Joye Hummel, the first woman to write Wonder Woman comics, died on April 5, 2021 a day after turning 97 years old.

Hummel was a ghostwriter on Wonder Woman issues that were attributed to William Moulton Marston in the mid-1940s. Not only was she the first woman to write Wonder Woman, she was also the second woman to write for DC.

She was born April 4, 1924. Hummel started working with Marston in 1944 after she took a psychology class with him. At the age of 19, she started working in comics on Wonder Woman #12 and would write 70 issues through 1947.

After Marston’s death, DC hired Robert Kanigher to write the title and Hummel retired from writing comics. In 2018, she received the Bill Finger Award at Comic-Con International.