series to play the superheroine's black sister, but the series moved to CBS in 1977, before the character ever appeared on the show. That same year, the Mego Corporation produced a Nubia doll to tie-in with the show, advertised as "Wonder Woman's super-foe." Wearing a gladiator-styled costume modeled on one that Graves would have worn in the series, and resembling a uniform Nubia wore in the comic book, the doll was also given a white streak of hair as a dramatic touch to her otherwise black hair.^{[citation needed]}