In 1960, DC Comics realized if you add popular characters together, they equal a more popular comic book. With all new versions of their staple characters like the Flash and Green Lantern, DC Comics decided to join them with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman for the juggernaut of all super-teams. Gardner Fox wrote the Justice League of America and their adventures fending off foes that each hero couldn’t handle on their own. The result was a massive success leading DC’s publisher Jack Liebowitz to brag to the Martin Goodman, the publisher of Marvel Comics. Goodman then charged write and editor Stan Lee to create Marvel’s own super-team. And well, nothing much came of that.

Campy superhero TV shows fit the 70s like well tailored spandex on a tight behind.  The New Original Adventures of Wonder Woman were nothing different.  The scantly clad feminist warrior spun into television history in 1976 with a popular live-action series running for three seasons (all available on DVD!).  Beauty contest winner and apparent actress Lynda Carter immortalized Wonder Woman, playing up the bullet proof bracelets to the unforgettable spin-transformation.  When secret identity Diana Prince needed to save the, she would spin around at super speed and in a flash of light transform into Wonder Woman.  Sure the dazzling special effects were partly a cost-cutting effort, but even laziness can make for classic TV.

Allan Heinberg gave me an exclusive interview for Gay.com in advance of his run on Wonder Woman. Here’s a little taste:

From the O.C. to the Amazon, a new scribe takes hold of the golden lasso and magic bracelets. The Amazon Princess, Wonder Woman, returns after a year of tragedy in an all-new series penned for DC Comics by Allan Heinberg, the out gay writer of such hit television shows as “The O.C.,” “Sex and the City” and “Gilmore Girls.” His “One Year Later” will chronicle the new adventures of his favorite superhero starting in June as she looks back on her annus horribilis.

“Basically, in order to save the earth, [Wonder Woman] had to essentially commit murder,” Heinberg said. “And so the world at large and the superhero community at large are very ambivalent about her.”

Her gods “have retreated from the astral plane, as have the Amazons,” he said. “She’s left all by herself, sort of orphaned and trying to decide whether or not she’s going to continue.”