I would not sell my collection, for if I did I would cry (Part 88)....

 Today In The History Of Polt's Comic Book Collection

Today, we go back to April of 1998 and Wonder Woman, Volume 2, #132. 

At this point, John Byrne had taken over the writing and art of Wonder Woman.  In the Crisis, 13 years previous, there were many changes done to DC continuity.  One was the merging of 5 different Earths, including Earth-1 & Earth-2.  Earth-2 was where all of DC's WWII stories took place.  They all took place during WWII in the one Earth that remained.  HOWEVER, a few heroes, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, were all wiped out of their WWII continuity and replaced by...well, frankly, poor substitutes.  With no Wonder Woman in the 1940s, her place was taken by Miss America...a fine heroine in her own right, but no Wonder Woman.

When Byrne took over Wonder Woman, he came up with a solution.  Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyta, had recently taken Wonder Woman's place in the JLA when Wonder Woman died (don't ask). So what Byrne did was have Hippolyta get sent back through time to the WWII era, and SHE became Wonder Woman, and took over all the original Wonder Woman's stories in the Golden Age, including her membership in the JSA.

If you're still with me, if I haven't lost you yet, I gotta say, it's a pretty ingenious fix, I thought.  At any rate, for several issues, roughly 6 of them, Byrne did nothing but stories of Hippolyta as Wonder Woman in WWII.  And this issue was in the that run.

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