Wonder Woman Vol. 2 1

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WONDER WOMAN VOL. 2 #1

Cover Date: February 1987
Cover Price: $0.75

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Cover Credits:
Art: George Pérez (Signed)

Story: "The Princess and the Power!" (32 Pages)

Credits:

Plot	Greg Potter, George Pérez
Story	Greg Potter
Pencils	George Pérez
Inks	Bruce D. Patterson
Lettering	John Costanza
Colors	Tatjana Wood
Editing	Karen Berger

Feature Character(s):

Princess Diana (first appearance of the new revamped Wonder Woman; born in this story; dons her Wonder Woman costume at the end of this story, but is first actually named Wonder Woman in #4; see Comments below)

Supporting Character(s):

Amazons of Themyscira (first appearance in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity; all born in this story; reembodied souls of women whose souls have been gathered in the Cavern of Souls by Gaea after having been killed by man):

Queen Hippolyta (appears in flashback in issue #12 in between pages 23 and 24)

Aella (next in issue #168)

Antiope

Menalippe the Oracle (first appearance; appears in flashback in issue #12 in between pages 23 and 24)

Phillipus (first appearance; appears in flashback in issue #12 in between pages 23 and 24)

other Amazons (first appearance in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity; born in this story; Antiope and her followers leave the Amazons in this story and appear next in the flashbacks in issue #19 and #169, both of which take place more or less simultaneously; some appear in flashback in #12 in between pages 23 and 24)

Olympian Gods (first appearance of all in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity):

Zeus (father of the Olympian Gods and God of the sky and thunder)

Hera (Zeus' consort and queen of the Gods)

Demeter (Goddess of fertility)

Hestia (Goddess of home and heart)

Poseidon (God of the sea; all five children of Chronus and Rhea)

Aphrodite (Goddess of love)

Artemis (Goddess of the hunt; twin sister of Apollo)

Hermes (God of commerce, herdsmen, and thieves; herald of the Gods)

Pallas Athena (Goddess of wisdom and defensive war; fully grown from the brow of Zeus)

Phoebus Apollo (God of light, poetry, and music; twin brother of Artemis)

Villain(s):

Ares (first appearance; the Olympian god of war)

Heracles' lover (first appearance; an agent of Ares'; dies)

Other Character(s):

Gaea (no appearance; collects the souls of dead women for the Cavern of Souls behind the scenes)

Charon (first appearance in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity)

Heracles (appears next in issue #12)

Heracles' men (Theseus named in this story)

An unnamed neanderthal (first appearance)

his "wife" (first appearance; her soul and the soul of her unborn child are the first of many to be gathered in the cavern of Souls by Gaea in this story; dies; her soul is reembodied as Queen Hippolyte, and the soul of her unborn daughter as Princess Diana in this story)

Location(s):

Themyscira:

Doom's Doorway

Comment(s):

The events in this story are somewhat "retconned" in issues #90, 0, and 91 (written by Bill Loebs Jr.) because of the revised continuity brought about due to the Crisis follow-up event known as Zero Hour. For one thing, instead of Queen Hippolyte being betrayed by Heracles, leading to the Amazons' crossing over to Paradise Island and Antiope declining to go to Paradise Island and leading her band of Amazons on a quest for revenge against Heracles and Theseus, in the retroactive continuity, Hippolyte falls in love with Heracles and allows him to conquer the Amazons. Also, some additional details are added to the story of Diana and how she won the contest. Later writers have apparently reverse Loebs' retcons back to the continuity established in this issue. See the entries for the aforementioned issues for more information.

Due to the effects of Infinite Crisis, these events occur at the beginning of the modern heroic age.

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