Comic Title: Wonder Woman:Beauty and the Beasts TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: September 21, 2005 Direct Market Date September 21, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #7 (#199)

Direct Market Date September 21, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Direct Market Date September 21, 2005
Source: Comic Shop News, #948

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 160
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Swan Song"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (Post-Crisis)

Plotter/Penciller: George Perez
Scripter: Len Wein
Inker: Bruce D. Patterson
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted From:
Wonder Woman #15 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Etta Candy (last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #17)
• Vanessa Kapatelis (last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Myndi Mayer (last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)

Villain(s)

• Silver Swan (Valerie Beaudry; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Henry Cobb Armbruster (first appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Kwan (an assassin; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Mr. Choi (first appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)

Other Character(s)

• Barry Locatelli (last appearance in Wonder Woman #8; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Maxine Sterenbuch (a childhood friend of Silver Swan; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Skeeter LaRue (a publicist; name revealed in this story; last appearance in Wonder Woman #14; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Steve London (an art director working for Myndi Mayer; last name not given in this story; next appearance in Wonder Woman #20)
• Two security guards (Murray named; no further appearances)
• Solomon Buchman (first appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Eileen Flowers (a friend of Vanessa; last name revealed in Wonder Woman #23; first appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman Annual #2; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Alison Clooney (a charity organizer; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Eddie Indelicato (a police officer; name not given in this story; next appearance in Wonder Woman #16)
• Deni Hayes (Steve's assistant; last name not given in this story; next appearance in Wonder Woman #20)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Superman (in a dream)
• Benjamin Buchman (Solomon's father; on a videotape)

Comments:
This story continues in Wonder Woman #16.

Synopsis:
Maxine Sterenbuch is hunted by an assassin. Her life is saved by a man named Solomon who then kidnaps her. When Maxine awakens from the effects of a tranquilizer dart, Solomon explains that her childhood friend Valerie Beaudry tried to kill her. Valerie was a horribly disfigured child made into a beautiful woman as a result of a scientific experiment. The same process gave her deadly sonic powers. Her boyfriend Henry Armbruster is responsible and sent Valerie, dubbed the Silver Swan, to kill Solomon's father.

Valerie has also been conditioned to hate Wonder Woman who is scheduled to appear at a charity fair in her honor. Solomon brings Maxine to find Valerie, but Armbruster's men find them first. The Silver Swan then attacks Wonder Woman. She uses her sonic scream to knock over a ferris wheel.