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Creator William Moulton Marston continues his run writing the character he created with four more tales starring the woman warrior: 'The Adventure of the Life Vitamin,' 'America's Wonder Women of Tomorrow,' 'The Secret Weapon,' and 'The Demon of the Depths.'

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.

After helping a group of Amazon girls pass their initiation rites, Wonder Woman is sent by Aphrodite to inspire a race of Venusian women to repel their enemies: the evil Seal Men, who have kidnapped Eve, daughter of Queen Desira.

"Menace of the Mirror-Wonder Woman!" Wonder Woman fights the Image-Maker, a villain who exists within a world of mirrors.

Steve trails Wonder Woman to Paradise Island and discovers he has a rival.

After Diana Prince finds that Steve Trevor is too shy to consider taking Wonder Woman out, she asks Queen Hippolyta for advice. She tells Diana a story of how she used some clever tactics to get the attention of a certain demi-god.

Diana discovers that a girl is hiding out from a trio of women whose leader seeks to bring her back as a collared slave.

Steve Trevor and Mer-Man compete for Wonder WomanÕs hand, only to find themselves at odds with a knight in shining armor with a flying saucer.