It’s been over seven decades since Wonder Woman, princess of the Amazonians, stepped onto the pages of the 8th edition of All Star Comics (published by DC comics). First imagined by psychologist William Moulton Marston in 1941, his aim for the female superhero was to ‘set up a standard […] of strong, free, courageous womanhood [and] to combat the idea that women are inferior to men.’ Wonder Woman was the compassionate but fierce answer to Superman and inspired by first-wave feminism, she was to spark controversy from her very beginnings. She has transformed dramatically both in character and aesthetic over her 76 years, taking form as the world’s most adaptable super-heroine, and more significantly, breaking glass ceilings and subverting gender moulds in her wake.
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