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Like many treasured beliefs, this one is wrong.
That honor went to the many-armed Hindu goddess Kali,
holding a frying pan, a typewriter, a mirror, and other tools of the hyper-multitasking modern woman.
Wonder Woman graced the SECOND issue's cover.
William Moulton Marston,
the inventor of Wonder Woman, believed women were superior to men and should run the world—
and would do so in, oh, about a thousand years.
Hey, his heart was in the right place. Ah, or was it?
{William Moulton Marston testing his lie detector in a 1922 photo}
He was an American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman.
Marston had a great deal of help from his wife, Elizabeth Holloway
(we have
her to thank for “Suffering Sappho,” “Great Hera,” and other Amazonian
expostulations),
as well as from his former student Olive Byrne,
with
whom he and Holloway lived in a permanent ménage à trois that produced
four children,
two from each woman.
Olive Byrne was the niece of Margaret Sanger,
whose youthful
brand of romantic, socialist-pacifist feminism was formative for
Marston.
Strange, huh?
Talking about things becoming strange ...
My DON'T BUY MY BOOK! Blog Tour is taking a strange turn ...
on October 12th
to the blog of
Crystal Collier
It is a strange sort of guest post.
Don't believe me?
Check it out for yourself!
