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Issue: Wonder Woman #3
Publication Date: November 2005
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
Title: Beauty and the Beasts
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 09/21/2005
Volume: 3
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1401204848
UPC/EAN: 978140120484651999
Price: $26.99 CAD
$19.95 USD
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Content Items: 24 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Darkseid
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Beauty and the Beasts

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]
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Disclose Notes: Frontispiece. Essentially the cover illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #16, but enlarged and cropped.
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Wonder Woman: Beauty and the Beasts

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Darkseid; Theophilus Ventouras; Superman; Circe; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Title page with credits and publishing data. Includes vignettes from (in order) Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #15, Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #600, Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #19, #15, #15, #18, #17, #15 (cover), and #17.
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Our Story So Far...

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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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Disclose Notes: Text from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (DC, 1985 series) #26, with revisions. Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #15.
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]; Henry Cobb Armbruster; Maxine Sterenbuch; Solomon Buchman; Benjamin Buchman
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #15 [Direct] published April 1988
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Chapter One

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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #15.
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Swan Song

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Superman (in dream); Solomon Buchman; Myndi Mayer; Skeeter LaRue; Deni; Steve; Maxine Sterenbuch; Vanessa Kapatelis; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]; Henry Cobb Armbruster; Mr. Choi; Benjamin Buchman (on videotape); Etta Candy; Steve Trevor; Barry Locatelli; Eileen; Allison Clooney; Mrs. Kafora; Inspector Ed Indelicato
Synopsis: While Wonder Woman wrestles with her new feelings for Superman, preparations are being made for a charity fair in her name. Meanwhile, Solomon Buchman takes Maxine Sterenbuch captive and explains that her pen pal Valerie Beaudry has been the subject of an experiment and given mutant sonic disruption abilities and that Henry Cobb Armbruster has nefarious plans for her. These plans come to fruition at the fair, where Valerie attacks Wonder Woman as the Silver Swan.
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #15 [Direct] published April 1988
was Swan Song [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Skeeter refers to Alison Clooney as "Miz Cooney," but she is consistently Clooney in all later references.
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #16 [Direct] published May 1988
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Chapter Two

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #16.
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Bird of Paradise / Bird of Prey!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Steve Trevor; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]; Lieutenant Michael Shands; Inspector Ed Indelicato; Maxine Sterenbuch; Henry Cobb Armbruster; Vanessa Kapatelis; Barry Locatelli; Eileen; Skeeter LaRue; Allison Clooney; Mrs. Kafora; Mr. Choi; Superman (on poster and on phone, unseen); Chrissie Fenton; Myndi Mayer; Hermes
Synopsis: When the fight at the fair gets out of hand, the Silver Swan delivers Henry Cobb Armbruster's warning and flees the scene, but Wonder Woman follows and the two fight to a draw in the skies over Boston. Later, Diana discusses her feelings for Superman with Vanessa who urges Diana to get Myndi to set up a meeting between the two, while Hermes is being pursued across the halls of Olympus by an unseen foe.
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #16 [Direct] published May 1988
was Bird of Paradise / Bird of Prey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Though Skeeter calls her "Mz. Cooney" in the previous story, Wonder Woman calls her "Allison Clooney" in this story.
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Superman
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #600 [Direct Sales] published May 1988
was Action Comics #600 [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reprint of the frontispiece illustration from the original issue, not the cover.
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Wonder Woman: Chapter Three

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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Darkseid
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #600.
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Different Worlds

