What I've learned about Wonder Woman so far...
1) William Moulton Marston, the psychologist who created Wonder Woman in 1941, was also the inventor of the lie detector.
2) Marston had four children... from two different women. One of the lucky gals was his wife, who gave birth to a son and a daughter. The second was his personal assistant during the development of his lie detector, who gave birth to two more boys. Amazingly, the two women bonded and maintained a plutonic relationship in the family the remainder of their lives.
3) Marston was a serious feminist idealist, but his comics always, without fail, depicted scenes of female bondage. Wonder Woman was often represented in a full page panel bound in chains or ropes. If a man bound Wondie's bracelets together she would lose her super powers. Strange feminism, if you ask me. The bondage representation proved to be a sticking point between Marston and his editor/publisher M.C. Gaines and several female psychologists. However, Wondie's creator never wavered from this odd fixation, insisting instead that the bondage represented an opportunity to avoid violence.
4) Wonder Woman was syndicated in newspapers, also written by Marston, but failed after just one year. Superman and Batman proved to be too popular for the generally male dominated audience that read the daily paper.
5) Harry Peter (no joke here please, show some respect) was Wonder Woman's first artist. His work looked like shit to me originally, which shows my lack of imagination. He was indeed a gifted artist and I am jealous of him. Die! Die! He's dead anyway. He died in 1958. Ha-ha!
6) Wonder Woman still gives me boners.
1) William Moulton Marston, the psychologist who created Wonder Woman in 1941, was also the inventor of the lie detector.
2) Marston had four children... from two different women. One of the lucky gals was his wife, who gave birth to a son and a daughter. The second was his personal assistant during the development of his lie detector, who gave birth to two more boys. Amazingly, the two women bonded and maintained a plutonic relationship in the family the remainder of their lives.
3) Marston was a serious feminist idealist, but his comics always, without fail, depicted scenes of female bondage. Wonder Woman was often represented in a full page panel bound in chains or ropes. If a man bound Wondie's bracelets together she would lose her super powers. Strange feminism, if you ask me. The bondage representation proved to be a sticking point between Marston and his editor/publisher M.C. Gaines and several female psychologists. However, Wondie's creator never wavered from this odd fixation, insisting instead that the bondage represented an opportunity to avoid violence.
4) Wonder Woman was syndicated in newspapers, also written by Marston, but failed after just one year. Superman and Batman proved to be too popular for the generally male dominated audience that read the daily paper.
5) Harry Peter (no joke here please, show some respect) was Wonder Woman's first artist. His work looked like shit to me originally, which shows my lack of imagination. He was indeed a gifted artist and I am jealous of him. Die! Die! He's dead anyway. He died in 1958. Ha-ha!
6) Wonder Woman still gives me boners.