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WONDER WOMAN VOL. 2 #172
Cover Date: September 2001
Cover Price: $2.25
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Cover Credits:
Art: Adam Hughes (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Phil Jimenez |
| Pencils | Phil Jimenez |
| Inks | Andy Lanning |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Patricia Mulvihill |
| Color separations | Heroic Age |
| Editing | Tom Palmer, Jr., Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
- Wonder Woman (last in JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; appears in flashback in Superboy Vol. 3 #91 and 'now' in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; next in Superman Vol. 2 #173)
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (appearance on page 5 same as JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; also between pages of Action Comics #781)
- Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner; last in flashback in Superboy Vol. 3 #91; appears in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; next in Superman Vol. 2 #173)
Supporting Character(s):
- Hippolyta (last in JLA: Our Worlds at War #1; appears in Action Comics #781 between pages of this issue; also in flashback in between issue #169 and #170; dies)
- Wonder Girl II (in between Young Justice #35 and #36)
- Artemis (in flashback following issue #169 and preceding Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1)
- Philippus (in flashback following issue #169 and preceding Wonder Woman: Our Worlds at War #1)
Villain(s):
Guest Appearance(s):
- Cissie King-Jones (in between Young Justice #35 and #36)
- Lois Lane (in between pages of Action Comics #781)
Other Character(s):
- Blackhawks
- Julia (last in issue #71)
- Barriites
- Citadellians
- Dominators
- Dryads
- Durlans
- Gil'Dishpan
- Hykraians
- Jaquaans
- Inhabitants of J586
- Khunds
- Psions
- Spurtans
- Talokians
- Thanagarians
- Warlords of Okaara
- Xudarians
Synopsis: - Having heard that her daughter Diana is injured, Hippolyta anxiously searches for her on the Paradocs space arc vessel. Using herbs supplied by the Amazon healer Epione, Hippolyta is able to make progress. The vessel then comes under attack from two Imperiex probes - Green Lantern (also injured) seals the hull breaches, and Diana goes missing, wanting to save the vessel. Hippolyta will not let her, and goes outside herself to fight the probes. One of them is ripped in half by the unbreakable lasso which she has borrowed from her daughter, but they are able to launch a 'hollower' before the explosion, which heads straight for Athens. While Diana gives Green Lantern the support he needs to mend the hull breaches, Hippolyta battles to stop the hollower from destroying Athens.
- As Hippolyta's skin begins to blister and burn from the effort, Diana comes to try and help her, or preferably take her place, but the other probe interferes. Desperate to prove that she is worthy of the name Wonder Woman, Hippolyta grapples with the probe, eventually causing it and the hollower to explode. From far away, Superman sees the explosion and flies in. Here he finds Diana, unsteady on her feet, but protected from the worst by the bracelets of Aegis she has always worn. Hippolyta, however, has fared much worse, her skin a mass of burns. As she breathes her last, Diana desperately tries to convey to her that she saved Athens and that she is after all, worthy of the name Wonder Woman. However, she fears that the last thing Hippolyta will have remembered before her death is Diana telling her to leave the struggle against the hollower, saying 'you're not Wonder Woman'...