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Wonder Woman Complete Reading Guide

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Diana Prince is one of DC’s most famous characters, with a rich history of more than 75 years! In the following guideline we will try to be as detailed as possibe but we’re sure that will inevitably miss something. Our plan is to include her most important appearances from her debut in All Star Comics #8 (1941) until November 2017. For the sake of brevity, we’ve chosen to put the stories we judged as most essential or most enjoyable in bold!

The list under the cut is separated in 5 parts:

Pre Crisis Era (1941-1986)

Post Crisis Era (1987-2011)

New 52 Era (2011-2016)

Rebirth Era (2016-2017)

Out of main continuity Graphic Novels and Stories

All Star Comics (1940) #8 (Debut), 11-57 Sensation Comics (1942) #1-106 [#1-8] Wonder Woman (1942) #1-329 [#1, 7, 21, 28, 63, 66, 98, 99, 107, 127, 159, 163, 178, 179, 200-202, 204-206, 212-23, 270, 271, 287-289, 291-293, 300, 308, 329] Comics Cavalcade (1942) #1-29 The Brave and the Bold (1955) #28-30 (creation of justice league), 63, 78, 87, 105, 131, 140, 158 Justice League of America (1960) #1, 2-261 +Annual 1-3 Super Friends (1976) #1-47 All-Star Squadron (1981) #1-4, 13-60 + Annual 1-3

Note: In team titles we have bolded the stories that are centered around Diana! Her most important title is her second volume (1987-2005) and because of it’s… interesting story we decided to write a brief (personal) opinion about each team and also include some trigger warnings.

Wonder Woman v2 (1987) #1-226 + Annuals #1-8 + Wonder Woman Special #1 (1992) + Secret files and Origins #1-3

George Perez: #1-62 +Annuals #1,2 [#1-24 +Annual #1, 25-40, 41-44, 45-50, 51-57]

Perez is one of the classic Wonder Woman writers; he reinvented her origins and he managed to showcase who she is as a person, in a way that few writers ever did. His run is not without it’s faults, his writing is too wordy and very dry at times and some of his themes are very dated. But besides these faults, it’s a very good read that it’s worthy of your time. warning: mentions of rape and even some dated views about this matter

William Messner Loebs: Wonder Woman Special #1, #63, #64-89, 0, 90-100 + Annuals #3,4

If George Perez is one of the best Wonder Woman writers, then Loebs is the one of the worst. At best his run is a silly 90s nonsense (like Diana being a space pirate), but Loebs’ worst is unforgivable. The only memorable things about his run is the Brian Bolland covers and the introduction of Artemis of Bana Mighdall. His writing alongside Mike Deodato Jr’s criminally awful art is one of the worst things that happened to Wonder Woman’s comics. warning: if you do decide to read this run keep in mind that in #100 there’s a graphic, hypersexualized torture/ death scene.

John Byrne: #101-136 + Annuals #5,6 [#105-107, 122-127]

John Byrne’s run continues the 90s silly nonsense but this time is not criminally bad, maybe a little forgetable (or even boring?). The most important things were the introduction of Cassie Sandsmark, Donna’s well intentioned but confusing new origins, Artemis becoming Cassie’s trainer, Hippolyta going back in time and becoming the Wonder Woman of WW2/Golden Age of comics. But to be fair, Byrne brought back together the Wonderfam and he gave us some very sweet moments between them!

Eric Luke: #139-159 + Annuals #7, 8 [Annual #8, #154-155]

Christopher Priest’s wrote 2 bad issues (#137-138) before Luke took over the title. His run is very forgetable, the only event worth mentioning was the re-introduction of Nubia, and that wasn’t even him but Doselle Young, who guest wrote the bolded issues above…

Phil Jimenez #164-188 [#164-170, 174-176, 177]

Before Jimenez, the great Brian K. Vaughan guest wrote two issues (#160-161) the story is pretty forgetable but fun. Jimenez, clearly loves Wonder Woman; it’s obvious from the first issue. His run wasn’t great but it was good, better than anything we had since Perez. He suffered from some of the same issues as Perez and Byrne did; notably that the pages were too wordy and tiring. He tried to fix as many mistakes as he could from the bad previous 100 issues of this volume, and while he didn’t always succeed, he tried. He developed the relationship between the wonderfam as no one else before or after him did. All things considered, Jimenez’s run is the strongest Wonder Woman run since Perez.

