War of the Gods is a crossover and 4-part miniseries storyline published in 1991 by DC Comics. Primarily centered on the character Wonder Woman to celebrate that character's 50th anniversary, it was written by that title's then writer George Pérez. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ... Captain Marvel is a comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New Teen Titans #1. ... New Teen Titans #1. ... Romeo Tanghal is a comics artist who has worked with the some of the best in the industry. ... Pablo Marcus (born March 31, 1937, Laran, Chincha Alta, Peru) is a comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known as one of his countrys leading cartoonists and for his work on such popular American comics characters as Batman and Conan the Barbarian, particularly during the 1970s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Cover to DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #1. ... Cover to Star Trek (vol. ... Richard Joseph Dick Giordano (July 20, 1932 - ) is a United States comic book artist and editor. ... New Teen Titans #1. ... A fictional crossover occurs when otherwise separated fictional characters, stories, settings, universes, or media meet and interact with each other. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Wonder Woman is a fictional DC Comics superheroine co-created by William Moulton Marston and wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston. ... New Teen Titans #1. ...

Production history

Writer George Pérez had some trouble writing the story since the beginning of its inception, mostly due to editorial problems. 1 Pérez felt that DC Comics wasn't doing enough to celebrate Wonder Woman's milestone anniversary. To make matters worse, DC Comics didn't place the comic for newsstand distribution which meant that the only place the comic book could be bought was at retail stores that specifically specialized in comic books. George Pérez had also built-up the story plot to marry the characters Steve Trevor and Etta Candy in the final issue. When he discovered that DC editors had decided to not only pass the Wonder Woman title's writing to William Messner-Loebs but also have him write the final wedding scene, George Pérez quit the title and separated himself from the DC Comics company for several years. Steve Trevor is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics, as a member of Wonder Womans supporting cast. ... Etta Candy This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... William Messner-Loebs (known informally as Bill Loebs) is a Michigan comic book writer and artist. ...

Plot

Worldwide ancient gods suddenly began trying to destroy the Earth and each other. While the gods of the Roman and Greek gods waged war against each other, gods from the Egyptian, African, Norse, Babylonian and Thanagarian pantheons began attacking heroes as they tried to re-create the world in their own images. The cause of this sudden clash of gods was the sorceress Circe whose goal was the destruction of the Earth goddess Gaea. Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... the original black people. Some would call them niggers, which has over the years come to be an offensive, racist term for blacks, but originally it just meant ignorant person and since black slaves were considered ignorant, they were called this. ... Divided between the Æsir and the Vanir, and sometimes including the jötnar (giants), the dividing line between these groups is less than clear. ... Thanagar is a fictional planet in the DC Comics universe. ... Circe is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, centered in the Wonder Woman title. ... Gaia (pronounced // or //) (land or earth, from the Greek ; variant spelling Gaea—see also Ge from ) is a Greek goddess personifying the Earth. ...

Realizing that her enemy, Wonder Woman, might interfere with her plans, Circe arranged for her kidnapping and transport to New Olympus, where she must defend her Greek patrons against the Roman gods' champion, Captain Marvel. Mytikas Summit, Mt Olympus Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Ólympos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,919 (according to new measurements [1]) meters high and one of the highest, in real absolute altitude from base to top, of Europe since its... Captain Marvel is a comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics. ...

While the heroes deal with the warring deities, Black Adam, Captain Marvel's archenemy, recruits the Suicide Squad to help him launch an attack on Circe's fortress. She escapes to Themyscira, where she kills Wonder Woman. While this happens Olympus appears next to Earth in its own dimension, threatening to destroy all of existence. The world's heroes try to convince the gods to lay down their arms and join them in facing the true enemy manipulating them. With Captain Marvel freed from his Roman masters' influence and Wonder Woman brought back to life, Gaea regains her strength, and the War of the Gods is finished but at the price of the life of the Olympian gods Hermes and Eris, and seemingly Circe herself. Black Adam is a fictional comic book character, appearing in DC Comics, whose morally ambiguous nature has his character fall between the lines of heroism and villainy; as a result, he has associated himself with both superheroes and supervillains in the past. ... Suicide Squad is a name for a variety of organizations created for and owned by DC Comics. ... Themyscirian Amazons Art by Phil Jimenez Themyscira is a fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe. ... Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus, by Praxiteles Hermes (Greek IPA ), in Greek mythology, is the god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators, literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures and invention and commerce in general, of liars, and of... Eris (ca. ...

Crossover titles

• Animal Man #40
• Batman #470
• Captain Atom #56, 57
• Demon #17
• Doctor Fate #32, 33
• Flash #55
• Hawk and Dove #28
• Hawkworld #15, 16
• Justice League of America #55
• Justice League Europe #31
• L.E.G.I.O.N. '91 #31
• New Titans #81
• Starman #38
• Suicide Squad #58
• Superman: The Man of Steel #3
• Wonder Woman #58, 59, 60, 61

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External links

• The Unofficial Comics Crossover Index: War of the Gods
• DCU Guide: Unofficial War of the Gods Chronology