Hard to Handle

Wonder Woman is featured on this 1978 Mark 1 and DC Comics collaboration for a little steamy come on.

With Superman raking in big bucks from the big screen, Wonder Woman was tackling the small screen. The Lynda Carter vehicle would run three seasons, 1975 to 1979, on, first ABC, then switching to CBS for seasons two and three.

Her origins date back to 1941 and All-Star Comics issue eight. The Amazon was the creation of polygraph inventor William Moulton Marston with the suggestion she be a woman by his wife, Elizabeth.

Much of her early career would be shaped by Moulton’s somewhat speculative personal life and marriage arrangement with his wife and live-in friend Olive Byrne.

Early issues featured both male and female domination situations, but any overt connotations were neutered by the Comics Code when it began to police the field.

Over the years Diana Price/Wonder Woman would be linked to some of the biggest names in DC Comics, most notably Superman and Batman, but more the Man of Steel.

Yet, her true love of decades was Steve Trevor.