Some Origins of Wonder Woman

      New York - DC Comics launched Wonder Woman, partly, in response to backlash by concerned parents against violence in comic books like Superman and Batman.  Wonder Woman's creator was  psychologist, William Moulton Marston.  In the mid-to-late 1940s, Wonder Woman was to be a magic bullet that could empower women and silence critics who said comics always contained too much violence.  As William Marston put it in 1945, Wonder Woman would act as "Psychological propaganda for the new type of woman, I believe, should rule the world."  "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" is not just her history, but a story of feminism and birth control.  Wonder Woman appeared just as America entered the second world war in December 1941.  Of the thousands of comic-book characters created in the 1940s, only Superman and Batman were more popular.  See full story, www.economist.com.