Psychologist William Moulton Marston helped invent the early polygraph lie detector test in the 1920s before eventually using his obsession with truth and bondage to create the comic book hero Wonder Woman.

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Psychologist William Moulton Marston helped invent the early polygraph lie detector test in the 1920s before eventually using his obsession with truth and bondage to create the comic book hero Wonder Woman. He firmly believed that human blood pressure could reveal deception, leading directly to his creation of a magical golden lasso that completely forces supervillains to spill their darkest secrets while heavily restrained. Marston lived in a secretive polyamorous relationship with two brilliant women who massively inspired the feminist undertones of his superhero, blending his bizarre academic research with mid-century pop culture. It perfectly proves that the foundations of the comic book industry were built by incredibly weird intellectuals who successfully tricked children into reading about their highly specific psychological kinks