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REVOLUTION: THE NEW, REVISED SECRET FILES OF DONNA TROY

REVOLUTION      --------------    P   E   R   S   O   N   A   L      D   A   T   A    --------------      Real name:  Donna Darnell-Troy, formerly 'Donna Magna of House Pompeius' Occupation:  Adventurer, Lifestyle blogger, Photojournalist, Royal Princess of the  Amazons Marital Status:  Widowed Known Relatives:  Queen Hippolyta (adoptive mother), Sextus Pompeius Magnus (father), Lady Scribonia (mother), Princess Diana - Wonder Woman (sister), Zeus (godfather),  Queen Antiope (aunt),   Pompeia Magna (sister), Virbius Rex  (cousin), Mala (sister), Daniel, Lord of Dreams (nephew, alternate universe), Nubia (sister), Artemis (sister), Poseidon (uncle), Hunter Prince (future nephew) Base of Operations:  Gateway City, California (USA) and mobile Group Affiliation:  Amazons of Themyscira Height:  5'9" Weight:  135 lbs Eyes:  Blue Hair:  Black First Appearance:   The Brave And The Bold, Issue #60 (1965) Donna Troy/Wonder Girl story: Neal Adams, Teen Titans #22 (Aug. 1969, DC

LOOKING BACK AT THE ICONIC, IMAGINATIVE CHAZZARELLO YEARS, ON WONDER WOMAN'S 80th ANNO!

By Mel Dyer This cover really makes me miss the imaginative world-build that artist Cliff Chiang's and 100 Bullets writer Brian Azzarello's run brought to the  Wonder Woman  comic. It was a landmark run, and on the skyline of the comic's greatest creative periods, it stands out, ..with decidedly quirky distinction. Looking back on the comic's 80th anniversary, it was memorable. Can't say that about all of them! The Chazzarello run on Wonder Woman  - better known, as DC Comics' New 52  - changed the context of Wonder Woman's superheroic mission, in that it left her reasons for coming to the world of men, ..a mystery,  which Brian never truly solved for us. In its place, he and Cliff gave Diana a quirky, imaginative and iconic world, from which to launch her stories and, occasionally, explore her myth-inspired background. I even miss the nifty raptor companion,  Zephyrus the Wonder Eagle,  that the New 52 gave to teenage Wonder Woman, ..because Superman

CLEA AND PHEASANT DANGER: WHY SHE'S WONDER WOMAN'S NATURAL ENEMY!

By Edgar Miraculous Dyer For a chick, with a turkey on her head,  Queen Clea  is one of Wonder Woman's nastier, more implacable, World War II foes and  could easily be her  Kurgan  ..or the  Ming the Merciless,  she needs to define her, the way Luthor or Loki define their superheroic adversaries. Wonder Woman - Princess Diana of the Amazons -  whom I've always argued is more  Flas h Gor don 's narrative cousin, than  Superman 's,  needs  a Ming, and she's never had one around, long enough to matter. By comparison, her other foils -  Cheetah, Warmaster  and  Grail  - seem to do little more than challenge Diana's athleticism. Diana is the daughter of a liberated nation of classical Amazons, mythical freedom-fighters, for whom love and freedom are literally a religion, ..and her archenemy should reflect that. Conceivably, Diana, who fought Nazis in World War II, should have a tyrant in her rogues gallery, who rules a colorfully bizarre, faraway place, and whose vil