Hippolyta (DC Comics)

Queen Hippolyta is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. She is the mother of Wonder Woman, and based on the Amazon queen Hippolyta from Greek mythology. Introduced in 1941 during the Golden Age of Comic Books, she is the queen of the Amazons of Themyscira, and in some continuities, the adopted mother of Donna Troy. Cloris Leachman, Carolyn Jones and Beatrice Straight portrayed the character in the 1970s Wonder Woman series.