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Wonder Woman [Diana]; Hermes; Myndi Mayer; Chrissie Fenton; Darkseid; Desaad; Amazing Grace [also as Wonder Woman]; Kalibak [also as Superman]; parademon
Synopsis: Hermes summons Wonder Woman to Olympus from her romantic meeting with Superman, and the Man of Steel follows, but they arrive in different locations. After Hermes explains to Diana that Olympus has been taken over by Darkseid, the New God toys with the heroes, making them battle, as he discusses with Desaad his plans. When Superman and Wonder Woman find Darkseid and point out that he has conquered nothing as the Olympians abandoned their home, Darkseid sets off explosives throughout Olympus and leaves. But Olympus immediately regenerates and Wonder Woman and Superman return home as friends.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #600 [Direct Sales] published May 1988
was Different Worlds [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: Story broken up into chapters: "Chapter One: First Date...," pp. 1-7; "Chapter Two: Fallen Idols," pp. 8-12; "Chapter Three: Broken Mirrors," pp. 13-20; "Chapter Four: Battle!," pp. 21-24; and "Chapter Five: This Hollow Victory...," pp. 25-32. Darkseid tells Desaad that the Olympian gods are creations of the same energy released by the battle of the old gods that created Apokolips and New Genesis, though Circe describes a very different process of generation of the gods in Wonder Woman #19 when she explains to Diana that the New Gods had their genesis in the energy released by the Titans conflict with the Olympians.
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #17 [Direct] published June 1988
was Traces... [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Chapter Four

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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #17.
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Traces

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Steve Trevor; Lieutenant Etta Candy; Vanessa Kapatelis; Eileen; Hippolyte; Menalippe; Hellene; Philippus; Hermes; Apollo; Hestia; Aphrodite; Hera; Athena; Artemis; Heracles; Zeus; Dionysus; Hephaestus; Julia Kapatelis; Stavros Christadoulodou; Paul Drivas; Myndi Mayer; Chrissie Fenton; Circe; Mikos
Synopsis: As she and Vanessa prepare to join Julia in Greece, Diana receives a message from her mother with news of home. Meanwhile, on Olympus Zeus makes plans for a cosmic migration of the Greek gods. Back on Earth, Diana tours the sacred spots of Greece and draws the attention of a sinister woman.
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #17 [Direct] published June 1988
was Traces [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Vanessa Kapatelis
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #18 [Direct] published July 1988
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Chapter Five

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #18.
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Creatures of the Dark

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Zeus; Hades; Poseidon; Julia Kapatelis; Vanessa Kapatelis; Stavros Christadoulodou; Demetrios; Theophilus Ventouras; Mikos; Angelina; Katina Leikos; Spiros; Agostos Deneiros; Maria Deneiros; Circe; Peter Deneiros (in photo); David Kapatelis (in photo); Gregori; Andrea
Synopsis: The three sons of Chronus make a new pact eliminating their separate realms of authority, while, in Greece, the tension between those allied with the witch on the island and those conspiring against her ignites into a firestorm after the rebels kill Theophilus' nephew, forcing Wonder Woman to face Circe's army of monsters.
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #18 [Direct] published July 1988
was Creatures of the Dark [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Circe; Julia Kapatelis
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #19 [Direct] published August 1988
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Wonder Woman: Chapter Six

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Character(s): Circe
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #19.
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The Witch on the Island

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Julia Kapatelis; Vanessa Kapatelis; Katina Leikos; Circe [Cassandra Colchis]; Theophilus Ventouras; Gregori; Hecate; Artemis; Demeter; Zeus; Posiedon; Hades; Darkseid; Hera; Artemis; Antiope; Theseus; Mikos; Hermes
Synopsis: Wonder Woman is subdued and taken to the island of Aeaea by Circe's beasts. There, Circe explains how she had made an alliance with the goddess Hecate in order to take revenge on those who wronged her and sow the seeds of distrust between men and women. Circe sees Diana and her mission as a threat to that cause and prepares a spell to revert Diana to the clay from which she was formed. However, Julia and the rebels storm Circe's lair and delay Circe just enough for divine intervention to put an end to her schemes.
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From Content Item: FlagWonder Woman #19 [Direct] published August 1988
was The Witch on the Island [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Theophilus' name is spelled "Theophilos" in this story.
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Wonder Woman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from the two-page profile in Who's Who in the DC Universe (DC, 1990 series) #4.
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The Challenges Continue...

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Character(s): Wonder Woman [Diana]; Silver Swan [Valerie Beaudry]; Maxine Sterenbuch; Henry Cobb Armbruster (partially obscured)
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Disclose Notes: Illustration from the cover to Wonder Woman (DC, 1987 series) #15.

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