Just been reading
The early Sensation.Comics
So far
Diana has
Found out someone is lying by measuring her blood pressure. She doesn’t have her golden lasso yet.
Unchained herself by doing bullets and bracelets. It seems her strength is gone when chained by a man, but her speed and agility is unaffected.
Gone back to Paradise Island and playing a tie up your opponent game while riding her kanga Jumpa.
Delightful.
Moulton loves inserting his psychological theories into Wonder Woman. The lie detector that he favored was essentially a sphygmomanometer, so Diana detecting a lie this way makes sense.
From Jill Lepore
Secret History of Wonder Woman
A humorous letter from Olive Byrne to her aunt Margaret Sanger. Sanger and Olive’s mom created the first Birth Control center in New York City.
“We had a domestic crisis in the family today, which is in the nature of a grave reflection on me, your niece,” Olive Byrne once reported to Margaret Sanger. “Four weeks ago we had two rabbits, three weeks ago the number was increased, via blessed event, to eight. Father rabbit was hurriedly removed from mother’s vicinity and has lived a solitary life since. However, today we were presented with ten more—father apparently made an affectionate good bye.”
Re
Sheldon Mayer opinion on
Bob Kanigher’s work on
Wonder Woman,
After Marston died
Mayer had never liked Kanigher’s Wonder Woman stories. The first time Kanigher gave Mayer a Wonder Woman script, Kanigher said, “I brought it in and he threw it on the floor and jumped up and down on it. I picked it up, went home, and came back with another Wonder Woman story. He went into his routine of throwing it on the floor and jumping up and down on it."
See
Secret Origins the Story of DC Comics
Starting at
17 minutes 35 seconds
For Marston and Wonder Woman
Movie about Creator of Wonder Woman.
Professor Marston.and the Wonder Woman is currently on Hulu
The Marston Family claims this story about the relationship between the two women is false
The two women in the story stayed together after the death of Marston until one died.
Each had two children from him
Also
The above video says Direcor / Screenwriter did not contact family but showed film to Zach and Debbie Snyder who produced Batman.v Superman and Gloria Steinem who put Wonder Woman on.rhe cover of Ms Magazinr 1 and forced DC Comics to give her back her super powers. All three liked the film
A scene from.the movie
Is from Marston’s book on Psychology
Emotions of Normal People
Girls Punishing Girls Experience Captivation
Emotion Studies of the emotions reported by sophomores and upper class girls during their annual punishment of the freshmen girls were made by Miss Olive Byrne and myself, during the academic year 1925-1926.[3] It was the college custom for upper class girls to draw up a set of rules which freshmen girls were required to follow. These rules called for the usual restrictions of behaviour, wearing freshman buttons, and general yielding to the direction of the older girls. In the spring of the freshmen year, the sophomore girls held what was called “The Baby Party”, which all freshmen girls were compelled to attend.
At this affair, the freshmen girls were duly questioned as to their misdemeanors and punished for their disobediences and rebellions. The baby party was so named because the freshmen girls were required to dress like babies. At the party, the freshmen girls were put through various stunts under command of the sophomores. Upon one occasion, for instance, the freshmen girls were led into a dark corridor where their eyes were blindfolded, and their arms were bound behind them. Only one freshman at a time was taken through this corridor along which sophomore guards were stationed at intervals. This arrangement was designed to impress the girls punished with the impossibility of escape from their captresses. After a series of harmless punishments, each girl was led into a large room where all the Junior and Senior girls were assembled. There she was sentenced to go through various exhibitions, supposed to be especially suitable to punish each particular girl’s failures to submit to discipline imposed by the upper class girls. The sophomore girls carried long sticks with which to enforce, if necessary, the stunts which the freshmen were required to perform. While this programme did not call for a series of pre-arranged physical struggles between individual girls, as did the class banquet contest of the boys previously reported, frequent rebellion of the freshmen against the commands of their captresses and guards furnished the most exciting portion of the entertainment according to the report of a majority of the upper class girls. Nearly all the sophomores reported excited pleasantness of captivation emotion throughout the party. The pleasantness of their captivation responses appeared to increase when they were obliged to overcome rebellious freshmen physically, or to induce them by repeated commands and added punishments to perform the actions from which the captive girls strove to escape. On the other hand, when a freshman occasionally cried, or showed signs of fear, her sophomore guards, in every instance, reported a feeling of unpleasantness, with emotions of “sympathy” and “feeling sorry for her”. They nearly always told the freshmen thus affected “not to be afraid”, and persuaded her to go on rather than compelling her to do so. (This behaviour is in marked contrast to male college hazers, who frequently treated with injurious violence a boy who weakened or “turned yellow”). From these studies of girls’ reactions, it seemed evident that the strongest and most pleasant captivation emotion was experienced during a struggle with girls who were trying to escape from their captivity. A totally different type of love response was invariably evoked by indication of suffering or unpleasantness experienced by the captive.
