Some twice-told tales between Earths One and Two were more blatant then others, and there is a reason for it. Specifically, the ones involving the Wonder Women of both Earths. How so?
Among the plethora of foes facing Earth-Two's Wonder Woman were: Queen Atomia of Uranium-235-Atom, Queen Celerita of Mercury, a brunette Inventa of Cadmea Island, and a blonde Solo of Neptunia. There were also tales involving the alien Chequerians, Sky Riders and King Crystallar of the White Star.
Earth-One's Wonder Woman suffered a traumatic head injury while she was a powerless protector of the innocent in her Diana Prince identity. Returned to her homeland, her mother ordered a partial recovery of Diana's memory. However, certain memory fragments were omitted at the order of the Queen.
Immediately after this, Diana in her costumed identity battled the criminal mastermind known as Mister Domino and then met her here-to-fore unrevealed sibling in Nubia, whom she battled before befriending. After learning of a long lost sister she never knew, coupled with the loss of her beloved Steve Trevor who died, Queen Hippolyta requested she again utilize the memory chair.
Suddenly, Wonder Woman encountered versions of her doppleganger's old foes: a similar looking Queen Atomia, a King Celerito, a red-haired Inventa and a red-head Solo. Additionally, she would recall encountering her own version of the Chequerians, Sky Riders and King Crystallar of the White Star. But were they real?In fact, those tales with Steve Trevor were not real in the physical universe, as Queen Hippolyta informed her daughter. Each of these adventures which Diana experienced during this period seem to have been fabricated at her mother's request, based on those of her counterpart’s career*. As none of these are referred to after her discovery that the memory chair produced them to fill in years of her powerless period, it seems that these were imitations of the Earth-Two Wonder Woman's real life tales.
* Editorial comment from Wonder Woman #212 letter column confirming memory chair produced dream tales:
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