Carol A. Strickland
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Carol A. Strickland is an American fiction writer, pop culture scholar, and comics fan.
While she is less well-known than influential Wonder Woman fans like Gloria Steinem and Trina Robbins, her scholarship on the DC Comics series, especially those action series known for high appeal to female audiences, has made her something of a grande dame of DC superhero fandom.
Her unofficial background work on Wonder Woman includes:
- Detailed criticism of the history of the character, and of Wonder Woman's visual presentation as a female character usually drawn by men;
- A proposed (but not accepted) revision of Wonder Woman rooted more heavily in ancient mythology;
- Wonder Girl and "Impossible Family" proto-fanon; more "personal canon" than fanon, but then Wonder Woman’s official continuity has changed so often that the canon lacks even the necessary substrate of consistency upon which a fanon can be based.
She designed a costume for the Legion of Super-Heroes character Light Lass in the 1970s, which was adopted and used in the series by the artist Dave Cockrum[1].
