Wonder Woman #291 [Direct]
(May 1982)

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Volume
41
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-01-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Len Wein (credited) (editor); Mike W. Barr (credited) (associate editor); Dick Giordano (credited) (managing editor)

Issue Notes

Part 1 of a 3-issue series commemorating Wonder Woman's 40th anniversary.

On-sale date from copyright registration. Contemporaneous house ads list the on-sale date as February 4.
This issue has variants:

Book One: Judgment in Infinity! (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ross Andru (signed as ANDRU); Todd Klein (frame)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed as Giordano); Todd Klein (frame)
Colors
?
Letters
Todd Klein

Job Number
C-880
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman; Zatanna; The Adjudicator
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Klein credits from his website: http://kleinletters.com/1981OtherStuff.html.

Judgment in Infinity! Chapter 1: Comes the Adjudicator! (Table of Contents: 1)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz (credited) (plot); Roy Thomas (credited) (script)
Pencils
Gene Colan (credited)
Inks
Frank McLaughlin (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)

Job Number
J-8077
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; General Darnell; Justice League of America (cameo) [Hawkman; Superman; Green Lantern; Atom; Batman; Zatanna; Flash; Black Canary; Elongated Man]; Supergirl (cameo); Wonder Girl [Donna Troy] (cameo); Raven (cameo); Mera (cameo); Starfire (cameo); Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (cameo); Madame Xanadu (cameo); Adjudicator (intro, villain); Lois Lane (cameo)
Synopsis
Wonder Woman seeks the help of her Justice League comrades when a powerful alien giant comes to test Earth's worthiness as a planet.
Reprints

Chapter 2: Horsemen Four! (Table of Contents: 2)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz (credited) (plot); Roy Thomas (credited) (script)
Pencils
Gene Colan (credited)
Inks
Frank McLaughlin (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman; Zatanna; The Adjudicator (villain); Famine (Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse); Justice Society of America (cameo) [Dr. Fate; Dr. Mid-Nite; Hawkman; Power Girl; Green Lantern; Huntress; Flash]
Synopsis
Wonder Woman and Zatanna travel to Calcutta, India, where they battle the Adjudicator's first Horseman: Famine.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Wonder Words / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
Tamsyn O'Flynn (credited)
Pencils
? (logo illustration)
Inks
? (logo illustration)
Colors
? (logo illustration)
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-996

Indexer Notes

Letters from Dusty Leary; Charles D. Brown; Bob Holum; Mike Paredes; Paul Zuckerman.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1981
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 83,796
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 81,725
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly-held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10019

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Book One: Judgment in Infinity!
    Wonder Woman
  2. 1. Judgment in Infinity! Chapter 1: Comes the Adjudicator!
    Wonder Woman
  3. 2. Chapter 2: Horsemen Four!
    Wonder Woman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Wonder Words
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Andrew S. Troth
  • S Turunen
  • Jim Van Dore