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This one shot was part of the Dark Crisis Event.
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League – Wonder Woman -1
General Info
Issue No:
1
On Sale Date:
September 2022
Cover Date:
November 2022
Era:
DC Universe
Story Title:
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Wonder Woman
Creative Team
Cover Artist:
Leila del Duca
Writer:
Tini Howard
Penciller:
Leila del Duca
Inker:
Leila del Duca
Letterer:
Troy Peteri
Colourist:
Jordie Bellaire
Editor:
Chris Rosa, Paul Kaminski
Characters
Main:
Wonder Woman (Princess Diana)
Heroes:
Wonder Girl (Yara Flor)
Villains:
Doctor Psycho (Edgar Zizko)
Olympians:
N/A
Amazons:
Artemis, Bia, Hippolyta, Nubia
Other:
Barbara Minerva, Etta Candy, Jumpa, Gaia
Synopsis
Etta Beth Candy is inaugurated into her second term as President of the United States and her friend Wonder Woman takes her to the Triad, three linked islands where the three tribes of the Amazons live united under Queen Hippolyta, to be inducted as an honorary Amazon. The next day, Diana stumbles across Hippolyta meeting with Bia the Seer and several Amazon scholars. Hippolyta tries to hustle her out of the room but Diana refuses to leave and sees what appears to be a missile silo. She dives to the bottom of the shaft, revealed to the the Well of Souls, and finds her enemy Doctor Psycho in chains.
Doctor Psycho tells Diana that the nations of men went to war and destroyed the world, but Diana made a deal with the goddess Gaia to restore the planet’s ability to support life in exchange for imprisoning Psycho in the Well as a perpetual sacrifice. The Lasso of Truth proves what he is saying is true. Hippolyta and Nubia follow her down and tell Diana that they magically erased her memories of what she had done, but now that she knows the truth her deal with Gaia is broken. Hippolyta foresaw this and built a rocket to carry the Amazons to another world, but Diana refuses to leave as her sisters escape to the stars.
The world reverts to a wasteland and Doctor Psycho tells Diana that she chose to stay because she wants to be the only source of hope in a doomed world, and that her deepest desire is to be a goddess among mortals rather than just one among the Amazons. She tells him he is wrong and lets him go, then sets off to save the world.
