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About What Is The Story Of Wonder
Product Description Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library!Wonder Woman--DC Comics' greatest female superhero--flies onto our What Is the Story Of? list. She is a founding member of the Justice League, a goddess, and an ambassador of the Amazonian people. Wonder Woman burst onto the comic book scene during World War II. For more than seventy years, she has been fighting for equality, power, and truth with her lasso of truth in one hand and her sword in the other. Author Steve Korté shares the story of how one of the first and foremost superheroines was created, and how she came to be such a powerful feminist icon. About the Author Steve Korté worked as an editor with DC Comics for many years. He is now a freelance writer and has written books for Capstone Press, DC Comics, Dorling Kindersley, HarperCollins, Little, Brown and Company, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Warner Bros. He lives in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. What Is the Story of Wonder Woman? On October 21, 1941, issue number eight of a comic book called All-Star Comics hit the newsstands and stores in America. It contained an exciting story starring the super hero team known as the Justice Society of America. Superman and Batman were members of the team. But this story featured other heroes—including Hawkman, Dr. Fate, Johnny Thunder, Sandman, Starman, Doctor Mid-Nite, and an owl named Hooty—who joined forces to fight a criminal mastermind known as Professor Elba. Within the back pages of this same issue was a shorter story featuring the debut of another super hero. But this was a super hero like no other in comic history. In a time when nearly every comic book hero was a man, this hero’s name was Wonder Woman. And that’s not all that made her unique. The background history of the character—her origin story—was inspired by Greek and Roman myths that have been around for thousands of years. In this first story she was compared to gods and goddesses: “As lovely as Aphrodite—as wise as Athena—with the speed of Mercury and the strength of Hercules.” Her mother was the queen of the Amazons, a tribe of strong warrior women who lived on Paradise Island, where no men were allowed. Wonder Woman was the strongest and bravest of all the Amazons! By the end of the story, this Amazing Amazon was ready to leave Paradise Island so that she could save America—and the rest of the world—from disaster. The story of Wonder Woman had begun! Chapter 1: To Tell the Truth Like almost every other comic book super hero, Wonder Woman had a secret identity. On Paradise Island, she was known as Princess Diana, the daughter of the queen of the Amazons. In America, her secret identity was a nurse named Diana Prince. What few people knew, though, was that the man who wrote the Wonder Woman comics had a secret identity of his own. In the earliest stories, he was credited as “Charles Moulton.” But that was not his real name. William Moulton Marston—called Bill by his family and friends—was the man who created Wonder Woman. But that was just one of his many accomplishments. He was also a lawyer, a psychologist, a scientist, a professor, and an inventor. In many ways, his origin story was as interesting as Wonder Woman’s! Bill was born in Massachusetts in 1893. He grew up in a household filled with a loving family that included his parents and four aunts. He had a happy childhood, and while he was in elementary school, he started writing stories, poems, and plays. His mother thought he was a genius. By the time he entered high school, Bill had grown tall and handsome. He excelled in his classes, played football, and was elected class president. Early on, he developed an interest in Greek history and mythology. In high school, he wrote a class paper that was an imaginary conversation between himself and Clio, the Greek goddess of history. Since the eighth grade, Bill had been i
