A serial comic story in issues 20-23 of the DC Comics Wonder Woman series. Each issue is 32 interior pp. (unpaginated); color. "Ends of the Earth" is the only major content in these issues. The 4 installments are titled as follows:

• Chapter 1, "An Unreasoning Frost," issue 20 (July 2008)
• Chapter 2, "The Edge of Insanity," issue 21 (Aug. 2008)
• Chapter 3, "A Cooperation of Killers," issue 22 (Sept. 2008)
• Chapter 4, "Ends of the Earth Finale," issue 23 (Oct. 2008)

The story begins in medias res, with Wonder Woman trekking through a northern landscape to a tavern (not a lord's hall, although it is referred to as the "mead hall") where she expects to meet, and does meet, Beowulf, who has come there seeking Grendel. After brief antagonism they become allies and fight the denizens of the tavern, who are Grendel-worshippers. As it turns out, Wonder Woman and Beowulf are two of three heroes (the third is Claw) who have been summoned by a mysterious figure called the Stalker to kill the devil—Satan, known in this plane as D'Grth or Dgrth (it is spelled both ways), whose servant Grendel is—as prescribed by an oracle's prophecy. They succeed, but Grendel gets away; at the end of the story he is shown lurking outside Diana Prince's apartment in Washington, DC: "Sssuch a pretty cave ssshe hidessss in!" (issue 23, p. [31]).

The story gestures to the 1975-76 DC Comics series Beowulf: Dragon Slayer in having Beowulf still be in the process of seeking Grendel, and in portraying Grendel as a lackey of Satan, who is the master adversary (in the earlier series, Grendel's mother is trying to usurp the throne of hell on behalf of her son, and Beowulf is misdirected into several side-adventures so that he never reaches his intended confrontation with Grendel). One can read the battle with D'Grth as a conclusion to Beowulf's adventure begun in the earlier series, except that in issue 6 of Beowulf: Dragon Slayer, Satan was apparently killed by Grendel. The artists' renderings of both Beowulf and Grendel differ significantly from those in the earlier series.

A later DC Comics storyline featuring Beowulf—begun in the serial Sword of Sorcery (2012-13) and continued in one issue of DC Universe Presents (2013)—appears irreconcilable to the Wonder Woman "Ends of the Earth" storyline. However, given that all are from DC Comics, some way of connecting the stories within the DC universe may have been intended. See separate records.

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