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Show 219 that we should at least give them something "constructive" to read. The comic book format allowed him the vehicle to freely elaborate his ideas of submissive/dominative relationships, and his vision for a world controlled by women. Two years after the first issue of Wonder Woman was released, Marston remarked: "Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. There isn't love enough in the male organism to ran this planet peacefully. Woman's body contains twice as many love generating organs and endocrine mechanisms as the male. What woman lacks is the dominance or self-assertive power to put over and enforce her love desires." I was twelve when I discovered Wonder Woman for the first time. I found two archives of her comic book adventures on the lower-back comer of a neglected bookshelf in our dusty garage in Pleasant Grove, Utah. I was accustomed to browsing the metal shelves and banana boxes in the garage, hoping to find something interesting that my parents had not given away. I had already found two daggers made in India, some wooden shoes from Holland, and my mother's high school yearbook, among other artifacts. However, I was more surprised to find two Wonder Woman books in a library that consisted almost entirely of books comprising the following categories: church, classics, motivational, and how-to books about buying and selling real estate. The comic books, though published in 1980, contained the first of Wonder Woman's adventures in America, the ones written by Marston in the early 1940s. |