Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth Holloway Marston Elizabeth Holloway Marston (February 20, 1893 – March 27, 1993) was an American attorney and psychologist. She is credited, with her husband William Moulton Marston, for the development of the systolic blood pressure measurement used to detect deception. She is also credited as the inspiration for her husband's comic book creation "Wonder Woman", a character also fashioned on their polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne. Marston was born Sadie Holloway in the Isle of Man and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of an English mother, Daisy, and William George Washington Holloway, an American bank clerk.
Wonder Woman Superman. Modern historians divide 20th century history of American superhero comics into "four ages", akin to the "Ages of Man". In an October 25, 1940, interview with the "Family Circle" magazine, William Moulton Marston discussed the unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium. This article caught the attention of comics publisher Max Gaines, who hired Marston as an educational consultant for National Periodicals and All-American Publications, two of the companies that would merge to form DC Comics. At that time, Marston wanted to create his own new superhero; Marston's wife and fellow psychologist Elizabeth suggested to him that it should