Joye Murchison Kelly papers relating to the Wonder Woman comic book series, 1944-1948

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Joye Murchison Kelly papers relating to the Wonder Woman comic book series, 1944-1948

1944-1948

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Papers produced and collected by Joye Murchison Kelly relating to her work with William Moulton Marston on the Wonder Woman comic book series published by All-American Publications (later DC Comics). The collection includes a typed letter signed by Marston (1 page) dated 3 March 1944 to Miss Joye Hummel; a mechanically-reproduced typescript psychology examination (2 pages on 2 sheets) given by Marston to his students at the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City on 25 January 1944; 2 account books listing work done by Kelly for Marston with the amounts she had been paid for various expenses between January 1945 and Augst 1947; and hand-annotated carbon copies of several typescript stories for the Wonder Woman Sensation comics series written by Marston and/or Kelly: 17A, 18A, 18C, 20 A, 20B, 21B, 21C, 27B, 28A, 28B, 28C, 29A, 29C, 30A, and Sensation scripts (from the Comic cavalcade series) 29, 82, and 83.

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Murchison, Joye, 1924-2021

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Joye Murchison Kelly (born Joye Hummel) was a student of psychologist William Moulton Marston at the Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan in 1944. She was hired by Marston to collaborate with him on script-writing for the Wonder Woman comic book series from 1945 to 1948. Joye was the first woman to write stories for Wonder Woman. At the time, she did not receive any recognition. She later worked as a stockbroker....