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Wonder Woman debuted in ''All Star Comics'' #8 for December, 1941; her cover debut would take place in the January, 1942 issue of ''Sensation Comics'' #1.  The new character possessed great strength, speed and agility, and endurance, though unlike [[Superman]] she is not bulletproof, but to deflect them she wears a pair of [[magic]] bracelets.  Finishing off her ensemble was a legacy of Marston's polygraph, an indestructible golden lasso able to force anyone bound in it to tell her the truth.  

Wonder Woman debuted in ''All Star Comics'' #8 for December, 1941; her cover debut would take place in the January, 1942 issue of ''Sensation Comics'' #1.  The new character possessed great strength, speed and agility, and endurance, though unlike [[Superman]] she is not bulletproof, but to deflect them she wears a pair of [[magic]] bracelets.  Finishing off her ensemble was a legacy of Marston's polygraph, an indestructible golden lasso able to force anyone bound in it to tell her the truth.  

Marston also had another legacy which crept into the comic stories during his time authoring them.  Marston was a feminist; he believed in empowering women to be equal to men, and much of his work on Wonder Woman showed off the character's athletic prowess and intelligence.  In his own avant-garde life he had a wife (lawyer Elizabeth Holloway) and a mistress (Olive Byrne) who lived in the same house, and he fathered children with both women.  Byrne - the real name of the ''Family Circle'' writer Olive Richard - was also the niece of [[Margaret Sanger]], the individual who gave America [[eugenics]], [[abortion]] on demand, and [[Planned Parenthood]].  Despite believing in the superiority of women over men, Marston disturbingly added a subtle sadomasochistic bent: the Wonder Woman stories frequently had the heroine in chains, bound, gagged, or subdued; part of the reason for her bracelets was that if a man could bind them, she could be "tamed."  In a letter to publisher Gaines dated February 1943, a member of his advisory board and an expert on children’s literature spoke out about the "sadistic bits showing women chained, tortured, etc." which seemed to be in every issue.<ref>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/origin-story-wonder-woman-180952710/#eoT0wK8FYWF6MVEB.99</ref>  And nearly every issue they would remain until Marston's death in 1947; the characterization of Wonder Woman as related to it would be eliminated altogether by 1954, the result of Congressional hearings into the corruption of children from comic books.<ref>http://cbldf.org/2012/10/tales-from-the-code-whatever-happened-to-the-amazing-amazon-wonder-woman-bound-by-censorship/</ref>

Marston also had another, darker legacy which crept into the comic stories during his time authoring them.  Marston was a feminist; he believed in empowering women to be equal to men, and much of his work on Wonder Woman showed off the character's athletic prowess and intelligence.  In his own avant-garde life he had a wife (lawyer Elizabeth Holloway) and a mistress (Olive Byrne) who lived in the same house, and he fathered children with both women.  Byrne - the real name of the ''Family Circle'' writer Olive Richard - was also the niece of [[Margaret Sanger]], the individual who gave America [[eugenics]], [[abortion]] on demand, and [[Planned Parenthood]].  Despite believing in the superiority of women over men, Marston disturbingly added a subtle sadomasochistic bent: the Wonder Woman stories frequently had the heroine in chains, bound, gagged, or subdued; part of the reason for her bracelets was that if a man could bind them, she could be "tamed."  In a letter to publisher Gaines dated February 1943, a member of his advisory board and an expert on children’s literature spoke out about the "sadistic bits showing women chained, tortured, etc." which seemed to be in every issue.<ref>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/origin-story-wonder-woman-180952710/#eoT0wK8FYWF6MVEB.99</ref>  And nearly every issue they would remain until Marston's death in 1947; the characterization of Wonder Woman as related to it would be eliminated altogether by 1954, the result of Congressional hearings into the corruption of children from comic books.<ref>http://cbldf.org/2012/10/tales-from-the-code-whatever-happened-to-the-amazing-amazon-wonder-woman-bound-by-censorship/</ref>

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