Response to 11-Year-Old Girl Asking DC Comics for More Female Superheroes

Her request was simple, "I love your comics, but I would love them more if there were more girls."

Rowan, a fifth-grader from Champaign, Illinois, wrote a letter to DC Comics addressing this issue and also calling attention to the way the existing female superheroes are dressed.

It reads in part:

I remember watching Justice League cartoons when I was really young with my dad.  There are Superman and Batman movies, but not a Wonder Woman one.  You have a Flash TV show but not a Wonder Woman one.  Marvel Comics made a movie about a talking tree and raccoon awesome, but you haven't made a movie with Wonder Woman.

 

I would really like a Hawkgirl, or Catwoman or the girls of the Young Justice TV show action figures please.

 

Please do something about this.  Girls read comics too and they care.

 

 

First DC responded with this Tweet:

Then they surprised Rowan with her very own superhero!

How cool!

Wonder Woman movie details are scarce, but we do know who the lead actress will be.  Read all about it HERE.  It's slated to hit theaters June 23rd, 2017.

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