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Issue Details

Issue #252
Published February 1979
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Ross Andru

Cover Details - "The Empress of the Silver Snake!"

Characters Wonder Woman; Empress of the Silver Snake [Astarte]
Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Dick Giordano

17 page Wonder Woman story "The Empress of the Silver Snake!"

Characters Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Conrad Starfield; General Robert Novack; Mike Bailey (Intro); Stacy Macklin (Intro, later Lady Lunar); Queen Hippolyta; Malania (Amazon astronomer); The Empress of the Silver Snake [Astarte]
Synopsis Diana Prince begins her training at NASA, just as an evil alien entity attacks all liftoffs from Earth, searching for her intended prey-- Wonder Woman.
Genre superhero
Script Jack C. Harris
Pencils Jose Delbo
Inks Joe Giella
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Milt Snapinn
Notes -It is noted that a candidate for astronaut needs to have clocked over 1000 hours flight time, and have a BA in Engineering, Physical Science or Mathematics, suggesting Diana Prince may have stretched the truth on her application. -Conrad Starfield's hair starts out brown, and becomes black later in the issue. -Wonder Woman notes that her robot plane is of "a magical nature." -Stacy Macklin later becomes Lady Lunar in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #266.

1 page Wonder Words letters page

Synopsis Letters from John Doherty; M.L. Fennessy; Penny Jacobson
Script Jack C. Harris
Letters typeset