Wonder Woman The Complete Newspaper Comics

Author:   William Moulton Marston ,  Harry G. Peters
Publisher:   Idea & Design Works
ISBN:  

9781631400285


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   21 October 2014
Recommended Age:   From 13
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   William Moulton Marston ,  Harry G. Peters
Publisher:   Idea & Design Works
Imprint:   Library of American Comics
Dimensions:   Width: 28.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   1.166kg
ISBN:  

9781631400285


ISBN 10:   1631400282
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   21 October 2014
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   General/trade ,  Young adult ,  General ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Historically important as well as wildly entertaining, Wonder Woman the Complete Newspaper Strip (1944-1945) is the find of the year for everyone who loves adventure, history, women's studies, comic books, and heroes. -- New York Journal of Books IDW does a great service to fans and historians alike by collecting the often forgotten superhero strips of the Golden Age... -- The Comics Journal


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William Moulton Marston--who wrote under the pen name Charles Marston--was a Harvard-educated psychologist and inventor, who developed, with the help of his wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, the systolic blood pressure test, which is a major component of the modern polygraph, or lie detector. His most well-known creation, however, is probably Wonder Woman, the first and most famous female superhero, whose popularity has endured for more than 75 years. Through his work as a psychologist and development of the blood pressure test, Marston came to believe that women were superior to men, finding them to be more honest and loving in particular. He ultimately concluded that a female-dominated society was both preferable and inevitable, and set about propogating this philosophy through his work in both comics and psychology. Wonder Woman first appeared in 1940, inspired by both Marston's wife and a former student of his, Olive Byrne, who lived with the couple and maintained a relationship with each of them that continued throughout their lives. Marston developed the concept with the blessing of Bill Gaines, co-publisher of All-American Publications, home of Green Lantern and the Flash, among others. Marston sought to subvert the trope of a superhero who defeats his enemies through fighting and violence, instead creating a character that conquered through love. Following a small introduction in All-Star Comics #8, Wonder Woman made her cover debut in Sensation Comics #1. Marston would continue writing and developing the character over the next six years, in both Sensation and her self-titled series, until his death in 1947.

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