Superman, Batman and Spiderman have been around for decades. Can you guess how long ago super hero, Wonder Woman, put in her appearance? December 1941, yes… almost 75 years ago. WW first appeared in All Star Comics. This was a 1940s comic book series. Later the company that brought out this series merged with DC Comics. The title Wonder Woman has been published by DC Comics almost continuously.
Wonder Woman is a warrior princess of the Amazons and is known as Princess Diana of Themyscira. She’s sometimes known also as Diana Prince. At her disposal is an arsenal of weapons including the lasso of Truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets and a tiara, which serves as a projectile. The lasso forces anyone held by it to tell the absolute truth. Batman once called her “the best melee fighter in the world”. Once, the Amazing Amazon ensnared Superman with her lasso, preventing him from destroying the Washington Monument. The action hero played by Lynda Carter hasn’t starred in anything since her ‘70s TV series. Last week Hollywood announced that WW will appear on the big screen in 2016 in the movie, “Batman v. Spiderman: Dawn of Justice”.
Spider-Woman
Jessica Drew is an experienced fighter and excellent investigator. She can easily carry up to seven tons! Her father, Dr. Jonathan Drew, who was a research partner of Dr. Herbert Edgar Wyndham, injected her with untested spider serum when she suffered from uranium poisoning. Her “spider-sense” tells her the direction a threat is coming from with a high level of accuracy. Through intensive training, she learned to fight blindfolded using only her spider-sense. The original Spider-Woman returns and teams up with the newest spider on the block. This month will see her being launched directly out of Spider Verse, a brand new series for Mars.
She-Hulk
This is a Marvel Comic super hero created in 1981.Wisecracking Jennifer Walters is a highly skilled lawyer working in Los Angeles, the U.S. She once received an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin Hulk when she was wounded and that led to
her acquiring a milder version of his Hulk condition. S.H. has been a member of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and Heroes for Hire.
Captain Marvel
With a background in the military and CIA, Carol Danvers was designed to be a counterpart to Captain America. She’s not the Boy Scout he is — she’s complex, funny, mischievous and always game for a fight. Her powers include flight through the vacuum of space without a suit, a sixth sense so evolved it’s called a seventh sense. Neither Iron Man nor Captain America, nor Thor not even Hulk, pretty much no one in the Marvel cinematic universe, has a chance against her whose classic powers are more like Superman than anyone else. The film “Captain Marvel” from Disney and Marvel will arrive in 2018.
Batgirl
If Batman’s first appearance was in 1961, Batgirl’s was six years later. Barbara Gordon is a prodigy ahead of her time, an exceptional martial artist. The daughter of Gotham city’s police commissioner James Gordon, she debuted in Detective Comics #359, titled “The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!” by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino. She has fought toe-to-toe with Gotham’s unsavoury characters, and bailed out the Dark Knight many times.
A few of the other spectacular women super heroes are Hawkgirl, Supergirl, Catwoman and Elektra. Elektra is the only female superhero to have her own movie in recent years. Burka Avenger is Pak researcher Jiya and is a cartoon superwoman, not from a comic book. Runaway Girls is a group of four super-sassy teens who run away from home after they see their families murder and sacrifice an innocent girl for ritual purpose.
