La historia secreta de Wonder Woman

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From the Publisher In 1943, Gaines asked one of his editors, Dorothy Roubicek, to propose a solution that might answer the members of the editorial advisory board who were troubled by the chains in Wonder Woman comics, while also accommodating Marston, who insisted on the importance of this theme to his feminist argument. After meeting with Roubicek, Gaines sent Marston Roubicek’s proposed “list of methods which can be used to keep women confined or enclosed without the use of chains.” Marston was unmoved. “Please thank Miss Roubicek for the list of menaces,” he wrote Gaines, drily. Nevertheless, in “Victory at Sea,” Sensation Comics #15 (March 1943), Wonder Woman is wrapped in a straitjacket and locked in a jail— the kind of menace Roubicek preferred. In April 1942, Gaines conducted a poll, asking readers, “Should WONDER WOMAN be allowed, even though a woman, to become a member of the Justice Society?” Of the first 1,801 questionnaires returned, 1,265 boys and 333 girls said “Yes”; 197 boys and just 6 girls said “No.” Wonder Woman joined the Justice Society in the August– September 1942 issue of All-Star Comics. The stories, though, were written not by Marston but by Gardner Fox, who relegated Wonder Woman to the role of secretary, as in this story from All-Star Comics #14 (December 1942– January 1943). As women’s involvement in the war increased, so did Wonder Woman’s. In “The Invisible Invader,” Comic Cavalcade #3 (Summer 1943), she bests the German military. Later, she’s promoted to “General Wonder Woman.” “Women are gaining power in the man’s world!” Wonder Woman reported to her mother, Hippolyte, at the end of 1943.

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