William Moulton Marston of the Boston University alumni magazine, it was the idea of Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, to create a female superhero. Marston recommended an idea for a new kind of superhero, one who would conquer not with fists or firepower, but with love. "Fine," said Elizabeth. "but make her a woman." Marston introduced the idea to Max Gaines, co-founder with Jack Liebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed Wonder Woman, basing her character on the unconventional, liberated, powerful modern women of his day. Marston's pseudonym, Charles Moulton, combined his own and Gaines's middle names. In a 1943 issue
Elizabeth Holloway Marston the polygraph test. In 1921, William received his PhD from Harvard and Marston her MA from Radcliffe. Although Marston is not listed as William's collaborator in his early work, a number of writers refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's work on her husband's deception research. She appears in a picture taken in his polygraph laboratory in the 1920s, reproduced in a 1938 publication by William. Marston's career included indexing "the documents of the first fourteen Congresses, lectur[ing] on law, ethics, and psychology at American and New York Universities, [and] serv[ing] as an editor for "Encyclopædia Britannica" and "McCall's". In 1933,