Editing Wonder Woman (section)

===Creation===
[[File:Wonder Woman Concept Art (Golden Age).jpg|thumb|right| Original [[illustration]] of Wonder Woman by [[H. G. Peter]], circa 1941.]]
In an October 1940 interview with the ''Family Circle'' magazine, [[William Moulton Marston]] discussed the unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lyons|first=Charles|title=Suffering Sappho! A Look at the Creator & Creation of Wonder Woman|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7921|website=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=August 23, 2006|access-date=August 23, 2006|quote=In October 1940, the popular women's magazine "Family Circle" published an interview with Marston entitled "Don't Laugh at the Comics," in which the psychologist discussed the unfulfilled potential of the medium.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420133117/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7921|archive-date=April 20, 2008|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> This article caught the attention of comics publisher [[Max Gaines]], who hired Marston as an educational consultant for National Periodicals and [[All-American Publications]], two of the companies that would merge to form [[DC Comics]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Lyons|first=Charles|title=Suffering Sappho! A Look at the Creator & Creation of Wonder Woman|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7921|website=[[Comic Book Resources]]|date=August 23, 2006|access-date=August 23, 2006|quote=Maxwell Charles Gaines, then publisher of All-American Comics, saw the interview and offered Marston a job as an educational consultant to All-American and sister company DC Comics.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420133117/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=7921|archive-date=April 20, 2008|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> At that time, Marston wanted to create his own new superhero; Marston's wife and fellow psychologist [[Elizabeth Holloway Marston|Elizabeth]] suggested to him that it should be a woman:<ref name="Bostonia">{{cite web | last=Lamb | first=Marguerite | date=Fall 2001 | url=http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/fall/wonderwoman/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208045132/http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/fall/wonderwoman/| archive-date=December 8, 2007 | title=Who Was Wonder Woman? | work=Bostonia }}</ref>

{{blockquote|William Moulton Marston, a psychologist already famous for inventing the [[polygraph]], struck upon an idea for a new kind of superhero, one who would triumph not with fists or firepower, but with love. "Fine," said Elizabeth. "But make her a woman."}}

Marston introduced the idea to Gaines. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed ''Wonder Woman'', whom he believed to be a model of that era's unconventional, liberated woman. Marston also drew inspiration from the bracelets worn by [[Olive Byrne]], who lived with the couple in a [[polyamorous]] relationship.<ref>{{Cite book | first=Les | last=Daniels | title=Wonder Woman: The Complete History | publisher=Chronicle Books | date=April 6, 2004 | pages=28–30 | isbn=978-0-8118-4233-4}}</ref> Wonder Woman debuted in ''[[All Star Comics]]'' [[Introducing Wonder Woman|#8]] ([[cover date]] Dec/Jan 1941/1942, released in October 1941),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dcindexes.com/features/comic.php?comicid=2249 |title=All-Star Comics #8 |author=Library of Congress |website=dcindexes.com |publisher=Mike's Amazing World |access-date=May 19, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907075954/http://www.dcindexes.com/features/comic.php?comicid=2249 |archive-date=September 7, 2017  }}</ref> scripted by Marston. Marston was the creator of a systolic-blood-pressure-measuring apparatus, which was crucial to the development of the polygraph (lie detector). Marston's experience with polygraphs convinced him that women were more honest than men in certain situations and could work more efficiently.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Bunn | first=Geoffrey C. | title=The lie detector, ''Wonder Woman'', and liberty: The life and work of William Moulton Marston | journal=History of the Human Sciences | volume=10 | issue=1 | location=London | publisher=[[Routledge]] | year=1997 | pages=91–119 | doi=10.1177/095269519701000105| s2cid=143152325  |issn = 0952-6951}}</ref>

Marston designed Wonder Woman to be an allegory for the [[Love leadership|ideal love leader]]; the kind of woman who he believed should run society. "Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world", Marston wrote.<ref name="Hendrix2007">{{Cite news|title=Out for Justice|last=Hendrix|first=Grady|date=December 11, 2007|newspaper=[[The New York Sun]]}}</ref>

In a 1943 issue of ''[[The American Scholar (magazine)|The American Scholar]]'', Marston wrote:<ref>{{cite web|last=Tartakovsky|first=Margarita|title=A Psychologist and A Superhero|work=World of Psychology |url=http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/05/17/a-psychologist-and-a-superhero/|publisher=Psych Central|access-date=November 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519072637/http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/05/17/a-psychologist-and-a-superhero/|archive-date=May 19, 2012|url-status=live|date=May 17, 2011}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.|William Moulton Marston}}

Marston was an outspoken [[feminist]], [[polyamorist]], and firm believer in the superiority of women.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/marston_william-moulton.htm |title=William Moulton Marston |website=Lambiek Comiclopedia |access-date=June 25, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Archived copy">{{Cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/lgbt-superheroes-wonder-woman-lesbian-gay-queer-1201838274/ |title=LGBT Superheroes: Why 'Wonder Woman' Could Never Have Been the Lesbian Avenger We Still Need |access-date=July 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725123004/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/lgbt-superheroes-wonder-woman-lesbian-gay-queer-1201838274/ |archive-date=July 25, 2018 |url-status=live  |date=June 7, 2017 }}</ref> He described [[Dominance and submission|bondage and submission]] as a "respectable and noble practice". Marston wrote in a weakness for Wonder Woman, which was attached to a fictional stipulation that he dubbed "Aphrodite's Law", that made the chaining of her "Bracelets of Submission" together by a man take away her Amazonian super strength.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://comicvine.gamespot.com/wonder-womans-bracelets/4055-51517/ |title=Wonder Woman's Bracelets (Object) |website=Comicvine.gamespot.com |access-date=December 14, 2016 |quote=In the golden age if Diana's bracelets (or those of any Amazon) were bound by a man it made her lose all her powers. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161109211443/http://comicvine.gamespot.com/wonder-womans-bracelets/4055-51517/ |archive-date=November 9, 2016 |url-status=live  }}</ref>

{{blockquote|The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound... only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society.|William Moulton Marston}}