Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97
By Harrison Smith The Washington Post,Updated April 9, 2021, 4:39 p.m.
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In March 1944, shortly before Joye Hummel graduated from the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school in Manhattan, she was invited to meet with one of her instructors, a charismatic psychologist who had been impressed by her essays on a take-home test.
Over tea at the Harvard Club, professor William Moulton Marston offered her a job - not in the classroom or psych lab, but in the office of his 43rd Street art studio. He wanted Ms. Hummel to help him write scripts for Wonder Woman, the Amazonian superhero he had created three years earlier and endowed with a magic lasso, indestructible bracelets, an eye-catching red bustier and a feminist sensibility.
Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97
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