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WONDER WOMAN

WONDER WOMAN Vol. 2 #1 February 1987 [75¢] Cover Credit: George Perez (pencils, inks; signed)

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

Credits: Greg Potter and George Perez (plot); Greg Potter (script); George Perez (pencils); Bruce D. Patterson (inks); John Costanza (letters); Tatjana Wood (colors); Karen Berger (edits)

Feature Character: 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 Comment below)

Supporting Characters: Queen Hippolyta, Aella, Antiope, Menalippe the Oracle, Philippus, and the Amazons of Paradise Island (first appearance of all in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity; all born in this story; reimbodied souls of women whose souls have been gathered in the Cavern of Souls by Gaea after having been killed by man; Aella appears next in #168; Antiope and her followers leave the Amazons in this story and appear next in the flashbacks in #19 and 169, both of which take place more or less simultaneously; some including Queen Hippolyte, Menalippe, and Philippus appear in flashback in #12 in between pages 23 and 24); 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; latter ten as the Olympian Gods; first appearance of all in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity)

Villains: Ares (first appearance; the Olympian god of war); Heracles' lover (first appearance; an agent of Ares'; dies)

Other Characters: Gaea (no appearance; collects the souls of dead women for the Cavern of Souls behind the scenes); Charon the Ferryman (first appearance in the revamped Wonder Woman continuity); Heracles (appears next in issue #12) and his men (Theseus named in this story); An unnamed neanderthal (first appearance) and 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 in this story; her soul is reimbodied as Queen Hippolyte, and the soul of her unborn daughter as Princess Diana in this story)