Wonder Woman Unbound (51 page)

Marble, Alice, and Dale Leatherman.
Courting Danger: My Adventures in World-Class Tennis, Golden-Age Hollywood, and High-Stakes Spying
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

Marston, William Moulton.
Emotions of Normal People
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1928.

_________.
The Private Life of Julius Caesar (Venus with Us).
New York: Universal, 1953.

_________. “Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics.”
American Scholar
13 (January 1944): 35–44.

_________. “Women: Servants of Civilization.”
Tomorrow
, February 1942, 42–45.

Marston, William Moulton, and H. G. Peter.
Wonder Woman Archives
. Vols. 1–7. New York: DC Comics, 1998–2012.

May, Elaine Tyler.
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Medovoi, Leerom.
Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity
. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Meeley, Heidi. “Lynda Carter She Ain’t! The Reaction Starts.”
Comics Fairplay
blog, January 11, 2008.
http://comicsfairplay.blogspot.com/2008/01/lynda-carter-she-ain.html
.

Melody, M. E., and Linda M. Peterson.
Teaching America About Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed.
Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945–1960
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Miller, John Jackson. “Comic Book Sales by Month.” The Comic Chronicles: A Resource for Comics Research.
www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales.html
.

_________. “Comic Book Sales by Year.” The Comic Chronicles: A Resource for Comics Research.
www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales.html
.

Morse, Ben. “Thunderstruck.”
Wizard Magazine
179 (September 2006).

New York Times
. “Marston Advises 3 L’s for Success.” November 11, 1937.

Nyberg, Amy Kiste.
Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code
. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Olson, Lynne.
Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
. New York: Scribner, 2001.

O’Neil, Denny, Mike Sekowsky, et al.
Diana Prince: Wonder Woman
. Vols. 1–4. New York: DC Comics, 2008–2009.

Playboy
55, no. 2 (February 2008).

Pomeroy, Sarah B. “A Classical Scholar’s Perspective on Matriarchy.” In
Liberating Women’s History: Theoretical and Critical Essays
. Edited by Berenice A. Carroll. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976, 217–223.

Radway, Janice.
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Raphael, Jordan, and Tom Spurgeon.
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003.

Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Feminist Revolution: An Abridged Edition with Additional Writings
. New York: Random House, 1975.

Richard, Olive. “Don’t Laugh at the Comics.”
Family Circle
, October 25, 1940.

_________. “The Women Are Our Future.”
Family Circle
, August 14, 1942.

Ro, Ronin.
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Robbins, Trina.
The Great Women Superheroes
. New York: Kitchen Sink Press, 1996.

_________. “Miss Fury.”
Comics Journal
288 (2007): 110–111.

_________. “Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman’s Community.” Paper presented at WisCon 2006. Available at
www.girl-wonder.org/papers/robbins.html
.

Robinson, Lillian S.
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes.
New York: Routledge, 2004.

Russ, Joanna. “The Image of Women in Science Fiction.” In
Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives
. Edited by Susan Koppelman Cornillon. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1973, 79–94.

Siegel, Jerry, and Joe Shuster. “How Would Superman End World War II?” In
Superman Sunday Classics: Strips 1–183, 1939–1943
. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1999, 187–190.

_________.
The Superman Chronicles
. Vols. 1–10. New York: DC Comics, 2006–2012.

Snyder, Robin. “The Golden Age Gladiator: Robert Kanigher.”
Comics Journal
85 (October 1983).

_________. “The Golden Age Gladiator: Robert Kanigher, Part II.”
Comics Journal
86 (November 1983).

Steinem, Gloria. Introduction to
Wonder Woman
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

Thom, Mary.
Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement
. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Tilley, Carol L. “Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics.”
Information & Culture
47, no. 4 (2012): 383–413.

Tolworthy, Chris. “Marvel and DC Sales Figures.” Enter the Story.
www.zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/comic_sales.html
.

Tong, Rosemarie.
Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction
. 3rd ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 2009.

Weeks, Jeffrey. “Havelock Ellis and the Politics of Sex Reform.” In
Socialism and the New Life: The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
. London: Pluto Press, 1977, 139–185.

Weinstein, Simcha
. Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
. Baltimore: Leviathan Press, 2006.

Wertham, Fredric. “The Comics … Very Funny.”
Saturday Review of Literature
, May 29, 1948, 6–7, 27–29.

_________. “The Curse of Comic Books: The Value Patterns and Effects of Comic Books.”
Religious Education
49 (1954): 394–406.

_________.
Seduction of the Innocent
. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1954.

Willis, Ellen.
No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays.
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1992.

Wolk, Douglas.
Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008.

Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season
. Warner Video, 2004. DVD.

Wright, Bradford W.
Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Wright, Joanne H.
Origin Stories in Political Thought: Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship
. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: The Golden Age

1 The Utopian Alternative

2 Damsels in Distress

3 Amazon Princess, Bondage Queen

Interlude 1: Wonder Woman’s Extra Features

4 A Herculean Task