Comic Title: Wonder Woman:Challenge of the Gods TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2004
On Sale Date: September 9, 2004 Direct Market Date September 8, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 14 #7 (#187)

Direct Market Date September 9, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, September 9, 2004

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 176
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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 From:
Wonder Woman #10 (1987)

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.