Wonder Woman, no. 81
Title
Wonder Woman, no. 81
Description
Wonder Woman was created by the psychologist William Moulton Marston (using the pen name Charles Moulton) and artist Harry G. Peter. Though Marston died in 1947, “Charles Moulton” is still credited as the author of this issue’s Wonder Woman stories, and Peter draws them. As Jill Lepore has documented, Marston created Wonder Woman, with the help of his two domestic partners, to be an explicitly feminist hero. Marston claimed in a 1942 interview that “Wonder Woman . . . is a New Woman. ‘The one outstanding benefit to humanity from the first World War was the great increase in the strength of women—physical, economic, mental,’ he says. ‘Women definitely emerged from a false, haremlike protection and began taking over men’s work. Grealy to their own surprise they discovered that they were potentially as strong as men—in some ways stronger’” (232-233). (Reference: Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman. New York: Vintage, 2015.)
Publisher
Date
Contributor
Ellsworth, Whitney, 1908-1980 (Editor)
Kanigher, Robert (Editor)
Novick, Irv (Penciler & Inker)
Rights
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Language
English
Type
Still image
Identifier
wonderwoman_081_cover.jpg
Collection
Citation
“Wonder Woman, no. 81,” Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT Libraries, accessed November 5, 2024, https://cary-exhibits.rit.edu/items/show/226.