Purple Ray Purple Ray The Purple Ray, created by William Moulton Marston and featured in Wonder Woman comics, is a fictional healing device that brought a person back from the dead. Prior to the comic book storyline "Crisis on Infinite Earths", Diana invented the Purple Ray in order to heal Steve Trevor from injuries he sustained when his plane was shot down and he was left adrift in the sea for days. The Purple Ray was an all-around healing device. Variations on the concept survived into Earth-1, post-Crisis, post-Zero Hour and post Infinite Crisis continuities. Once it was used to revive the
Portrayal of women in American comics interview conducted by former student Olive Byrne (under the pseudonym 'Olive Richard') and published in "Family Circle", titled "Don't Laugh at the Comics", William Moulton Marston described what he saw as the great educational potential of comic books (a follow up article was published two years later in 1942.) 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 the future DC Comics. At that time, Marston decided to develop a new superhero. In the early 1940s the