COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Wonder Woman 1 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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4430697016
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Owner:
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StephenWA
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Wonder Woman, Volume 6, issue #1, LGY #801, November 2023. Variant cover by Artgerm.
Wonder Woman: Outlaw Part 1
Part of Dawn of DC, a branding initiative (logo lower-right corner) in 2023 and 2024.
Back cover promotes DC Dual Force, a digital collectible card game.
The story continues from the epilogue of the "Trinity" story in Wonder Woman #800; the Prime Earth events are narrated by the future counterpart of The Sovereign that Lizzie Prince met in the epilogue of that story.
The story starts in Montana; a brawl has broken out at Kanigher's Cues, a pool hall in West Billings, which resulted in a series of violent killings. The nineteen victims were men, and the perpetrator was a blond woman dressed in a uniform similar to that of Wonder Woman. News outlets are quick to cover the incident. The perpetrator has been identified as an Amazon, which puts both the Amazon embassy and the American government in a difficult situation...
Public opinion has become increasingly divided over the Amazons' continued presence in America. Some people, like little girls, love Wonder Woman. Others, like grown men, don't take kindly to the idea of women possibly wanting the entire world to be like their island. They believe that the Amazons are engaging in some kind of genocide and Americans should do something about it. In time, the Congress passed the Amazon Safety Act, which was signed by the President. Amazons were banned from the country, with the Amazon Embassy in DC getting shuttered; most Amazons living in the country, for whatever reason, agreeing to return home peacefully.
Wonder Woman becomes America's enemy and the government issued an arrest warrant for her. As the hunt for Wonder Woman begins, Diana goes to Washington DC and talks to Steve (Trevor). According to Diana, Steel was following orders from someone simply known as "the Sovereign".
Meanwhile, in a mansion, a servant puts a crown on the head of his master, who is dressed like a king and holding a black lasso, the Lasso of Lies. He is The Sovereign (real name Henry Charles) and he rules America with lies.
Notes:
1. The man who would be known as the hidden monarch of America originated as Henry Charles, whom hails from an infamous familial cadre of taciturn schemers who used a powerful mystical lariat to suborn the founding fathers of a burgeoning U.S. capital state 300yrs ago.
2. So there's a comic-book phenomon called "putting the toys back in the toy box", where writers usually reset things to a status quo so the next writer can do what they want without distraction. But that notably doesn't happen with WW. Instead, the writers tend to do what they want. Jimenez and Rucka are the only two that come to mind that played with established continuity for Diana as focal points of their runs. Tom King here is generally bad about it, but he's not alone in that regard. It's not too difficult to do an issue or two transitioning from the old status quo to the new, but TK doesn't bother with that; he prefers to write in a vaccum. Tom said he was inspired by Perez to do this run, which means that Tom is trying to give Wonder Woman a grand fresh start that doesn't technically erase continuity, but he's just not going to bother with past continuity.
CGC census 2/2025 = 330. 314 @9.8, just one higher @9.9.
Cover price: $5.99
William Moulton Marston (pen name Charles Moulton) - creator
Tom King - writer
Stanley "Artgerm" Lau - cover
Daniel Sampere - pencils and inks
Tomeu Morey - colourist
Clayton Cowles - letterer
Chris Rosa, Brittany Holzherr, and Paul Kaminski - editors. (48)
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