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Wonder Woman #220 page 3

Location: DC
Artists: Neal Adams (Inker) ,  Dick Giordano (Inker) ,  Klaus Janson (Inker) ,  Joe Barney (Layouts)

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Artwork Details
Location: DC
Title: Wonder Woman #220 page 3*
Artist:  Neal Adams (Inker) ,  Dick Giordano (Inker) ,  Klaus Janson (Inker) ,  Joe Barney (Layouts)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 149
Likes on CAF: 14
Comments: 18
Added to Site: 4/28/2026

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Four pages from this story were sold on Heritage over several years, and the identification of the artists is different for each listing – and none of them are quite right, it seems. I got this one from Heritage in 2015, and it was listed as all Dick Giordano. My brother recalled the full story, as told by Joe Barney (and then found in Bryan Stroud's interview with Joe Barney in 2019).

Joe Barney joined Adams’ Continuity Studio, and his first job in comics was to do pencils for this Wonder Woman issue in 1975, which Giordano didn’t have time to do on his own. Adams got Barney to do layouts, which Adams then corrected and drew over with a Pentel pen. That page was then projected onto board vertically, using an Artograph. The layouts were ‘polished’ by Barney until they could be inked.

Giordano was described as the main inker, but it looks like he may only have done the Diana Prince faces on this page. Adams clearly inked the first panel of Elongated Man and Red Tornado, and – although not mentioned in the interview – my brother identified Klaus Janson as the inker of the two figures in the lower left panel – and those lines really do look like Janson from that period. Terry Austin and Bob Wiacek, Giordano’s assistants at the time, are mentioned – but unless someone can spot them, it doesn’t look as if either had anything to do with this page. So Janson may have done other parts of the backgrounds on this particular page, with those inkers perhaps being given other pages to finish.

It was a “Crusty Bunkers” team effort in the Adams style of studio work. I think the story worked out well, and I was pleased to get one of the pages via Heritage. Thanks to my brother for sorting out the attributions (not all of which I could add on CAF).

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Rick W Member Since 2017
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Posted On 4/28/2026

You and your brother have a keen eye and I must agree with the doctor's assessment, Ms. Prince is in "fine shape" ;)

 

West Stephan Member Since 2007
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

Love the goofiness of Elongated Man. Fun page!

Ron B Member Since 2024
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

A fine page, and fine detective work as well! Congrats

Danny Kiihnl Member Since 2022
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

A great team effort to produce a fantastic page!

Kavi H Member Since 2018
2    
Posted On 4/28/2026

I think you and your brother may be the Comic Art Detective Agency we in the hobby all need! May as well setup shop and hang a sign on the door like Jessica Jones ;-) - beautiful Crusty Bunkers team up on this WW page, congrats!

Paul Roach Member Since 2014
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Posted On 4/29/2026

Kavi H wrote:
" I think you and your brother may be the Comic Art Detective Agency we in the hobby all need! May as well setup shop and hang a sign on the door like Jessica Jones ;-) - beautiful Crusty Bunkers team up on this WW page, congrats! "

Ha ha! Well my brother used to do a lot of that kind of work on his Facebook page. But after getting kicked off for the third time, for no obvious violation, he's run out of ideas for how to get back on. The door sign is definitely a new twist. Thanks, Kavi!

Miki Annamanthadoo Member Since 2003
1    
Posted On 6/2/2026

Paul Roach wrote:
" Ha ha! Well my brother used to do a lot of that kind of work on his Facebook page. But after getting kicked off for the third time, for no obvious violation, he's run out of ideas for how to get back on. The door sign is definitely a new twist. Thanks, Kavi! "

I really enjoyed your brother's Facebook page!

Michael  McIsaac Member Since 2020
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

Fascinating to think of all of the talent on display on this page.

Marcus Wai Member Since 2005
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

I dig the continuity influence in these lates 70's to early 80's DC books.  You never know how much Neal did during this era because it was a whole studio's identity.  Very pretty Diana faces!

* bronze-is-gold Member Since 2007
1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

Great page!  And very cool to understand all the hands on this page and where (looks like you should add an addendum to the Grand Comics Database).  Giordano's Diana is always a treat!

1    
Posted On 4/28/2026

Beautiful!

E DLS Member Since 2005
2    
Posted On 4/29/2026

My eyes tell me the same thing.  Adams for panel 1.  Janson for panel 5.  And Giordana for the Diana faces.

Al Simpleton Member Since 2013
1    
Posted On 4/29/2026

I love these enigma/patchwork jobs where multiple artists lent a hand! Trying to figure out who did what is always fun... Nice page too!

Duke  Fleed Member Since 2013
1    
Posted On 4/29/2026

Girls with Glasses, am I right?!!  Love Red Tornado here too. Beautiful addition!

David Roach Member Since 2012
1    
Posted On 4/29/2026

Such a great page from a great issue, towards the end of that whole Diana Prince/JLA stioryline, and one of the nicest looking. There's a lot of Adams in this issue, but I'm going to give a shout out to Dick Giordano who drew several gorgous solo issues a few years before this and really does Diana proud here too (Amazing cover as well- I wonder where that is?). Giordano must be one of the most underrated artists of the 70s.

Simon Ma Member Since 2013
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Posted On 5/25/2026

That is a truly amazing piece of detective work by you and your brother. I might have had an inkling of who the inker was with a bigger sample but discerning the work on individual figures is flabbergasting and would be beyond my ken. There is a similar arrangement with a curious issue of Mr Miracle, the first 1970s revived issue 19, which was inked by “Ilya Hunch” and who was revealed by the editor in the following issue as an amalgam of nine different artists including the great Neal Adams and that was for the most part inking individual characters rather than individual entire pages.

Paul Roach Member Since 2014
Posted On 5/27/2026

Simon Ma wrote:
" That is a truly amazing piece of detective work by you and your brother. I might have had an inkling of who the inker was with a bigger sample but discerning the work on individual figures is flabbergasting and would be beyond my ken. There is a similar arrangement with a curious issue of Mr Miracle, the first 1970s revived issue 19, which was inked by “Ilya Hunch” and who was revealed by the editor in the following issue as an amalgam of nine different artists including the great Neal Adams and that was for the most part inking individual characters rather than individual entire pages. "

My brother must have the bulk of the credit. I can go so far, but for David it seems an innate talent to spot an artist at a hundred paces. And yes, Adams really seemed to enjoy those hidden credits. Thanks!

Miki Annamanthadoo Member Since 2003
1    
Posted On 6/2/2026

I would have missed the Adams contribution. Thanks for pointing it out! Great Crusty Bunkers page!

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