CBR's 50 Greatest Wonder Woman Stories (as voted by you!)

[Nyssane]

CBR has started the 50 Greatest Wonder Woman Stories list today, as voted by the fans!

What did you vote for?

Did your votes make it to the list?

What are your thoughts on the stories on the list?

[Frank]

I voted for these:

1. JLA: A League of One

2. "The Last True Hero": WW vol 2, #75

3. Eyes of the Gorgon (Greg Rucka)

4. "Return to Paradise Island/The Last Battle": WW vol 1, #183-184

5. War (Brian Azzarello)

6. Challenge of the Gods (George Perez - his second storyline)

7. The Circle (Gail Simone)

8. "The Mystery of the Atom World": WW vol 1, #21

9. "Her Mother's Daughter": WW vol 2, #172

10. "Paradise Burning": WW vol 1, #318

I'm a little surprised to see "Rise of the Olympian" on the list - I haven't read it in a long time, but I tend to think of anything related to Simone's Achilles as ghastly - but I'm sure some of mine are head-scratching to others.

[SonOfBaldwin]

My votes were:

1. "Stoned" (WONDER WOMAN #206-210, by Greg Rucka and Drew Johnson)

2. "Year One (Rebirth)" (WONDER WOMAN #2, #4, #6, #8, #10, #12, #14 by Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, and Bilquis Evely)

3. "Her Daughter's Mother" (WONDER WOMAN #172 by Phil Jimenez)

4. "Sacrifice" (WONDER WOMAN #219 by Greg Rucka, Tom Derenick, Georges Jeanty, Karl Kerschl, David Lopez, Rags Morales)

5. Space Odyssey Arc (WONDER WOMAN #66-71 by William Messner Loebs and Paris Cullins)

6. "She's a Wonder" (WONDER WOMAN #170 by Phil Jimenez and Joe Kelly)

7. Circe Arc (WONDER WOMAN #17-19 by George Perez)

8. JLA: League of One by Christopher Moeller

9. "The Circle" (WONDER WOMAN #14-17 by Gail Simone and Terry Dodson)

10. "The Lies" (WONDER WOMAN #1, #3, #5, #7, #9, #11 by Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp)

[Dr. Poison]

Mine:


.) The Witch & The Warrior by Phil Jimenez

2.) Who Is Wonder Woman? by Alan Heinberg

3.) Land of the Lost by Phil Jimenez

4.) The Lies by Greg Rucka

5.) Year One by Greg Rucka

6.) Blood of the Cheetah by George Perez

7.) The Legend of Wonder Woman by Rene De Liz

8.) Deja Vu by John Byrne

9.) The Circle by Gail Simone

10.) Judgement In Infinity by Paul Levitz & Roy Thomas

[The I.A.D.C.]

My #2 choice made today's list...even if it was #50!

10. "Of Gods and Men" (WW #329, last Pre-Crisis/Bronze Age issue)

9. "Who is Wonder Woman?" (Alan Heinberg, WW vol 3 #1-4, Annual #1)

8. "The Legend of Wonder Woman" (1986 mini series by Kurt Busiek and Trina Robbins)

7. "The 12 Labors" (WW vol 1 #212-222)

6. "The Cosmic Quest For The Discs of Mars" (aka "1978 Wonder Woman Spectacular")

5. "Gods of Gotham" (Phil Jimenez, WW vol 2 #164-167)

4. "Swan Song" (1st Silver Swan) (WW vol 1 #288-290)

3. "Challenge of the Gods" (2nd Perez arc) (WW vol 2 #10-14)

2. "Superman vs Wonder Woman" (1978 DC Treasury comic)

1. "Stoned" (Greg Rucka) (WW vol 2 #206-210)

[SeanT]

When did they have the voting for this? I totally missed it.

[WonderScott]

I missed the voting too!

[SeanT]

This is just off the top of my head, but my list would be something like:

The Orana story from WW vol 1 #250-251 (Jack C Harris)

Last True Hero by Messner-Loebs (vol 2 #75)

WW vol 1 #3 (The Baroness story)

Stoned by Rucka

League of One

Blood by Azzarello

WW vol 1 # 34 (Crazy story called "The Rhyming Riddle)

WW vol 1 #300

ww vol 2 #83 (where Diana reforms Donna Milton)

Sensation #26 ("The Masquerader")

[Bukdiah]

I got a lot of crap to read it seems. I got 75 Years of WW and feel the collection of stories isn't all that great...

[AndyMangels]

I'm waiting to see if WONDER WOMAN '77 MEETS THE BIONIC WOMAN makes the list anywhere.

Many diehard fans — and reviewers — have been praising it as being one of the best Wonder Woman stories in a long, long time...

[SonOfBaldwin]

All of the entires will be listed here: http://www.cbr.com/tag/50-greatest-w...woman-stories/

[Pinsir]

I wonder if any of Kanigher's work will be listed. His work is better than most Post-Crisis material.

[brettc1]

I wonder if any of Kanigher's work will be listed. His work is better than most Post-Crisis material.

Isn't Kanigher the one who made Steve a complete ass-hat that Diana still followed around like a love-struck puppy?

[Pinsir]

Isn't Kanigher the one who made Steve a complete ass-hat that Diana still followed around like a love-struck puppy?

Any story he wrote with Steve Trevor is generally intolerable, however he worked on Wonder Woman for 21+ years so even if he only produced one good story a year, his catalogue of good work is superior to most modern authors. His Wondergirl stories are particularly delightful.

[Jim Kelly]

Bob Kanigher was writing Wonder Woman right after Marston's death, so a lot of those earlier stories are not very different from Marston's work. Some Kanigher stories were even selected for Gloiria Steinem's Ms. collection of WONDER WOMAN (1972) as examples of excellence.

Loading the CBR pages is always a chore for my devices and I run short of patience before I can see all the stories selected.

I hope at least one of the Mike Sekowsky Diana Prince stories was selected. The most likely candidate being "THEM" WONDER WOMAN No. 185 (November-December '69)--it's a story that attracts a lot of attention, so maybe it has a chance of breaking through all the negative opiinion regarding the powered down Wonder Woman. Sekowsky did some brillaint stories and this one is so strange that it's hard to ignore--plus the pairing of Sekowsky and Dick Giordano on the art is really good.