The Seattle Times profiles Wonder Woman, who turns 65 this year. To get an idea where the character stands, the newspaper talks to academics, and comic creators Phil Jimenez and Allan Heinberg.
“[Wonder Woman] stands as the pre-eminent superheroine, just as Superman does for the super-powered hero and Batman for the nonpowered hero,” says Peter Coogan, author of Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre. “Without her, the genre might have followed the pulp hero and the Western as a wholly male domain.”
