GRGR(31) Some Notes and Questions

[David Morris]

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

http://lacosa.sion.com/ww/index2.htm

     Along with Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman it's one of the big three 
longest running comics. By the other side it's the only female character 
being published continously since its creation more half a century ago. 
Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by Charles Moulton, pen name of 
psychologist William Moulton Marston. But paradoxically, the first contact 
that Marston had with the comix was through criticism. Marston was a 
professor at Columbia University and the author of such essays like 
"Integrative Psychology: A Study of Unit response", "The Art of Marriage", 
"Obey That Impulse", "Take Your Profits From Defeats" and above them all 
"The Lie Detector Test". In fact, Marston was responsible for the creation 
of the polygraph, better known as the lie detector. With a great knowledge 
of psychodynamics and sexual behaviors, Marston made out of Wonder Woman one 
of the biggest pop culture symbols of feminism, liberation, and such topics 
as the women domination by man and, bondage and discipline.

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