Hypnota Hypnota Hypnota the Great (; a.k.a. Hypnotic Woman) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess who battled the Golden Age Wonder Woman and was a member of Villainy Inc., an enemy team. She first appeared in the comic "Wonder Woman" (Vol. 1) #11 and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. A stage magician who conceals her gender via masculine costume and false facial hair, Hypnota was accidentally shot in the head during the rehearsal of one of her act's illusions. Experimental surgery saved her life, but it also released a "blue electric ray of dominance"
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,