Biographie

9 mai 1893 · Cliftondale, Massachusetts, États-Unis

2 mai 1947 · Rye, New York, États-Unis (cancer de la peau)

William Moulton Marston

Besides creating the "Wonder Woman" character for comic books in 1941, he also is the inventor of the polygraph (lie detector) in 1915.

Olive Richard lived with Marston and his wife and also bore him two sons: Byrne Marston and Donald Richard Marston (1931-1997).

He is buried at Bethel Cemetery Elmwood Station in Bethel, Connecticut.

He didn't start writing for comic books until he was 49 years old.

He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2006.

[on Wonder Woman]: "Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."

The talkies are the only art that would attract Leonardo da Vinci were he alive to-day. This art is a baby giant, as clumsy as all babies are...we don't know what the baby will be doing and saying when it grows up. But we are sure it will make its mark in the world.

If children will read comics, isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read? The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world. Certainly there can be no argument about the advisability of strengthening the fundamental human desire, too often buried beneath stultifying divertissments and disguises, to see god overcome evil.

If you conclude, as I do, that the only hope of a permanent peace and happiness for humanity on this planet is an increased expression of love, and that women are the primary carriers of this great force, one of the problems we face is to provide women with more opportunity for using their love powers. The last six thousand years have demonstrated quite conclusively, I believe, that woman under the domination of man can increase but meagerly the world's total love supply. Our obvious goal, than must be to devise social mechanisms whereby man is brought under the love domination of woman.

Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?