Comic Title: Wonder Woman #18
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1988
On Sale Date: March 15, 1988 Shipping Date March 15, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 15, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Newsstand Date April 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Copyright Date March 15, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 48
Editor: Karen Berger

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Notes:
Contains Bonus Book #4

Title: "Awakenings"
Pages: 14

Writer: Dan Littleford
Penciller: Palmer Worley
Inker: Brian Thomas
Letterer: Dan McKinnon
Colorist: Daniel Vozzo

Reprinted In:
Wonder Woman by George Perez Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Amazons (see comment below; last appearance in Wonder Woman #1; next appearance in Wonder Woman #1)
• Mesopee (no further appearances)
• Verona (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Star(s)

• Larabeau (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Kaleece (a monarch; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Hermitus ( soldier in the army of Heracles; no further appearances)
• Various soldiers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is presented as Bonus Book #4 and features "Legend of the Amazons".

This story tells the story of one of the Amazons, Mesopee, including the story of her previous life as Larabeau. The Amazons appear concurrently in scenes in Wonder Woman #1 which detail the birth of the Amazons and their battle with the army of Heracles in which they broke free from their oppressors.

Synopsis:
In 4500 B.C., a slave name Larabeau awakens from the bed she shares with her monarch and master Kaleece. She has a waking dream of riding on horseback across green fields into a storm with another woman named Verona. Larabeau slips back and forth between the dream and her reality. When the mad king awakens, he discovers that his hand is missing, having been cut off in battle years earlier. He blames Larabeau for its loss and beats her.

In her dream state, Larabeau is Mesopee, an Amazon who has been shackled by the army of Heracles. She and her sister break free and she slays one of her former captors. Her sister Verona dies to save her. Back in Larabeau's reality, she takes up a sword and slays Kaleece. Guards enter and kill her.

The soul that is Larabeau is reborn in 1200 B.C. as Mesopee. Rising from the waters, given life by the Olympians, Mesopee becomes one of the Amazons.