Story: "The Distance Gone" (50 Pages)

Credits:

Eric Luke (plot; script)
Eric Battle (pencils)
Ray McCarthy and Romeo Tanghal (inks)
Albert DeGuzman (letters)
Jason Scott Jones (colors)
L.A. Williams (edits)

Feature Character:

Wonder Woman (appears in between Wonder Woman #138 and #139)

Supporting Characters:

Myndi Mayer (only as a ghost, following flashbacks to her death and dismemberment in Wonder Woman #20)
Ed Indelicato (Last in Wonder Woman #96)

Villians: Thalia (first and only appearance; the muse of comedy/tragedy) and several Cyclopes (one -- Polyphemus, last seen in Wonder Woman #13)

Other Characters:

Wendi Mayer and Lew (first and only appearance to date for both) ()

Comment: This is a Ghosts crossover tie-in.

Synopsis:

Myndi Mayer haunts Diana. She asks the Amazon to save her little sister, Wendy. Wonder Woman returns to Boston to enlist Inspector Indelicato's aid. Indelicato and his partner are in the midst of investigating a new drug called Lethe, which afflicts its users with total amnesia. Indelicato is infatuated with Wonder Woman. He has put her on a pedestal too high for any other woman too reach. With his help Wonder Woman finds Wendy Mayer. They catch up with her in time to prevent her form ODing on Lethe. She gives them enough information to track the drug to its source. The drug is being supplied by 2 cyclopes in the employ of the Muse of Comedy, Thalia. She percieves that humans prefer her sister, the muse of tragedy. She offers humans the gift of forgetfulness in lieu of comedy. When Wendy takes an overdose of Lethe because she i spurned b y Inspector Indelicato the muse withdraws from earth to reconsider. Wendy's overdose wakes Indelicato to his true feelings for Wendy and Wonder Woman.