Wonder Woman #304 [Direct]
(June 1983)

DC, 1942 Series
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Volume
42
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-02-08
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Ernie Colón (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[Polaris Means Peril!] (Table of Contents)

Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane (signed)
Inks
Gil Kane (signed)
Colors
?
Job Number
C-361
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman
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Polaris Means Peril! (Table of Contents: 1)

Wonder Woman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Mishkin
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
Frank McLaughlin
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-8718
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Doctor Polaris (villain); Steve Trevor; Etta Candy; Major Keith Griggs; General Darnell
Synopsis
Doctor Polaris threatens to send the world off its axis if Green Lantern doesn't face him so Wonder Woman arranges for a substitute.
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Indexer Notes

Steve Trevor dresses as Green Lantern and pretends to fly with help from the Robot Plane. He uses an "Amazon heat balm" to stay warm in the Arctic climate. Wonder Woman refers to her alter ego as "Diane Prince" on page 6.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Wonder Words / letters page / 1.5 pages (report information)

Script
Robin Snyder
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1273
Synopsis
The letter column begins with a quote from William Moulton Marston; the issue is dedicated to David Transue. Letters from Kevin Pratt; Bill Previdi; Charles David Haskell; David Pou; Ross Miller; Courtney Collens; Ricky Burns; Margaret Sutton; York Anderson; George Williams; Jacques Viau; Al Anderson; Robert Pioski; Unsigned.

Indexer Notes

Snyder credit per Gary Usher's Robin Snyder Comic Book List. Previous indexer credited Mike Barr.

The quote from Marston reads: "Women represent love; men represent force. Man's use of force without love brings evil and unhappiness. Wonder Woman proves that women are superior to men because they have love in addition to force."

Last Rites! (Table of Contents: 3)

Huntress / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Mike DeCarlo
Inks
Pablo Marcos
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Duncan Andrews
Job Number
J-8660
Genre
superhero
Characters
Huntress [Helena Wayne]; Undertaker (villain); Doctor Tarr (villain); Milo (villain)
Synopsis
For the Huntress, it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Polaris Means Peril!]
    Wonder Woman
  2. 1. Polaris Means Peril!
    Wonder Woman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Wonder Words
  4. 3. Last Rites!
    Huntress
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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