Wonder Woman
#288
[Direct]
(February 1982)
DC,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-10-13
- 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)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Look Out, World! The Sensational New Wonder Woman Is Bustin' Loose!
Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- C-788?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman
- Reprints
-
in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #6/1982 (Juni 1982) -
in Wonder Woman: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2016 series) ([November] 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
New logo, first seen in DC Comics Presents (DC, 1978 series) #41. Homage to Wonder Woman's first cover appearance, Sensation Comics (DC, 1941 series) #1.
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Swan Song!
Wonder Woman / comic story / 27 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Job Number
- J-7750
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Steve Trevor; Hercules (flashback); Mercury (flashback); Queen Hippolyte (flashback): Dr. Prescott; Silver Swan [Helen Alexandros] (villain, introduction, origin); Etta Candy; General Darnell; Mars (flashback); Doctor Psycho
- Synopsis
- Diana Prince and Etta Candy invite Helen Alexandros to be their new roommate, unaware she's secretly the Silver Swan, an agent of Mars intent on killing Wonder Woman.
- Reprints
- in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #6/1982 (Juni 1982)
-
in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #7/1982 (uke 37 1982) - in DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman - The '80s (DC, 2011 series) #1 (October 2011)
- in Wonder Woman: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2016 series) ([November] 2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Gerry Conway receives special thanks as "technical advisor." Wonder Woman wears the new emblem she adopted in DC Comics Presents (DC, 1978 series) #41. Splash page is an homage to the splash page of TALES OF SUSPENSE (Marvel, 1959 series) #73, a Roy Thomas scripted story that marked Gene Colan's debut on the Iron Man feature. First appearance and origin of the Silver Swan [Helen Alexandros]. Helen is a descendant of both Mars, God of War, and Helen of Troy.
Marathon Madman
The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Dr. Sorcery
- Synopsis
- The Flash distracts Dr. Sorcery with Hostess Cup Cakes so that the villain does not disrupt the Central City Police Department Marathon.
[no title indexed]
Wonder Words / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-940
Indexer Notes
Letters from Pat White; Matt Kurtz; Charles D. Brown; Jim Asal.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Look Out, World! The Sensational New Wonder Woman Is Bustin' Loose!
Wonder Woman -
1.
Swan Song!
Wonder Woman -
2.
Marathon Madman
The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes -
3.
[no title indexed]
Wonder Words
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- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mark Q
- Andrew S. Troth
- S Turunen
- Jim Van Dore
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