Editing DC Comics (section)

===Wonder Woman===
One of the first recognizable superheroes and arguably the first female superhero, Diana is a magical woman - a clay baby brought to life as a superhuman Amazon by the Greek gods - reared on the hidden paradise of Themyscira‎, home of the [[Amazon]]s. After their isolation was broken by a male international spy who crash landed on the island, she willingly embarked on an expedition to "man's world", both to return him and as an ambassador of the Amazonian ways of justice, compassion, tolerance and love. (Also teaching grade-schoolers how to harness their feminine energy to lift tanks, but most people try to forget that.)

Ironically, despite being considered one of "the big three" with Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman has long struggled to actually keep her titles afloat. This might have something to do with the fact that she is generally defined as "The Feminist Superheroine", meaning every writer attached to her has used the Amazons to push ''their'' specifc vision of what feminism is on readers, going back to her creation at the hands of William Marston. (This includes positive and negative versions of feminism; mentioning that time Themyscira attacked the US with giant killer bees is a good way to get some eye-twitches out of a comics geek.) Marston being [[/d/|a grade A sicko]] who called femdom with bondage a "respectable and noble practice" ''in the 1940s'' probably didn't set a good precedent in this regard, but it did set a good precedent in [[PROMOTIONS|lots of art of Wondy getting tied up with her own mind-controlling Lasso of Truth.]] Combined with the continued publication of her title being based on a contractual mandate rather than strong sales and Diana herself lacking a consistent personality of her own and it's not surprising that she's had a rocky history despite being such a major character.

She had a TV series in 1976, loosely based on the Golden Age comic's wartime stories. Needless to say it was less than wondrous, though par for the course of 70s television; it's most fondly remembered for the sweet R&B theme song and Lynda Carter's ability to fill out the character's classic leotard in a flattering manner.