WONDER WOMAN ANNUAL Vol. 2 |

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WONDER WOMAN ANNUAL VOL. 2 #1
1988 [$1.50]
Cover Credits:
George Perez (artist; signed)
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Story: "Amazons" (35 Pages)
Credits:
George Perez (plot, script)
Brian Bolland, Chris Marrinan, Arthur Adams, John Bolton, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Curt Swan, Ross Andru (pencils)
Mark Farmer and Willie Blyberg and Bob McLeod (inks)
Todd Klein (letters)
Carl Gafford (colors)
Karen Berger (edits)
Feature Character:
Wonder Woman (last in Wonder Woman #22; also in first flashback in this story which takes place some time during page 26 of Wonder Woman #1 as well as the sixth flashback which takes place in between Wonder Woman Annual #4 and Wonder
Woman #15)
Supporting Characters:
Queen Hippolyta (also in several flashbacks in this story, that all take place in between pages of Wonder Woman #1; specifically the second takes place in between pages 10 and 14, the third takes place some time during page 23, and the fifth takes place in between pages 23 and 24)
Menalippe (both in between Wonder Woman #22 and Wonder Woman #25)
Phillipus (in between Wonder Woman #22 and Wonder Woman #27; also appears
in third flashback, which takes place chronologically preceding her appearance in the flasback in Wonder Woman #12)
Pythia (first appearance; next in Wonder Woman #25; also appears in fifth flashback),
and the Amazons of Paradise Island
Antiope (appears in flashback chronologically in between her appearances on pages 10 and 14 of Wonder Woman #1)
Phthia (first appearance; appears only in flashback; next in flashback in Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1)
Julia Kapatelis (also appears in fourth flashback chronologically preceding her first appearance in Wonder Woman #3) and
Vanessa Kapatelis (both in between Wonder Woman #22 and Wonder Woman #23)
Steve Trevor (in between Wonder Woman #17 and Wonder Woman #25) and
Etta Candy (in between Wonder Woman #17 and Wonder Woman #24; both in sixth flashback only)
Villians:
Gordon Hall (first and only appearance; in sixth flashback only) and
an unnamed harpy (first appearance; destroyed in second flashback)
Other Characters:
Mnemosyne (next in Wonder Woman #39) and
Euboea (next in Wonder Woman #25; also in first flashback, which takes place chronologically preceding her first appearance in Wonder Woman
#12; both last in Wonder Woman #14)
David Kapatelis (chronologically earliest appearance; appears in the narrated flashback in Wonder Woman #18 in between panels of the flashback in this story, and dies behind the scenes in that narration)
Synopsis:
Julia and Vanessa Kapatelis spend a weekend on Paradise Island learning from the Amazons and teaching them. Vanessa hears about Diana's first cliff dive and about the first Amazon to lose her life guarding Doom's Doorway. Julia remembers nearly drowning as a child and coming shore on Paradise Island where the Amazon, Pythia, sponsored her. Hippolyte tells her daughter about Antiope and the tragedy of Lemnos. Diana tells her mother about helping Etta Candy and Steve Trevor capture a saboteur as a way of illustrating the two lovers' sense of duty and honor which keeps them from visiting Themyscira.
Second Story: "Testament" (5 Pages)
Credits:
George Perez (plot, script)
George Perez (pencils)
George Perez (inks)
Todd Klein (letters)
Carl Gafford (colors)
Karen Berger (edits)
Feature Character:
Wonder Woman (next in Wonder Woman #23)
Supporting Characters:
Myndi Mayer (deceased in this story; appears in various flashbacks, all preceding her first appearance in Wonder Woman #7)
and
Chrissie Fenton (in between Wonder Woman #20 and Wonder Woman #28; also appears in flashbacks chronologically preceding her first appearance in Wonder Woman #7)
Other Character:
Kevin Mayer (first appearance; Myndi's homaffectional brother; also in some flashbacks; his brief appearance in the flashback in the following issue takes place in between the flashbacks and the framing sequence of this story; he appears next in Wonder Woman #50)
Synopsis:
Back in Patriarch's World, Diana attends the video reading of Myndi Mayer's will. She learns of the tragedy and triumph of her former publicist's life. Respecting Myndi's last request she scatters the deceased's ashes in the waters surrounding Paradise Island.
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