Vintage Wonder Woman Comic Books

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Before the United States entered World War II, our male superheroes like Superman and Captain America were fighting Axis Powers in comic books. But in December 1941, the same month Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a new kind of superhero debuted in...
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Before the United States entered World War II, our male superheroes like Superman and Captain America were fighting Axis Powers in comic books. But in December 1941, the same month Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, a new kind of superhero debuted in issue #8 of “All Star Comics”: Wonder Woman arrived to teach angry, brutish men how to heal the world through love and peace. The next month, January 1942, Wonder Woman appeared on the cover of the first issue of “Sensation Comics.” By summer of 1942 she had her own title with DC Comics. But Wonder Woman was not the first female crime fighter: She was predated by the likes of Phantom Lady, Miss Fury, and Lady Luck. However, she was by far the most iconic, as her first run ended with issue #329 in February 1986. Her comic was relaunched in 1987, and has been printed continually ever since. Besides her own comics, Wonder Woman also appeared as a member of the Justice Society of America in 1941, and then in 1960, she joined the Justice League with Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. Based on Greek mythology, Wonder Woman is a warrior princess, who grows up among a tribe of Amazons on Paradise Island, called Themyscira in later remakes. While Diana (Wonder Woman’s given name) and her ilk possess superhuman strength and superior fighting skills, they’ve long adopted the ways of peace and love. When Diana comes across a downed American pilot, Steve Trevor, she offers to take him back to the war-torn “man’s world” to show them how things had gone awry. Her mother, the Amazon queen, implores her to fight for women’s rights, too. This feminist messaging came from the mind of psychologist William Moulton Marston, inventor of the first lie-detector test, who came to the conclusion that women were more honest and dependable than men. Marston hoped to use comics to create a strong role model for girls, to teach girls how to stand up for themselves. Writing under the pen name Charles...
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