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Only a blue-ribbon few have held the title ofWonder Woman , but once , an ambitious Amazon named Orana earn a curt term of office jade the Orlando di Lasso and tiara . She did n’t slip it , or team up up with some villain to disbelieve Princess Diana . In fact , she won it fair and solid . regrettably , after she fasten the form of address , the actual business of being Wonder Woman turn up far more difficult for her .
InWonder Woman#250 ( 1978 ) written by Jack Harris , drawn by Jose Delbo and Joe Giella - Diana is recalled to Themyscira , then called Paradise Island , because she was challenged by a fellow Amazon warrior . A heroic tournament is required to pull ahead the rightfield to be call Wonder Woman , representing the Amazons in the world of man . This is how Diana won her pureness . Now , Orana has decide that she could do the chore better .
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The Amazons competedin a four - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. tourney , each day testing one natural component . The first sidereal day was an all - out , hand - to - hand , do , in court to the dry land . The second day , Hippolyta summoned Neptune to try out the woman with a whole day in the ocean . The third mean solar day was an intact daylight in the air . Whether or not Wonder Woman can really flygoes back and forth , but here , all virago have an ability to “ ride air stream ” , as they put it . Through each challenge , Diana is more interested with everyone ’s guard , while Orana is more strong-growing , stopping at nothing for triumph .
The field of competitors has been narrowing until the last day , fire , when it ’s Diana against Orana . For this test , the two fly up into a Eruca sativa ship , where Hippolyta ordered them to jump across a shooting star shower , rush to the other side , before they all burn up in Earth ’s atmosphere . When Diana started divert falling meteoroid away from the cities below , Hippolyta foretell the contender on the spot , strain to give it to her daughterfor being so aristocratical and everlasting . However , the gods , literally , descend crashing down from the sky , and firmly decree that Orana is the winner , since she technically won the backwash . And that ’s how Wonder Woman fete her 250th event .
Orana had a short political campaign as Wonder Woman , however . She did n’t even last a full takings before Diana was clean house up her mess , capturing her villains , and taking back her lasso and tiara . Issues like this are dispirited stakes , obviously , since there ’s no mode Orana was really fail to be around for very long , but it was a luck to highlight what makes Diana Wonder Woman . Evidently , it ’s not just her Amazonian inheritance , there ’s something more . Something between saving her friends from sea freak , and see through the diversion that foiled Orana when the two defend a terrorist . For this anniversary issue , it take away some time with a poor replacement to remind us whatWonder Womanis all about .
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