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[Jeremy Osner]

JEANNIE BERNIER wrote:

> ObPynch - was Wonder Woman already a Marvel comic during WWII?  Or is this
> an anachronism?  Anyone know the history of the amazon babe?

from http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman/tvguide.html:

For the uninitiated, the Wonder Woman cartoon character was concieved in
1942(WRONG:
1941) by Charles Moulton, who decided that, while little boys has Superman and
Batman and
Captain Marvel fighting the world's evildoers in the comic strips, the little
girls had no
funny-paper heroine to root for. Moulton restored the balance - and vastly
enriched himself(His
family saw the money, he died too early to see much of it) - by coming up with
Diana, an
immortal Amazon from uncharted Paradise Island, to which she and her sister
Amazons had fled
circa 200 B.C. to escape male domination by the ancient Greeks and Romans.