Comic Title: Wonder Woman #24
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: September 13, 1988 Shipping Date September 13, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 16, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Copyright Date September 13, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Newsstand Date October 9, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Combat Zone"
Pages: 22

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

Writer/Penciller: George Perez
Inker: Will A. Blyberg
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Wonder Woman:Destiny Calling TPB (2006)
Wonder Woman by George Perez Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2015)
Wonder Woman by George Perez Vol. 2 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman Annual #2)

Guest Star(s)

• Hermes (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman #26)

Supporting Character(s)

• Julia Kapatelis (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman #25)
• Vanessa Kapatelis (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman #25)
• Etta Candy (last appearance in Wonder Woman Annual #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #25)

Villain(s)

• Phobos (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman #26)
• Euryale (dies in this story; last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; no further appearances)
• Ixion the Assassin (dies in this story; last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Horace Westlake (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; next appearance in Wonder Woman #35)
• Omar Ramos (last appearance in Wonder Woman #23; no further appearances)
• Richter and Zelaya (police officers; Zelaya dies in this story; no further appearances)
• James Smith (a police captain; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Placide (a police lieutenant; no further appearances)
• Pat (a television camera operator; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Baines (a USAF major; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Wonder Woman #23.

Synopsis:
Phobos and Euryale have set a trap for Hermes. They steal his caduceus and use it to free Ixion the Assassin, the first mass murderer whom Hermes had imprisoned in Tartarus. Ixion then emerges onto the streets in Boston and begins killing people. The giant holds Hermes, who has been weakened and is unable to fight back.

Hermes uses the last of his strength to contact Wonder Woman. She comes to the Olympian's aid and carries Ixion into an unpopulated area. In the process, the giant drops Hermes who then regains his caduceus from Euryale after beheading her. With renewed strength, Hermes subdues Ixion.

With Tartarus unreachable due to the cosmic migration of the gods, Hermes plans to imprison the killer under Paradise Island making the Amazons guardians of evil once again. Wonder Woman objects. The debate is ended when Ixion charges into the oncoming fire of military aircraft and is killed. Wonder Woman's blind faith and obedience to Hermes is weakened. She then apologizes to Julia for letting the god come between them.