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

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Author: Murchison, Joye 1924-; Marston, William Moulton 1893-1947; All-American Publications
Subject: Marston, William Moulton 1893-1947; Murchison, Joye 1924-

Collection donated to the Dibner Library by Joye Hummel Murchison Kelly in 2014. The gift was accompanied by her letter (4 pages on 4 sheets), dated 31 May 2014, describing her recollections of working with Marston and the Wonder Woman team.; 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.
Summary: 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.

1944

1944-1948

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