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
William Moulton Marston Marston had written many articles and books on various psychological topics, but his last six years of writing were devoted to his comics creation. William Moulton Marston died of cancer on May 2, 1947, in Rye, New York, seven days shy of his 54th birthday. After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death in 1985, aged 81; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100. In 1985, Marston was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication "Fifty Who Made DC Great". William Moulton Marston's philosophy of diametric opposites