Who is Wonder Woman?
A: Wonder Woman is an American comic book super heroine.
Who created it?
A: The American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston and artist
Harry G. Peter.
Marston's wife, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byrne, are credited as being his inspiration for the character's appearance
Wonder Woman is published by whom?
A: DC Comics.
The character is a founding member of what?
A: The Justice League.
Where did the character first appear?
A: In All Star Comics #8 published October 21, 1941, with her first feature
in Sensation Comics #1 in January 1942.
In her homeland, the island nation of Themyscira, what
is her official title?
A: Princess Diana of Themyscira.
When blending into the society outside of her homeland,
she sometimes adopts what civilian identity?
A: Diana Prince.
Wonder Woman's origin story (from Golden to Bronze Age)
relates that she was sculpted from what?
A: Clay.
Who sculpted her?
A: Her mother Queen Hippolyta.
She was given a life as an Amazon, along with what?
A: Superhuman powers as gifts by the Greek gods.
In 2011, DC changed her background with the retcon that
she is what?
A: The biological daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta, jointly raised by her
mother and her aunts Antiope and Menalippe.
The character has changed in depiction over the
decades, including briefly what?
A: Losing her powers entirely in the late 1960s.
By the 1980s, artist George Perez gave her what?
A: An athletic look and emphasized her Amazonian heritage.
She possesses an arsenal of magical items, including
what?
A: Lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves
as a projectile.
In older stories, she had a range of devices based on
what?
A: Amazon technology.
Wonder Woman's character was created during what?
A: World War II.
The character in the story was initially depicted
fighting what?
A: Axis forces as well as an assortment of colorful supervillains.
Over time her stories came to place greater emphasis on
characters, deities, and monsters from what?
A: Greek mythology.
Wonder Woman has regularly appeared in comic books
featuring what superhero teams?
A: Justice Society (from 1941) and Justice League (from 1960).
Wonder Woman has been featured in various media from
radio to television and film and appears in what?
A: Merchandise sold around the world, such as apparel, toys, dolls, jewelry,
and video games.
Wonder Woman has been depicted in both film and
television by whom?
A: Cathy Lee Crosby, Lynda Carter, and in the DC Extended Universe films by
Gal Gadot.
In an October 1940 interview with the Family Circle
magazine, William Moulton Marston discussed what?
A: The unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium.
This article caught the attention of who?
A: Comics publisher Max Gaines, who hired Marston as an educational
consultant for National Periodicals and All-American Publications, two of
the companies that would merge to form DC Comics.
At that time, Marston wanted to create his own new
superhero; Marston's wife and fellow psychologist Elizabeth suggested what
to him?
A: That it should be a woman.