The best Wonder Woman stories of all time - bohnsackeves1987

DC continued its month-long-run celebration of ogdoad decades of Wonder Woman with the October 5 release of the Wonder Fair sex 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Striking.

Like DC's previous 80th anniversary the special features quadruple bran-new stories by all-star creative teams celebrating different eras in Wonder Woman's storied history.

So we're sledding to adopt suit with a slight spin and look at some classic stories starring Diana of Themyscira by all-star creative teams (including a healthy portion of George Perez) in our look at the top-quality Wonder Woman stories ever.

10. 'For a G Years,' Action Comics #761 (2000)

I know, I eff. Action Comics #761 (collected in Battery-acid: City of London of Tomorrow Vol. 1) isn't a Admiration Woman story per se, but if having her and Superman team with Thor to defend Asgard from a demon invasion doesn't nonplus your blood pumping, I'm worried for you.

Spell the carry out and setting are enceinte, the story aside Joe Kelly is really close to friendly relationship you bet Dot and Wonder Cleaning woman coexist as platonic friends for (look for it ...) one thousand years out of respect to his family relationship with Lois Lane. While Lois does fall prey to a bit bit of green-eyed monster, Diana never does - despite sustenance with Clark in Asgard for a millennium.

Sealing the deal, creative person Teutonic Garcia delivers an epic sense of scale despite the much more familiar focus of the story.

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9. JLA: A Conference of One (2002)

Superhero teams can be really merriment when writers know how to balance them. But only too much, one or two characters get the short end of the stick. That's certainly been true of Question Woman at different times in her Justice Conference tenure, just Christopher Moeller's JLA: A League of One one-colourful seeks to remedy that a little bit.

A prophecy proclaims that the Justice League volition fall at the claws of an ancient firedrake. To save the League, Diana decides that only one member of the squad should be close to to face the threat: Marvel Woman herself.

Moeller plays with themes just about sacrifice and duty while rendering the activity with the merciful of fantasy-titled art that made him so popular with the Wizardly: The Gathering set. Lady Diana Frances Spencer's self-sacrifice is a key to her character and Moeller pushes it to the forefront in this story.

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8. Admiration Adult female: Hiketeia (2003)

Due to her power arranged, Wonder Woman has always been seen Eastern Samoa more of an equal to Superman than other DC characters. But Greg Rucka and J.G. Jones's exploration of her relationship to Batman in Marvel Charwoman: Hiketeia proves to be just equally, if non more, powerful.

The Hiketeia refers to a sacred usage of supplication and protection. A young girl onymous Danielle becomes Wonder Woman's ward after escaping sex traffickers - killing them in self-defence during the escape.

Of course, that runs riposte to Batman's philosophy about justice, setting him on a crash of course with Diana. This story is a great rumination on the product of morality and justice, a must-read for fans of any of Rucka's work.

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7. 'Challenge of the Gods,' Wonder Woman (1987) #8-14

Not content to simply redefine Wonder Woman's origins, George Perez secondhand the second arc of his outpouring with co-writer Len Wein (assembled in Wonder Cleaning woman Past George Perez Vol. 1) to expand Diana's world.

Still dealing with the patriarchy, she had to contend with newfound celebrity and the introduction of one of the longest-lasting iterations of her nemesis the Cheetah.

Chetah's lust for power ran very counter to Princess of Wales's beliefs, providing the foundation for a of import enhancer and a formidable foe for Wonder Woman.

A key to the greatness of Perez's run was divorcing Diana's history from the Judicature League and letting her stand on her own. She didn't commence her history As a character defined by the men more or less her, and Perez, on with editors Janice Race and Karen Berger, were determined to make that the incase again.

Perez and Wein dove into the origins of Wonder Woman's costume, her contention with her blighter Amazons, and just what happens when you turn down the advances of the king of the Hellenic language gods, Zeus himself - stage setting a decades-long case law for Wonder Woman's relationship with the gods of Olympus.

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6. 'The Twelve Labors,' Wonder Woman (1942) #212-222

At the end of the '60s and into the '70s, Question Woman became a stylish spy thriller in the vein of Henry James Bond operating theatre the Avengers (not the ones you'Ra thinking, the separate Avengers). But at the behest of another women's rightist icon, Gloria Steinem, DC decided to return Wonder Woman to her heroic roots and traditional costume.

In the story arc collected as Wonderment Woman: The Twelve Labors, a depowered Diana had to complete twelve tasks to prove herself and equal readmitted into the Department of Justice League (a la the mythological twelve labors of Hercules). To deal the new take, DC rolled out a murderer's course of Tan Years talent including Curt Swan, Martin Pasko, and Len Wein (who would ulterior team with St. George Perez for another reboot of the character reference).

A res publica of constant flux would come to define Diana for much of the '70s as rotating creative teams and editorial edicts that wanted to move the book nearer in sync to the TV show up were the norm. Merely 'The Twelve Labors' stands as one of the most consistent stories during that period, ray-establishing Wonder Woman's station among her fellow superheroes.

