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WOMAN
She has a golden lasso - The Lasso
of Truth, indestructible bracelets
she can deflect bullets with and has
superhuman powers which were
gifts from the Greek Gods. In 1940,
William Mouton Marston, a psychol-
ogist who had invented the poly-
graph, was talking to a family mag-
azine about the potential of comic
books and that article got the eye
of publisher Max Gains, a comic
publisher who then hired Marston to
be a consultant who went on to cre-
ate Wonder Woman when his wife
suggested the new super hero he
create be a woman.
Working with artist Harry G. Peter.
Marston and his wife Elizabeth’s co-
habitant, Olive Byrne, is credited as
being Marston’s inspiration for the
character’s appearance. Wonder
Woman was also Marston’s inter-
pretation of the ideal love leader...
the type of woman who’d be ideal
running society.
Many comic fans will know there
are “ages” of comics. Staring with
the Golden Age which was around
the 1930s to 1950... a time when
many comics where first published
and made popular.
Wonder Woman was around from
the beginning of the Golden Age
and was fighting Nazis and joined
the Justice Society of America. In
the Silver Age, the Wonder Woman
character was given a make over
with new Hellenic roots and begins
using the alias Diana Prince who
opens a boutique of mod fashion
and has a Chinese mentor who
teaches her martial arts and weap-
ons fighting. Think Emma Peel from
the Avengers but with kick-ass
skills.
In the Bronze Age Wonder Woman
returns to her super hero roots in
the Justice League and the 40s but
this was around the time a TV Show
began featuring Lynda Carter as
Wonder Woman.
The Modern Age sees a rewrite of
the character’s origi