WONDER WOMAN, Continued.

Left: The diluted post-Senate hearings Wonder Woman; DC Comics #178, 1968. Right: New Wonder Woman series by Allan Heinberg; art by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson; DC Comics, 2006.

She becomes infatuated with Steve Trevor, ala Lois Lane with Superman, relinquishes her powers and discards her costume for a Mod look. However, the restoration of her powers and feminism reappeared, thanks in part, to Gloria Steinem. Outraged over the omission of her empowerment, Steinem put Wonder Woman, back in her original costume, on the cover of MS. magazine's first issue, with an accompanying article. Wonder Woman comic book #204, 1973, restored her God-Like powers and traditional costume. The most successful of all comic book heroines, she joined the Justice League of America in 1960, survived a temporary loss of super powers, and returned a Goddess, another more-than-human archetype helping to reestablish Myth and Pop Culture as a central focus of modern life.

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