Cecille's Creativity

Guest post from: Natalie Walter

Since I was a very little girl, my favorite superhero has been Wonder Woman. I remember being five years old and wishing I could be like her. Zooming around the world in her silent invisible airplane, saving humanity from tyrannical villains and natural disasters, Wonder Woman was my personal role model. She insisted that every girl could be a wonder woman once she realized the true power of women. In the 1950s, with most of the TV and comic book world chock-full of male heroes and women relegated to the supporting cast, this was pretty heady stuff!

Wonder Woman was created in 1940 by William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who believed women were superior to men. He wanted to see a female superhero who was active and fearless but would ultimately conquer evil with love. Marston based the character's personality partly on his wife Elizabeth and partly on his friend Olive Byrne, whose beautiful silver bracelets would be seen deflecting bullets in the pages of Sensation Comics beginning in October 1941.

Since then, Wonder Woman has always been around in some form. Even when she temporarily lost her powers in the 1970s she learned martial arts and went right on fighting for the rights of women. As a member of the Justice League of America, she's starred in a number of great cartoons. I like to watch her in "The Justice League Unlimited" on Cartoon Network via directv arabic channels.