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Wonder Woman was created by the psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston, under the pen name Charles Moulton, with artist Harry G. Peter in 1941. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8, published the 21st of October 1941, with her first feature in Sensation Comics #1 in January 1942.
Marston designed Wonder Woman as an allegory for the ideal love leader, the kind of woman he believed should rule society. He wrote that she was "psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who, I believe, should rule the world." His wife Elizabeth suggested the hero should be a woman, and he drew the character's bracelets from those worn by Olive Byrne.
In her original Golden Age origin, Wonder Woman was sculpted from clay by her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and given life and superpowers as gifts from the Greek goddesses. The New 52 reboot in 2011 instead made her the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta, but the clay origin was fully restored in 2023 during Tom King's run.
Wonder Woman has superhuman strength, speed, flight, and near-invulnerability granted by Olympian deities, summed up in the epithet "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Hermes, and stronger than Hercules." Her arsenal includes the Lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, and a tiara that serves as a projectile.
Wonder Woman has been portrayed in film and television by Linda Harrison, Cathy Lee Crosby, Lynda Carter, Megan Gale, Adrianne Palicki, and Gal Gadot. Animated voice performers include Shannon Farnon, Susan Eisenberg, Maggie Q, Lucy Lawless, Keri Russell, Rosario Dawson, Cobie Smulders, Rachel Kimsey, and Stana Katic.
Wonder Woman Day is celebrated on October 21 each year, the anniversary of her first appearance in All Star Comics #8 in 1941.
Many early stories depicted Wonder Woman freeing herself from bondage as a deliberate counterpoint to the "damsels in distress" trope common in 1940s comics. Marston, who described bondage and submission as a "respectable and noble practice," also wrote in a weakness called "Aphrodite's Law," which removed her super strength if a man chained her bracelets together.