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Issue: Wonder Woman #288

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Publication Date: February 1982

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Issues: #288 of 329 Issues (475 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/05/1981

Volume: 41

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893072502

Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #196.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock:

Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #211, 214, 217, 300)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants2

Wonder Woman #288 [Direct]

Wonder Woman #288 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

Look Out, World! The Sensational New Wonder Woman Is Bustin' Loose!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Gene Colan

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Woman

Character(s): Wonder Woman

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-788?

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.

Swan Song!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): Gene Colan

Inker(s): Romeo Tanghal

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Woman

Character(s): 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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 27

Job Number: J-7750

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

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Tamsyn O'Flynn

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Wonder Words

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-940

Notes: Letters from Pat White; Matt Kurtz; Charles D. Brown; Jim Asal.