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Cover Credits |
Artist: George Perez |
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Comic Title: Wonder Woman #10
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date:
August 4, 1987 Newsstand Date August 4, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42
Newsstand Date August 4, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122
Shipping Date July 14, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122
Shipping Date July 14, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC
Copyright Date July 14, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates
Shipping Date July 14, 1987
Source: Comic Shop News, #1
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger
Story |
Title: "Paradise Lost"
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 In:
Wonder Woman:Challenge of the Gods TPB (2004)
Wonder Woman by George Perez Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2015)
Wonder Woman by George Perez Vol. 1 TPB (2016)
Absolute Wonder Woman:Gods and Mortals HC (2022)
Feature Character(s)
- Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #9; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
Guest Star(s)
- Olympian Gods (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Zeus (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Athena (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Hermes (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Artemis (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Hera (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Aphrodite (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Apollo (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Demeter (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #14)
- Dionysus (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #14)
- Eos (no further appearances)
- Hestia (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Persephone (last appearance in Wonder Woman #6; no further appearances)
Supporting Character(s)
- Hippolyte (last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Amazons (Acantha named; last appearance in Wonder Woman #7; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Philippus (last appearance in Wonder Woman #6; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Menalippe (last appearance in Wonder Woman #5; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Mnemosyne (first appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #14)
- Euboea (an Amazon; first appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman Annual #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #14)
Villain(s)
- Pan (last appearance in Secret Origins #22; next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
- Cottus (first appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman #12; no further appearances)
- The Hydra (next appearance in Wonder Woman #11)
Comments:
The Challenge of the Gods Book 1
This story continues in Wonder Woman #11.
This issue was a wraparound gatefold cover.
Synopsis:
Zeus observes Wonder Woman on Paradise Island. Pan advises him to reward her by sleeping with her. Diana is summoned before Zeus, but she refuses his offer of communion of the flesh. Angered Zeus returns to Olympus.
Hippolyte is then summoned to appear before the Gods of Mount Olympus. Zeus is angry at the Amazons, but the goddesses have talked him into giving their favored race a chance. Zeus demands that the Amazons meet a challenge.
Diana is the sent through the doorway to evil which the Amazons are sworn to guard. Inside she is shocked to find a shell casing from a pistol. Wonder Woman is then attacked by Cottus. After dispatching the dark creature, she continues on to her next challenge, the Hydra.
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