Having been the world’s tallest skyscraper until 1967, it is now New York’s third tallest (381 m and 443 m with its antenna), behind 432 Park Avenue (425 m) and the One World Trade Center (541 m). Its name comes from “The Empire State”, the nickname of the state of New York. The mythical Art Deco building, inaugurated in 1931, is one of the most famous buildings in the world. One of his works stands out in particular and has left its mark on generations of film lovers: the film King Kong (1933). The first superheroine in the comic book galaxy, Wonder Woman, like her creator William Moulton Marson, is a feminist icon that has spanned the decades.Ī true star of the New York skyline, the Empire State Building has inspired many authors and has appeared in numerous works. Notorious anti-feminist, the man had all the assets to become a paper super-villain. William Moulton Marston explains that the creation of the Amazon Queen was intended to : “set up a standard among children and young people of strong free courageous women and to combat the idea women are inferior to men, and to inspire girls to self-confidence and achievements in athletics, occupations and professions monopolized by men.”įor the character of Doctor Psycho, Wonder Woman’s enemy, the writer was inspired by Hugo Münsterberg, his undergraduate psychology tutor. A model of strong, free and courageous femininity His wife, Elizabeth, gave him the idea of a female superhero to distinguish herself from all the other male characters in DC. He then proposed to create a superhero who would not win his fights by his strength but by love. After unsuccessful attempts as a movie writer, he was hired by DC Comics in the late 1930s as an editorial consultant.
This double degree in law and psychology born in 1893 was also the inventor of the lie detector. It was in 1941 that William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman. This idea was quickly abandoned when the second Zeppelin attempting this approach nearly overturned. This point at the top of the Empire State Building was originally intended as a docking point for airships. Thus firmly clinging to this piece of iron, Wonder Woman avoids certain death. In this issue 122 of the series, the two authors continue to imagine adventures to Wonder Woman in New York.
Under the direction of Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru, the Amazon queen achieves this feat after being chased by a flying saucer. “She is known only as Wonder Woman, but who she is, or whence she came from, nobody knows!” Presentation of Wonder Woman in All-Star Comic #8 in 1941 Wonder Woman on top of the Empire State BuildingĮighteen years after Wonder Woman‘s first appearance in the comic book universe, the reader finds her in a very bad way, hanging from the spire of the Empire State Building. She is hanging from the spire of the Empire State Building, ready to fall into the void.
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