What Is The Story Of Wonder Woman

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.

Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner … skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.

This collection features ten Wonder Woman stories that can each be read aloud in five minutes. With a sturdy padded cover, this 5-Minute Stories collection makes anytime the perfect time to enjoy the adventures of Wonder Woman! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this collection of tales featuring Wonder Woman and their favorite DC super hero in action. Each story can be read in five minutes or less, so it's perfect for bedtime-or anytime!

An army of foes called the Olympians have risen to begin their all-out assault on war across the globe and only Wonder Woman can stop them! One particular attack could spell the end of the Department of Metahuman Affairs and end WW's secret identity of Diana Prince. And Wonder Woman's life is changed forever when she faces a monster named Genocide who easily goes toe to- toe with the comic book icon...and beats her! Don't miss this crucial arc in Wonder Woman's history! Collecting issues #14-19 of her hit series!

In these tales from the 1990s, Wonder Woman battles to protect humanity from threats like the reborn god of war, Ares, while helping her allies and friends to find their own paths to peace. Along the way, Wonder Woman collides with Boston mobsters and enlists the help of Superman to discover what calamity has befallen her home of Themyscira! Collects Wonder Woman #77-89 and DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman ’90s #1.

Born of the fallout from mythic wars fought among the Olympian gods and their mortal worshippers, Diana, warrior princess of the Amazon island-nation of Themyscira, collides with the modern world as the horrors of the ancient past resurface to wreak havoc with male-dominated 21st century. Together with roguish U.S. air force pilot Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman acts as both ambassador of her people and selfless protector of the innocent.