One of my favorites runs of any comic. It was called, at the time, "the thinking person's superhero book." It's hard to understand, now, how big a deal it was that it wasn't until the 4th issue that our heroine had her first fight scene, or the decapitation of Deimos. I loved that she had to learn English, and that we'll get an explanation of the American flag colors and how she got a Roman name like Diana.
A little trivia, the woman who picks the name "Wonder Woman" was modelled on Jeanette Kahn.
Also, I'd like to give the editor some credit where it's due: Karen Berger, who encouraged her creators to take comics places they'd never been. There was already this and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. Before long, we'd see others added to her line, like Hellblazer; Grant Morrison's Animal Man; Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid and Sandman; and Milligan's Shade, the line that eventually became Vertigo. Wow. All those classics that re-defined comics coming from that one office in just a few years.
Diana hasn't been quite the same since she was taken from Karen, especially with her villains. Since they were part of the proto-Vertigo line, the Cheetah and Dr. Psycho were legitimately dangerous and scary. The last page of issue #8 (Note to Grant Morrison: That's how you do a mostly prose issue) establishes that the post-Crisis Cheetah is very different than the pre-Crisis one, with what she does to that guy (It was a real "Oh, crap!" moment of it's day), while the introduction of the post-Crisis Dr. Psycho was downright chilling (and very Vertigo-ish). When that issue ended with him approaching the very pregnant woman, I thought "Surely, they're not going to go there..."
I don't understand why Dr. Psycho had to be toned down by the later editors, though. It's not as though they tone down the Joker. Or, was there some rule established that no one could be more nightmarish than the Joker?