In the latter case, or when a girl submitted with complete docility, an almost pure inducement response was evoked from the older girl, with considerable admixture of active submission to the needs of the girl who was being punished. It seems probable that the costumes worn by the freshmen girls enhanced, considerably, both the passive submission and the active inducement emotions of the upper class girls although great reticence of introspective description, due to conventional suppressions, prevented this type of response from appearing with complete frankness in the reports received. On the whole, it would seem that the upper class girls experienced pure captivation emotion of great pleasantness. Little, if any, admixture of dominance could be detected in the reports, or in the observed behaviour of the girls toward their younger charges. While the struggle of the girl punished to escape her punishment by physically overcoming her captress apparently gave the strongest and most pleasant captivation response to both girls, there were many indications that captivation emotion was present at all times during the behaviour reported, and even before and after the Baby Party, in nearly as strong and pleasant a form as during the struggle situation. Perhaps a love hormone is operative in the female organism from early childhood, predisposing girls and women to captivation emotion by evoking passive submission by intra-organic stimulation. Certainly this response appears in the behaviour and in the naive introspection of the girls studied in very much purer and more consistent form than in male responses to corresponding environmental stimulus situations. Female behaviour also contains still more evidence than male behaviour that captivation emotion is not limited to inter-sex relationships. The person of another girl seems to evoke from female subjects, under appropriate circumstances, fully as strong captivation response as does that of a male.
Need to nail down final details but looks like we’ll have a BYOM Watch-Along with Harley’s Crew on Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. More on that later.
A little heads up on Diana’s life on the island-
While Supes’ buddy Krypto and BMan’s doggo Ace came along later in their comics runs (about twenty years or so after their introductions), Diana’s kangaroo pal Jumpa was on the scene as early as Sensation Comics number six. The amazons used to have kangaroo riding contests on Themyscira and Jumpa then became Diana’s adoring buddy.
My first thought was “wonder if Jumpa made it till today as a super pet?” happy to say she did.
Deleted scene from Wonder Woman 1984
Re Jumpa
Re
Professor Marston
And the Wonder Woman
In order to introduce drama
This film has Marston’s wife
Working as a secretary.
Her Wikiledia entry
Shows she had many
high level jobs
Which allowed her to
Support the family
Elizabeth and William married in 1915. She first gave birth at age 35, then returned to work. During her long and productive career, she indexed the documents of the first fourteen Congresses, lectured on law, ethics, and psychology at several American universities, and served as an editor for Encyclopædia Britannica and McCall’s . She cowrote a textbook, Integrative Psychology , with her husband and C. Daly King. In 1933, she became the assistant to the chief executive at Metropolitan Life Insurance.[2][4]
Sometime in the late 1920s, Olive Byrne, a young woman William had met while teaching at Tufts University, joined the household. Marston had two children, Pete and Olive Ann, while Byrne also gave birth to two of William’s children, Byrne and Donn. The Marstons legally adopted Olive’s boys, but Olive remained a part of the family, even after William’s death in 1947.[2][4]
Olive stayed home with the children while Marston worked. Continuing at MetLife until she was sixty-five, Elizabeth put all four children through college and Byrne through medical school and Donn through law school as well. She and Olive continued living together until Olive’s death in 1990.[2][4] Both Olive and Marston “embodied the feminism of the day.”[
What book is that from?
Batman 2016 #40
From Secret History of Wonder Women by Jill Lepore
Page 237
(For the record, Marston’s son Byrne is really pretty certain that when Marston talked about the importance of bondage, he meant it only metaphorically. “I never saw anything like that in our house,” Byrne Marston told me when I asked. “He didn’t tie the ladies up to the bedpost. He’d never have gotten away with it.”)
Page 121
What Marston wanted went well past free love. Olive Byrne wanted, desperately, to be part of a family.
Holloway wanted something else. When Marston told Holloway he wanted Byrne to move in with them—and told her she had to choose between that and living without him—she was thinking about more than the sexual arrangements.
She was also wondering whether this way of living might offer a solution to the bind she was in as a woman who wanted to have both a career and children. Hardly a magazine was sold, in 1925 and 1926, that didn’t feature an article that asked, “Can a Woman Run a Home and a Job, Too?”
…
Elizabeth Holloway Marston, a New Woman living in a New Age, made a deal with her husband. Marston could have his mistress. Holloway could have her career. And young Olive Byrne, trained in the science of psychology, would raise the children. They’d find a way to explain it, to hide it. The arrangement would be their secret. No one else need ever know.
