![]() Not that Marston believed women should be passive, loving wimps. He truly believed that if women ran the world, it would be a better place. For him, it wasn’t just about equal rights or equal pay. Marston-who held a PhD in psychology, was a university professor and a Hollywood consultant, and helped invent the polygraph-had a somewhat unorthodox view of feminism. And she didn’t have to fight a glass ceiling she came from a community of women. (More often, she did the rescuing.) She wasn’t anybody’s sidekick. She was also a bit of a Trojan horse, carrying the message of feminism to young comic-book readers. Unlike many of the early comic-book creators, most of whom were teenage boys who created superheroes as stand-ins for themselves, performing the amazing feats that they knew they were truly capable of in a more just world where physical strength and dexterity were awarded to the deserving, Marston invented Wonder Woman to illustrate his vision of a better world for everyone. The material is right there, presented in entertaining form, in Tim Hanley’s new book, Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine. It’s a terrible injustice that Wonder Woman has not yet gotten her own superhero movie (let alone franchise), but it’s even worse that a movie has not been made about her creator, William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman’s first comic-book appearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close ![]()
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