Wonder Woman
#16
[Direct]
(May 1988)
DC,
1987 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-01-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Karen Berger (editor); Dick Giordano (executive editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #48, confirmed from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed)
- Inks
- George Pérez (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana]; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]
- Reprints
-
in Wonder Woman (DC, 2004 series) #3 - Beauty and the Beasts ([November] 2005) - in Wonder Woman by George Pérez Omnibus (DC, 2015 series) #[1] ([October] 2015)
- in Wonder Woman by George Pérez (DC, 2016 series) #2 ([August] 2017)
- in Wonder Woman Through the Years (DC, 2020 series) ([September] 2020)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #16 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/17/w200/17942.jpg?8541622863249159449)
Bird of Paradise / Bird of Prey!
Wonder Woman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- George Pérez (plot); Len Wein (script)
- Pencils
- George Pérez (layouts)
- Inks
- Bob Smith (finishes)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- G-3518
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana]; Steve Trevor; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]; Lieutenant Michael Shands; Inspector Ed Indelicato; Maxine Sterenbuch; Henry Cobb Armbruster; Vanessa Kapatelis; Barry Locatelli; Eileen; Skeeter LaRue; Allison Clooney; Mrs. Kafora; Mr. Choi; Superman (on poster and on phone, unseen); Chrissie Fenton; Myndi Mayer; Hermes
- Synopsis
- When the fight at the fair gets out of hand, the Silver Swan delivers Henry Cobb Armbruster's warning and flees the scene, but Wonder Woman follows and the two fight to a draw in the skies over Boston. Later, Diana discusses her feelings for Superman with Vanessa who urges Diana to get Myndi to set up a meeting between the two, while Hermes is being pursued across the halls of Olympus by an unseen foe.
- Reprints
- in Wonder Woman (DC, 2004 series) #3 - Beauty and the Beasts ([November] 2005)
- in Wonder Woman by George Pérez Omnibus (DC, 2015 series) #[1] ([October] 2015)
- in Wonder Woman by George Pérez (DC, 2016 series) #2 ([August] 2017)
- in Wonder Woman Through the Years (DC, 2020 series) ([September] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Though Skeeter calls her "Mz. Cooney" in the previous story, Wonder Woman calls her "Allison Clooney" in this story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Wonder Woman -
1.
Bird of Paradise / Bird of Prey!
Wonder Woman -
2.
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Postscripts to Paradise
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Gary Henderson
- John Monagle
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Jim Van Dore
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