![]() ![]() ![]() It took a super-sleuth to uncover the mysteries of this intricate history, hidden from view for more than half a century. He insisted that the underlying meaning of all Wonder Woman stories was “a great movement now under way - the growth in the power of women.” According to Lepore, he “wanted the kids who read his comics to imagine a woman as president of the United States.” An extraordinarily gifted huckster, Marston was a self-proclaimed feminist who believed women should - and would someday - rule the world. Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, invented the lie detector test, once belonged to a sex cult, lived most of his life in a radically unconventional menage a trois (sometimes quatre), and was featured in a series of misleading Family Circle articles written by his live-in mistress, who never disclosed their real relationship, not even to the two children she bore with him. ![]()
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