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5. 'Paradise Lost,' Wonder Woman (1987) #164-#170

After George Perez, Phil Jimenez mightiness be the most definitive artist in Wonder Cleaning woman's chronicle, thanks to his eye for figure and plotting. (Though recent artists such as Nicola Scott and Bilquis Evely take in ready-made big impacts as advantageously).

Cobalt-written with J.M. Dematteis, Joe Kelly, and George Perez himself, Jimenez's 'Paradise Irrecoverable' collection is a heavy balance of big and small moments for Wonder Char. The 'Gods of Gotham' plot line sees her take on Batman's regular rogues who have been powered up by the pantheon of gods. And if that's not sufficient she has an Amazon civil war to contend with when she gets back to Themyscira in the pursuit two issues.

Merely the conclusion of this collection is the real draw. #170 features a uncomparable-away story named 'She's a Wonder' that takes a look at the relationship betwixt Diana and Lois Lane. Lois learns what it means to represent Wonder Woman in an emergence that is some heartfelt and susceptible.

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4. 'The Circle,' Wonder Woman (2005) #14-17

In the awaken of Infinite Crisis, D.C. was looking to bring Wonder Woman back to her roots and called upon Gail Simone to do the deed. Accordingly, Simone's forward arc 'The Circle' faced yet another refocusing of Diana's origins to fit the current submit of the DCU.

Thankfully, Simone perplexed the landing, giving Diana a new occupation as an agent for the Section of Metahuman Affairs, a new love interest in gent agent Tom Tresser, and a somewhat redefined relationship with her mother and birthplace.

Simone brings the humor and compassion she's known for to Wonder Womanhood, balancing the more Golden Age elements of the plotting like talking gorillas and Nazi punching with the essential traits of the innovative Diana.

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3. 'Eyes of the Gorgon,' Wonder Woman (1987) #206-213

Greg Rucka attained his repute as one of Wonder Woman's nearly heralded writers away dialing in on the values and concepts that define Lady Diana Frances Spencer at her essence. Job-resolution and critical thinking has ever been her hallmarks - and Rucka puts those traits into direct sharpen in 'Eyes of the Gorgon' by establishing Wonder Woman in the role of Themyscira's persuasion ambassador to the Incorporated States.

Of course of instruction, that also sets up a prime chance for her rogues' gallery to make their move, unleashing the mighty Medusa to go off toe-to-square-toed with Wonder Woman.

Rucka's progressive acquire on the pantheon of gods is fun, but it's the sacrifice that Diana is forced to makes this story matchless for the ages.

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2. 'Gods & Mortals,' Wonder Woman (1987) #1-7

Post-Crisis on Unnumbered Earths, DC had a stack of room to reinvent its characters and drill them down to the nigh basic concepts. But with Question Woman's constant reinventions all over the old age, that task was daunting.

Enter George Perez (his name has rally a few times on this list). While the writer/artist only meant to abide along the book to get things started before leaving her to separate creators, He instead became enraptured with Princess of Wales and 'Gods and Mortals' kicked murder a now-legendary 60-issue melt.

'Gods and Mortals' refocused the origins of Diana, the Amazons, Themyscira, and their connection to the gods. It featured a confrontation with Ares and Diana's first foray into the human race of manpower. This story laid the foundation for basically everything that has come since - a modern take on her classical origins that has for the most part endured for decades.

And did we mention Perez's excellent art? Sufferin' Sappho! In 1987, the valet de chambre was a force to be reckoned with and these pages prove why his legacy with DC's warrior princess lasts to this Clarence Shepard Day Jr..

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1. 'Battle for Womanhood,' Wonder Woman (1942) #5

In a 1943 matter of The American Scholar, William Moulton Marston wrote, "Non even girls want to be girls so long as our unstressed archetype lacks force, strength, and power... The obvious remediate is to create a feminine character with complete the strength of Demigod nonnegative all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."

Wonder Char is unworkable to separate from the life and ideas of her creators Marston and his two partners, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne. Marston was a psychologist and the discoverer of the systolic profligate pressure test that would chair to the polygraph - as well as an unapologetic feminist who believed in feminine favourable position and subtly coded Wonder Woman A indefinite of the first queer characters in comic Good Book history, a trait that has become openly canyon in modern times. He also famously used slavery as a metaphor in Wonder Cleaning lady for men's oppression of women.

Marston treasured to make a character who won each solar day with love rather than pure strength and in Diana Prince, he was able to set that.

Collected in Inquire Cleaning lady; The Golden Age Vol. 1, 'Struggle for Womanhood' is just one example of William protrusive to that formula through. With Doctor Psycho menacing American women and threatening to return them to the days of "clanking chains and abject captivity," Wonder Cleaning woman uses non just her might to foil his game and saving Steve Trevor, simply her wit and the strength of her friends... and maybe a kangaroo that could jump into space. (Hey, the Golden Age can be a shrimpy wacky specially when Hg Peters is handling the artistic production.)

But Marston was keen to ne'er lose the plot as Wonder Woman declares in the final panel "Earth girls can stop manpower's power for satanic when they refuse to be submissive by vicious men!"

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