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Nubia had several different versions long the years, let's show them out

Nubia (Earth-One) was an Amazon warrior, a rival to the title of Wonder Woman.

Formed from clay as a twin to Diana (Wonder Woman), the dark-skinned Nubia was kidnapped by Mars, who raised her, controlling her mind so that she would help him bring down the Amazons.

After a session in the Amazon memory banks, Diana was confronted by an armored female warrior who challenged her to single combat. The two initially wrestled, then faced each other with swords.

Diana and the intruder seemed evenly matched until the intruder knocked the sword from Diana's hands, and then hesitated to kill her, giving Diana the chance to wrestle her to a draw.

The stranger declared herself as Nubia. Queen Hippolyta wondered if this was indeed the same Nubia who was to be raised as Diana's sister.

Nubia left the Amazons and returned to her mist-concealed Floating Island (named Slaughter Island by Mars). She told Diana that they will meet again and one of them will be proven the true Wonder Woman.

She eventually did return, and reiterated her claim to the title of Wonder Woman. Later on, Nubia put down a challenge to her rule by one of the male warriors of Slaughter Island; she defeated the man but let him live, stating that "A woman doesn't destroy life, she cherishes it!

This version of Nubia, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–86 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series.

Nubia's next appearance comes in Supergirl (vol. 1) #9 (December 1973). In the story Supergirl is made an honorary Amazon. Later when it is discovered that Nubia is suffering from a mutated shark poisoning, Hippolyta sends Kara to retrieve a rare root needed to cure her.

In Super Friends #25 (October 1979), Wonder Woman, who is temporarily under the control of the evil Overlord, is seen attempting to liberate the oppressed women of the African continent.

She tells them that men still treat women as if they were possessions and it's time for women to stand up to men, with Wonder Woman as leader. But Diana is interrupted by Nubia. She tells her to back off and they fight; eventually the Overlord is defeated and they part as friends

Sometime after Crisis a new version of Nubia, now called Nu’Bia, was introduced. When Nu’Bia first meets Diana, she mistakenly calls Diana by the name of her former queen “Antiope“. Nu’Bia is only slightly surprised to discover that Diana is Antiope’s niece.

The woman identifies herself to Diana as Nu’Bia and says that she was a Themyscirian Amazon who won the “Tournament of Grace and Wonder” just as Diana previously had, and become the Amazons’ first champion.

Her assigned mission was to guard Doom's Doorway, which is an entrance to the river Styx and the Tartarus Gate on Themyscira. Entering Doom's Doorway she was to guard the entryway from the inside, stopping anyone from entering or any creature from escaping.

As Diana was never told of Nu'Bia it is assumed that the Themyscirian Amazons assumed she perished during her mission long before Diana's birth. Sometime during her time in the underworld, Nu'bia explains she met the Zoroastrian god of light, Ahura Mazda, and became his lover.

She was feeling lonely since the day she was born.

She also explains that on another adventure where she aided Gorgons, she was given the ability called Cold Sight which allows her to transform any living being into stone as a gift of gratitude from the Gorgons. After aiding Wonder Woman with her mission Nu'Bia then returns.

The next time Nu'Bia is shown, an elevator in a Las Vegas hotel suddenly manifests a golden metal lion insignia. When Diana investigates this strange occurrence, Nu'Bia steps out of the elevator. She says:

The demon Ahriman murdered Ahura Mazda, and carved his heart from his body. Nu'Bia has come back to earth in search of Ahriman, hoping that she can retrieve the heart and revive her lover.

Nubia first appearance on TV screen
Wonder Woman TV Series (1977)
Born March 16, 1952, Carolyn Hamilton joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1971. A year later, she worked undercover with Steve Trevor on a case. Steve ended up saving Carolyn's life in a gun battle

The beauty Jayne Kennedy played her

In 1975, Carolyn resigned from the force, after having fallen in love with the leader of a group she was infiltrating. Two years later, Carolyn had become involved with a terrorist organization. However, she ended up turning on the group, thanks to Steve and Wonder Woman.

Later on Wonder Woman '77 Meets the Bionic Woman #5

Wonder Woman took the reformed Carolyn to Paradise Island, where she took the name Nubia, Commander of the Amazons.

Final Crisis (Earth-23)
From the island nation of Amazonia, Nubia functions as Wonder Woman;a diplomat and guardian as well as a representative of her people. Renee Montoya ventures forth with Earth 5 Captain Marvel in an attempt to recruit each universes equivalent of Superman

The beginning of the issue illustrates their visit to a universe where a Black Superman is the President of the United States. She uses a relic called the Wonder Horn to summon Renee and the others into her world. A powerful woman.

This version of Nubia later reappears as a member of her Earth's Justice League, with her Earth officially revealed as Earth-23 in the new Multiverse. Her adventures take her around the world in order to protect justice, liberty and equality.

Wonder Woman: Earth One
June, 2016
Nubia is an Amazon from Amazonia. She is Queen Hippolyta's right-hand woman and is always by her side as her counselor. It is implied that she has a romantic relationship with Hippolyta.

Hippolyta sent her, Mala, Troia, Artemis and the Gorgon Medusa, to the United States of America in search for Princess Diana, the new Wonder Woman, to force her to return to Paradise Island and face the trial for her misdemeanor of protecting US Air Force pilot Steven Trevor.

During Diana's trial, when Hippolyta had to face responsibility for her own past deeds and fooling her own daughter, Nubia persuaded the Queen not to abdicate the throne, saying that this decision was not for her to make, putting the crown back on her head.

Injustice: The Regime #15
December 2017
After the treachery, defeat, and imprisonment of Diana, the previous Wonder Woman, the Amazons of Themyscira named Nubia their new champion. Nubia was the first to discover Kara Zor-El when she washed up on the shores of Themyscira.

Later, when Kara and and a group of rebels led by Antiope kidnapped Queen Hippolyta, Nubia was the one who led the Amazon army against the traitors, sparking the Amazon War.

Scooby-Doo Team-Up Vol1 5
In Paradise Island, Daphne Blakey and Velma Dinkley are taking part in an Amazon Kanga-riding training session. The training over, Wonder Woman explains why she invited Mystery, Inc. over. Strange things have been happening in the island lately.

Action Comics Vol2 9
Justice League arrives to help clean up the mess and investigate the mysteries of the Transmatter Symphonic Array, as Luthor called it.

And that's it!
All of Nubia comics appearances and her background. Maybe someday we're gonna to see this queen again, now let's talk about her powers;

Pre-Crisis
Nubia possessed a magic sword created by Mars/Ares which was the only weapon on Earth that could counteract Diana's magic lasso. She could also glide on air currents like Wonder Woman and possessed super-strength as well as all other Amazon abilities.

Nubia's Powers are thought to be just like her sister Diana since they both were made the same way. Such as:
Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Durability
Flight
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Agility
Superhuman Stamina
Superhuman Senses
Hand-to-Hand Combat

Post-Crisis
Nu'Bia wears special magical armor with a raised embossed lion's head on its breastplate. Typically when she is about to appear at a new location the lion's head appears as part of the doorway, suggesting that the armor might be the source of this ability.

She carries an unspecified magic sword. She possesses super-human strength and all other abilities equal to that of a standard Themyscirian Amazon and has millennia of experience in fighting and killing demons.

Curiosities:
In 1975, actress Teresa Graves of ABC's Get Christie Love! Was favored by executives of ABC's 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.

She was the first African American woman to star in her own television show!! And she would be perfect for the role.

In the 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. I want one of those

And this thread has come to an end, if there's any news about her, I'll just put on my profile. I really hope @DCComics does not forget her.