Comic Title: Wonder Woman:Gods and Mortals TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2004
On Sale Date: February 18, 2004 Direct Market Date February 18, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #12 (#180)

Direct Market Date February 18, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 192
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "A Fire in the Sky"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Wonder Woman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Greg Potter
Plotter/Penciller: George Perez
Inker: Bruce D. Patterson
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted From:
Wonder Woman #2 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)

Guest Star(s)

• Olympian Gods (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
• Aphrodite (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
• Artemis (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)
• Athena (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Steve Trevor (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman #12; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• Hippolyte (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #5)
• Amazons (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #5)
• Menalippe (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #5)
• Philippus (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #6)
• Etta Candy (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• General John Hillary (next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• Matthew Michaelis (a colonel in the USAF; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)

Villain(s)

• Ares (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• Deimos (son of Ares; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• Phobos (son of Ares; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• General Gerard Kohler and Captain Slade (agents of Ares; die in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Hermes (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #3)
• Hephaestus (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Wonder Woman #45; next appearance in Wonder Woman #7)
• Hestia (last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #7)

Other Character(s)

• Harmonia (daughter of Ares and Aphrodite; next appearance in Wonder Woman #13)
• Themis (deity of the seas; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Wonder Woman #1 and continues in Wonder Woman #3.

Synopsis:
Colonel Steve Trevor, an army whistleblower, has been assigned to fly a mission for General Kohler, a corrupt leader that Steve has accused of misconduct. Trevor, along with his co-pilot Captain Slade, take their plane into the area that leads to Paradise Island. Once they penetrate Athena's protective cloud barrier, Slade reveals himself as an agent of Ares and attempts to kill Steve.

Meanwhile, Diana has won the Amazon contest and receives a gift from the gods, a magic lasso of truth. Hermes then guides her to Aeropagus where she is given an amulet by Harmonia that will guide her to Ares and possibly allow him to be defeated. Wonder Woman then returns to Paradise Island in time to stop Steve's plane from dropping a nuke on the island.

Wonder Woman rescues Steve from the ocean and brings him to the island for medical attention. Athena then announces that the time has come for Diana to enter the Man's World. Guided by Hermes, Diana carries Steve back home where his friends Etta Candy, General Hilary, and Colonel Michaelis have discovered Kohler's dead body.