![]() ![]() While the Amazons were originally created to protect "man's world," they ultimately abandoned it. Although Diana is 5,000 years old, herįirst exposure to non-Amazon society will have only come within the lastġ00 years, so she is still learning to understand the world around her. In older stories, she had a wide-range of devicesīased on Amazon technology. She possesses anĪrsenal of magical items, including the Lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a golden tiara, and an invisible jet. Her Amazonian-training helped to develop a wide range ofĮxtraordinary skills in strategy, hunting, fighting and weapon mastery. However, in recent years she has been depicted as the daughter of Zeus,Īnd jointly raised by her mother Hippolyta and her aunts Antiope and Wonder Woman was sculpted from clay by her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and given life along with superhuman powers as gifts by the Greek Gods. ![]() So ingenious in fact that both boys and girls continued to follow her comic book adventures every month (and that was something never really done up until that point in time). This idea of an all-powerful female character that could stand out in a boys world and give the girls something to cheer for was ingenious. Marston was also inspired from early feminists, and especially from birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger. Their cohabitant, Olive Byrne, is credited as being Marston's muse for Wonder Woman's physical appearance. But no matter where she, Wonder Woman commands the utmost respect! She's so respected in fact, that she is a member of the "holy" Trinity of DC Comics (Superman and Batman are the other members), so nobody can deny her influence and value to the comic book world.Ĭreated by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston, with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and artist H. In her homeland on Paradise Island, she is known as Princess Diana of Themyscira, and to the outside world, she is known by her secret identity Diana Prince. While being the first "true" female comic book superhero character, she is also a founding member of the Justice League, Queen of the Amazons and a full-fledged demigoddess who can kick some serious ass. Wonder Woman is without a doubt one of the most important superheroes ever created. ![]()
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