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Book Title Wonder Woman
Issue Number: 127 (456)
Published: November 1997
Cover Artists: Garcia Lopez
Writer: John Byrne
Pencils: John Byrne
Inker: John Byrne
Letterer: John Byrne
Colourist: Patricia Mulvihill
Editor: Paul Kupperberg
Story Title: Transfiguration
 
Main Characters (in order of appearance):
Takion

Orion

Lightray

Artemis

Hippolyta Donna Troy
Cassie Sandsmark Julia Kapatelis Vanessa Kapatelis
Wonder Woman
(Princess Diana)
Bronson Doctor Zeul

Mike Schorr

Hera Helena Sandsmark
Merlin Jason Blood Steve Trevor
Etta Candy    

Cover of Wonder Woman #127
Comments:

As a life long Wonder Woman fan, I find this issue to contain a couple of disturbingly gruesome pieces of dialogue regarding Diana. After her autopsy (which we thankfully do not see!) two morticians carry her remains down to the morgue. One comments "Man, that was grim! Never thought I'd have to load what's left of Wonder Woman into a body bag" and when it becomes clear she is alive as the bag begins to move... "She can't be!! I had her brain in my hands for cripes sake!" . Once again, many fans felt that Byrne had little real respect for the character and what she truly stands for, relagating DC's most iconic superheroine to merely another "female victim".

Plot Summary:

Diana's body is finally killed outright in a failed body transfer experiment attempted by Dr Zeul. As an autopsy is performed to ascertain the actual cause of death Hippolyta prays to the Gods of Olympus, who duly answer her request and resurrect the Amazon Princess as a new deity known as the "Goddess of Truth".


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