Greg Rucka: #195-226

Greg Rucka. That’s all we have to say. This is the best run ever in any Wonder Woman comic ever. Read every single issue! Even better, before start this run read first his solo graphic novel Wonder Woman: Hiketeia!

Wonder Woman (2006) #1-44, 600, 601-614 + Annual #1

- 1-4 + Annual 1, Gail Simone’s run (#14-44,600): 14-19, 20-35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 44, 600

Team Titles

Justice League/ Justice League America (1987) #40-77. She becomes the leader in #78, #78-113 + Annual #6-8. Collected: vol 1, vol 2 JLA (1997) #1-125 + Annuals #1-4 + 80 Page Giant #1-3 + JLA Secret Files. Diana centered issues are: #47-54, 62-64, 78-79, 90 JLA Classified (2005) #1-54 [1-5, 10-21] Justice League of America (2006) #0, 1-39, 41 Trinity (2008) #1-52

Other Appearances

52 (2006) #1-11, 12, 13, 17, 24, 25, 33, 41, 47-52 Brave and the Bold (2007) #7, 33 Outsiders Five of a Kind: Wonder Woman and Grace (2007) #1 Secret Six (2008) #10-14 Blackest Night: Wonder Woman (2009) #1-3 Flashpoint featuring Wonder Woman (2011) [collected volume]

New 52 is the worst thing to happen to her, we don’t recommend any of these, the bolded ones are only reluctantly recommended.

Wonder Woman (2011) #0-52 + Annual #1 Justice League (2011) #3-50 Superman/Wonder Woman (2013) #1-29 Batwoman (2011) #12-17 Aquaman Annual #2 (2014) Deathstroke (2014) #7-10 + Annual #1 Secret Origins (2014) #6 Teen Titans (2014) #17-19 Convergence: Wonder Woman (2015) #1-2

Rebirth is the current DC comics continuity, and features a Wonder Woman title that was excellent at its best! We recommend the rebirth Wonder Woman title for the first 30 issues, particularly #0-#25, which was Greg Rucka’s character redefining return to writing Wonder Woman comics. After Rucka, Shea Fontana wrote a nice but unremarkable 5 issue arc, and after Fontana, James Robinson became the new writer, and his Wonder Woman comics are better left unread.

Wonder Woman (2016) #1-ongoing [Rebirth #1, #1-25, Annual #1] Justice League (2016) Rebirth #1,#1- ongoing Wonder Woman: Celebration of 75 Years (2016) A Very DC Universe Rebirth Christmas (2016) Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #9 Justice League vs Suicide Squad (2016) #1-6 Trinity (2016) #1-ongoing + Annual #1 [#1-6] Titans (2016) Annual (2017) #1 Wonder Woman Steve Trevor Special (2017) Wonder Woman Tasmanian Devil Special (2017)

Superman / Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy (1996) #1-4 (not recommended) Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997) (not recommended) Justice Riders (1997) Tangent Comics/ Wonder Woman (1998) (not recommended) Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story (1998) Real Worlds: Wonder Woman (2000) JLA: A League of One (2000) Wonder Woman: Spirit of the Truth (2001) (classsic but not recommended) Just Imagine: Wonder Woman (2001) Wonder Woman: Hiketeia (2002) Batman/ Superman/ Wonder Woman: Trinity (2003) #1-3 Wonder Woman: Blue Amazon (2003) (not recommended) DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman (2011) #70s, 80s, 90s Wonder Woman: Earth One (2016) (not recommended) Wonder Woman: The True Amazon

Superman vs Wonder Woman (1978) The Legend of Wonder Woman (1986) #1-4 Injustice:Gods Among Us (2011)+ Year 2-5 + Annuals+ Ground Zero (not recommended) Smallville: Season 11 (2012) #56-69 + Smallville: Continuity (2015) #1-4 Sensation Comics featuring Wonder Woman (2014) #1-51 Justice League 3000 (2014) #1-15 Justice League 3001 (2015) #1-12 DC Bombshells (2015) #1-100 The Legend of Wonder Woman (2015) #1-27 Wonder Woman ‘77 (2015) #1-27 Batman ‘66 Meets Wonder Woman ‘77 (2016) #1-12 Wonder Woman ‘77 Meets The Bionic Woman (2016) #1-6 Bombshells United (2017) #1- ongoing Gotham City Garage (2017) #1- ongoing Injustice 2 (2017) #1- ongoing + Annual #1 (not recommended) Wonder Woman/Conan (2017) #1-6

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