it lies outside the scope of my interests and is a private legal document. d.c. comics and the marston family had very good relations, and that i think has been really important to both of them over the years. i think that elizabeth holloway martian was a bit of a challenge to them. members of her family talk about, one of her granddaughters said that it had become, marston's what it should've been there, the guys at d.c. comics would hide under their desks. she's also an attorney and should practice for a lot longer than marston had so she did very -- she took very good care of that estate. don who married margaret sanger's granddaughter, who is also older and he had to the estate. the estate was handled by marston until his death and by his would was an attorney. she died at the age of 100 the long before she died, her adopted son, don, took over the

estate. i don't know anything about the family arrangements nor is it any of my business, but certainly it has not been an adversarial acrimony situation, so far as i know, but i don't really know. >> this may be a stupid question, but what is the justice society? [laughter] >> no, it's not a stupid question. the justice society is a league of superheroes that was formed by all-american comics, which was, which the comic book company that games owned, formed in 1940, and with its own comment book called all-star comics. it was way to take superheroes that existed in other comic books, maybe had their own comic books and maybe they were, made guest appearances, and to try them out in their own comic book and see if they had any staying

power. or to reward superheroes that a big following by bringing them in. it was just a gimmick, but they are a little bit like the league of nations. they are modeled on these international cooperative bodies. superman and batman are kind of honorary members, and wonder woman is elected as a member in 1942. stories involving th the justice league or publish an all-star comics are not written by the guys who write the books that those characters regularly appear in. they are written by gardner fox, most of the marston had no control over what happened to wonder woman when she entered the justice aside and she was in those stores. gardner fox was not as interested in wonder woman many towns and decided the role of the only thing a member of the justice society would be that she should be a secretary. >> so the question was one should wonder woman did and

batman versus superman dawn of justice? let us hope that she is not the secretary. thanks very much. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] >> every weekend, tv brings you 40 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more

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