Title:
Wonder Woman 183🔑
Synopsis:
🔑Synopsis for ”Return to Paradise Island” First Eris and first time Mars called Ares.
The Amazon emissary locates Diana and I-Ching, who has followed her, and brings them both across dimensional barriers to the land where Paradise Island now exists. The land is ravaged by war, and Queen Hippolyte lies comatose and tormented. An Amazon reveals that Ares, his sister Eris, and his sons Diemos and Phobus came to Hippolyte and demanded the secret of dimensional travel so that they could travel to Earth and plunge it into bloody war. Hippolyte refused, and battle ensued, in which the Amazons were defeated. But Hippolyte still withheld the secret, whereupon Eris cursed her with a nightmare sleep that would only end when her secret was wrested from her. Now Mars appears to Diana and tells her that she can end her mother’s suffering by asking her to reveal the secret. But Hippolyte, even in sleep, grasps Diana’s hand, signifying her answer is still ”No”. When Mars and his family attempt to kidnap Hippolyte, the Amazons surround their queen and prevent it. Mars withdraws, promising to return with troops. Diana rallies the Amazons to fight at her side against their foe, which outnumbers them five to one. Diana later dons battle armor and leads the Amazon army against Deimos’s and Phobus’s Beast Men, during which battle the enemy snatches Hippolyta. The Amazons recover their queen in a raid led by Diana, and they withdraw to a mountain pass where they intend to make their last stand against Mars’s troops.
Appearing in ”Return to Paradise Island”
Featured Characters:
Diana Prince
Supporting Characters:
Amazons
Drusilla
Queen Hippolyta
I-Ching
Antagonists:
Ares
Deimos (First appearance)
Eris (First appearance)
Phobos (First appearance)
Beast Men
Centaurs
Reginald Hyde-Whyte
Locations:
Dimension of Olympus
Paradise Island
Temple of Athena
The Medean Pass
Unnamed mountain range
United Kingdom
London
Notes
This issue is reprinted partially in Wonder Woman #198 (parts of pages 2-4, 9-19, 21-25) and fully in Diana Prince: Wonder Woman Vol. 1.
First time Ares is referred to by his Greek name rather than his Roman name Mars. He is revealed here for the first time to be Wonder Woman’s grandfather.
This issue first introduces the idea that gods need the worship of mortals to maintain their power, hence why Ares wishes to conquer Earth.
The world to which Paradise Island has been teleported, a ”plane where Olympus still exists” inhabited by ”barbarians” and ”beast men” who fight for Ares, is presumably Skyland in the Sphere of the Gods or a dimension close to it
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The Amazon emissary locates Diana and I-Ching, who has followed her, and brings them both across dimensional barriers to the land where Paradise Island now exists. The land is ravaged by war, and Queen Hippolyte lies comatose and tormented. An Amazon reveals that Ares, his sister Eris, and his sons Diemos and Phobus came to Hippolyte and demanded the secret of dimensional travel so that they could travel to Earth and plunge it into bloody war. Hippolyte refused, and battle ensued, in which the Amazons were defeated. But Hippolyte still withheld the secret, whereupon Eris cursed her with a nightmare sleep that would only end when her secret was wrested from her. Now Mars appears to Diana and tells her that she can end her mother’s suffering by asking her to reveal the secret. But Hippolyte, even in sleep, grasps Diana’s hand, signifying her answer is still ”No”. When Mars and his family attempt to kidnap Hippolyte, the Amazons surround their queen and prevent it. Mars withdraws, promising to return with troops. Diana rallies the Amazons to fight at her side against their foe, which outnumbers them five to one. Diana later dons battle armor and leads the Amazon army against Deimos’s and Phobus’s Beast Men, during which battle the enemy snatches Hippolyta. The Amazons recover their queen in a raid led by Diana, and they withdraw to a mountain pass where they intend to make their last stand against Mars’s troops.
Appearing in ”Return to Paradise Island”
Featured Characters:
Diana Prince
Supporting Characters:
Amazons
Drusilla
Queen Hippolyta
I-Ching
Antagonists:
Ares
Deimos (First appearance)
Eris (First appearance)
Phobos (First appearance)
Beast Men
Centaurs
Reginald Hyde-Whyte
Locations:
Dimension of Olympus
Paradise Island
Temple of Athena
The Medean Pass
Unnamed mountain range
United Kingdom
London
Notes
This issue is reprinted partially in Wonder Woman #198 (parts of pages 2-4, 9-19, 21-25) and fully in Diana Prince: Wonder Woman Vol. 1.
First time Ares is referred to by his Greek name rather than his Roman name Mars. He is revealed here for the first time to be Wonder Woman’s grandfather.
This issue first introduces the idea that gods need the worship of mortals to maintain their power, hence why Ares wishes to conquer Earth.
The world to which Paradise Island has been teleported, a ”plane where Olympus still exists” inhabited by ”barbarians” and ”beast men” who fight for Ares, is presumably Skyland in the Sphere of the Gods or a dimension close to it
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Cover Date:
8/1/69
Publisher:
DC Comics
Issue Number:
183
Volume:
1
Year:
1969
Variant Number:
1
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Cover Price:
$0.15
Era:
Silver Age
Genre:
Superhero
Fantasy
Adventure
Action
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Language:
English
Type of Comic:
Magazine
Characters:
Ares
Queen Hippolyta
Drusilla
Centaurs
I-Ching
Antagonist
Wonder Woman (Diana of Paradise Is. Earth-One) Creators William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter 1st App. Wonder Woman #98 (1958) Death Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (1986)
Deimos (1st App.)
Eris (1st App.)
Phobos (1st App.)
Beast Men
Reginald Hyde-Whyte
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Date Added:
2018-07-02 21:57:28
Series:
Wonder Woman (vol. 1)
Story Arc:
Return To Paradise Island
Date Added:
2018-07-02 21:57:28
Created By:
Charles Moulton
Wonder Woman (Diana of Paradise Is. Earth-One) Creators William Moulton Marston · Harry G. Peter 1st App. Wonder Woman #98 (1958) Death Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (1986) https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Diana_of_Paradise_Island_(Earth-One)
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Writer:
Mike Sekowsky
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Penciller:
Mike Sekowsky
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Inker:
Dick Giordano
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Cover Artist:
Mike Sekowsky
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