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Joye Hummel (1924–2021), pioneering writer for Wonder Woman comics

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Joye Hummel was the first women to write for Wonder Woman comics, writing anonymously for several years in the 1940s.Hummel wasn’t looking for a job as a comic book writer.

She was 19 years old and a recent graduate of secretarial school. But one of her instructors approached her to ask if she’d help write some stories for his comic.

He was William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator, and he had noticed while teaching Hummel that she was a good writer.

He wanted a young woman who believed in Wonder Woman’s feminist philosophy and could also write using current slang.Hummel happily took the job and wrote at least 70 scripts for Wonder Woman comics between 1944 and 1947, a time when the DC Comic already had an avid audience.

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