DC: Wonder Woman pages

DC has published Wonder Woman comics continuously since her inception in 1941. The sales have often not been great, but apparently the character rights revert back to the estate of her creator William Moulton Marston, if a comic bearing her name is not published at least four times a year. Or so the legend goes.

Diana was most consistently interesting in the controversial "mod" era around 1970 when she lost her powers and functioned as a kung-fu adventurer in the spirit of Emma Peel and Modesty Blaise. George Perez and John Byrne also had memorable runs with strong mythological bents. More recently, the Historia project lavishly depicts the origin of the Amazons with artistic techniques not available to mainstream comics in the Bronze Age.

Several of these pages come from Wonder Woman #47 (2015), near the end of the "New 52" era, shortly before the retro "Rebirth" era. Cheetah has come to Paradise Island in search of a powerful magic item, but she ends up with more than she bargained for. I have six pages of this action sequence in which Wonder Woman tracks and then confronts Cheetah in the Amazonian jungle.

Miguel Mendonça put impressive effort into these tight pencils, rendering the arboreal background as lovingly as the foreground figures. Dexter Vines put similar effort into the ink versions, which were done from printed blue lines of Mendonça's pencils. I actually acquired the ink version of the central DPS first, then the pencil versions of that DPS and four surrounding pages, lacking page 16 which was no longer available. The pencil version of the DPS can be seen as an additional image under the listing for pages 14-15.