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This series was sold exclusively at Walmart stores in the United States. It was part of a larger partnership with DC Comics which was launched in July 2018. The first issue continued the story from Justice League Giant #7 but subsequent issues featured one original story per issue and various reprints from Wonder Woman and Justice League titles .
The final issue was published in August 2019 and was replaced by a new series with the same name starting in September 2019, although the new series was not exclusive to Walmart.
The main story “Come Back To Me” was subsequently re-printed as a mini series in 2020.
Synopsis - Come Back To Me - Part Seven
The TSB Federation tells Princess Sibella she is under arrest and will be killed along with those accompanying her if she doesn’t surrender peacefully. Diana tells Steve not to intervene as they’re outmatched, while Sibella states she doesn’t remember stealing her starship along with the crew and states the people with her have nothing to do with it. The TSB Federation soldiers realize they’re telling the truth but regardless have to arrest her. Sibella’s robots rush to stop them despite her telling them not to, and she gets knocked out by them after they override her command to desist from attacking.
Diana and her compatriots run away during the firefight, but the TSB soldiers send flying spinning blades after them. She tells everyone to split up to evade them more easily and falls off a cliff’s edge along with Steve while escaping a blade. After emerging out of the water, she is unable to find Steve and dives underwater to search for him. She rescues him after finding him drowning and takes him to a beach where he wakes up in the morning. Diana tells him that though they were able to escape, they’ve lost contact with the others.
As they go to find their compatriots, Steve learns Diana’s ankle has healed and time on the island passes faster while people from different timelines are showing up here. She thinks that what happened to them and others happened for a purpose, stating how she lost him and then how she was made to follow him while taking away her powers, how Jonah lost Tallulah, with strange incidents happening every time they get some relief. Steve wonders if it’s the same as the TV show about a similar TV entertainment show, making Diana realize they’re in a game for others’ entrainment. They soon come upon Atlantis which has mysteriously appeared near the island and Aquaman battling the monsters attacking it.
Two mysterious people who are watching what’s happening praise the choices picked for the island and state it’s time. As Aquaman spots Diana, he gets thrown far away by a monster before they can help. Steve tells Diana to run as they get attacked, but get mysteriously teleported to a spaceship before they can be harmed. As they fall unconscious, they are placed in cryostasis along with their comrades who have also been abducted.
Synopsis - The Villain's Journey - Chapter One: The Call for Adventure
This story is reprinted from Justice League (Volume 2) #9.
Four years ago, a terminally ill David Graves consults his Doctor about his worsening condition. The Doctor tells him that his body is failing, and wonders why he hasn’t contacted the Justice League, as they could potentially help him if they knew how he became sick. David says that the League cannot help him, and shoots his doctor, believing that he can only save himself.
Four years later, in Washington, D.C., Colonel Steve Trevor is stopped outside a liquor store by two paparazzi who ask about Wonder Woman dumping him and whether it was due to her attraction to another member of the Justice League. After punching one of them, Steve goes to his sister’s house for dinner, showing how much he cares for her and her children.
In Gotham, Batman thinks about the letter he recently received from The Flash while remembering his childhood. Alfred tells him that the super-villain The Key has broken-into Arkham Asylum, and Bruce cancels a meeting to intervene.
In Metropolis Perry White praises Lois Lane for driving up newspaper sales. Steve Lombard jokes that he should marry her and she’s gonna become old if she keeps waiting for Superman to which she states that he’s waiting for her. She offers to buy tacos for some of her friends while Clark is left alone at his office and reminisces about being left alone in high school. He then receives a text message from Bruce Wayne asking if he has any “lunch plans.”
At Arkham Asylum, Batman and Superman work together to subdue the chaos caused by the released prisoners, and attempt to find the Key. Cyborg arrives, and pulls up the prison’s schematics in order to locate their intruder.
Steve Trevor arrives at his apartment, only to find the TV on. Thinking someone is there, he draws his gun and a mysterious figure approaches him and kidnaps him.
In Central City, the Flash and Green Lantern have just taken down the Weapons Master, after someone attacked Iron Heights to free him. After Flash fails at interrogating the criminal, the two call in Wonder Woman.
Back at Arkham, Superman, Batman, and Cyborg find the Key, who tells them that he broke into Arkham so he could escape from a mysterious attacker.
Both villains then reveal that they were both confronted by an individual who wanted to know the Justice League’s weaknesses. This man was named “Graves”.
In an undisclosed location, Steve Trevor is tortured for information about the League by Graves. While Steve resists the pain, Graves then threatens to harm Steve’s sister and her children. Steve submits.
Synopsis - Who Is Wonder Woman? - Part Two
This story is reprinted from Wonder Woman (Volume 3) #2.
In a flashback sequence we see that Diana has been watching Donna’s new career as Wonder Woman from the shadows. During one such reconnaissance she is joined on a rooftop by Batman, who states that he thought she had walked away from all this. She replies that she had stepped down as Wonder Woman but had not abandoned Donna or Cassie. She adds that it is best they do not know she has returned as avoid being tarred with the same brush as she has as a “killer”. She in turn wants to fulfil her mission here in Man’s World as herself – not as an icon.
Batman then hands her a security pass and says that he has an idea of how she can accomplish that without revealing her identity. He explains that he has arranged for her to become an agent working for the Department of Metahuman affairs under the alias “Diana Prince”. That way she can still keep close to her friends and her enemies while remaining under cover.
We then switch back to the present day as Diana is being briefed by Sarge Steel and Nemesis on the improved powers and abilities of the villains that have kidnapped Donna, and how they intend to use Donna as a bargaining chip to lure the real Wonder Woman out of hiding.
They also explain what they know already about Wonder Woman’s whereabouts – that she was last seen over Themyscira facing down an army of OMACs before seemingly disappearing along with the rest of the island. They also had had reports that she had teamed up temporarily with a Chinese Mystic code named I Ching (!).
Pretending to be naive, Diana responds that this woman could not possibly have been Wonder Woman or else the authorities would have simply arrested her for the murder of Maxwell Lord? She is informed that Wonder Woman has in fact been cleared of all charges relating to his death, because it was deemed to have been an act of self defence on her part. She is then instructed to keep an eye on Cassie Sandsmark, who the government believe will be the villains’ next target.
Diana takes this opportunity to reveal her true identity to Cassie who is furious for being kept in the dark and for Diana “running out on them”.
She flies off in anger leaving Diana to wonder if she has done the right thing. Giganta then appears in the street wearing Donna around her neck on a chain, demanding Wonder Woman shows herself.
A fight ensues as Wonder Girl takes on the villains. Dr. Psycho tricks Wonder Girl into believing Superboy has returned, but before the villains can strike, Robin rescues her. The watching Diana is then grabbed by Cheetah, who thinks she is holding an ordinary citizen hostage. She demands Wonder Girl reveals the whereabouts of Wonder Woman. A still angry Cassie almost implies that she is right under Cheetah’s nose!
Diana manages to shake off Cheetah and races down an alleyway, intending to transform into her Wonder Woman costume. She begins to spin round but is stopped from doing so by Hercules, who informs the amazed Amazon Princess that due to the fact so many women have failed in this mission to Man’s World, it is time for a Man to take up the fight!
