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Issue: Wonder Woman #256

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Publication Date: June 1979

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Issues: #256 of 329 Issues (475 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Whitman

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: Whitman TV Comic

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 38

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.40 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Ross Andru (editor)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

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

Paper Stock:

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

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants3

Wonder Woman #256 [Standard Distribution]

Wonder Woman #256 [UK Cover Price]

Wonder Woman #256 [Whitman]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Return of the Royal Flush Gang

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Jose Delbo

Inker(s): Vince Colletta

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Woman

Character(s): Wonder Woman; Royal Flush Gang

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-977

The Return of the Royal Flush Gang

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Paul Levitz

Penciller(s): Jose Delbo

Inker(s): Vince Colletta

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Woman

Character(s): Wonder Woman; Red Tornado (cameo); Royal Flush Gang [Jack; Queen; Ace of Spades; King; Ten [Mike Bailey]]; General Novak; Stacey Macklin; Farley (UN security); Justice League of America (cameo) [Flash, Batman, Hawkman]; Conrad Starfield

Synopsis: Wonder Woman is confounded by a series of robberies around the NASA base by the Royal Flush Gang, especially the location and identity of the hidden card-- the Ten.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: J-5932

Notes: Wonder Woman notes she can't go very far, or very fast, riding wind currents. Diana Prince is under investigation by Farley of UN security, who is shown holding Diana's file, which was stolen by Bushmaster in the previous issue, Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #255. Mike Bailey is revealed as the Ten, the inside man at NASA for the Royal Flush Gang. Diana Prince quits the astronaut program and moves back to New York to resume work at the UN.

Superman Meets the Orbitrons!

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman; Hostess Twinkies

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Pages: 1

Notes: Art credits confirmed from sale of original art at Heritage Auctions (https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/complete-story/curt-swan-and-tex-blaisdell-hostess-twinkies-ad-complete-1-page-story-superman-meets-the-orbitrons-original-art-dc-1974-/a/121848-11181.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Open-ThisAuction-120115).

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Woman

First Line: How would you like to come to New York City... ...And become a character in my Wonder Woman comic?

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Pages: 1

Notes: contest rules

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Jack C. Harris [as JCH]

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Wonder Words

Synopsis: Letters from Sarah Finnegan and Mike Burkhalter.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-253

Volume 76 [79] Issue 12 - Week of March 19, 1979

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): Bob Rozakis

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Daily Planet

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Pages: 1

Job Number: P-312