Doctor Poison

Doctor Poison is the name of two fictional characters, supervillains who appear in DC Comics publications and related media. Both villains were members of the super-villain team Villainy, Inc. and have appeared as major recurring enemies for Wonder Woman.

Depicted as a sadistic bioterrorist with a ghoulish face, the character first appeared in Sensation Comics #2 (1942) and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. The second Doctor Poison first appeared in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #151 and was created by Eric Luke and Matthew Clark.

There have been at least four different incarnations of the character since her debut: (1) the Golden Age Doctor Poison Princess Maru; (2) the unnamed Post-Crisis Doctor Poison and Maru’s granddaughter, first appearing in 1999’s Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #151; (3) the short-lived New 52 Doctor Poison, a Russian scientist known only as Dr. Maru, first appearing in 2016’s Wonder Woman (vol. 4) #48; and (4) Colonel Marina Maru, a Post-Rebirth reformulation of the character who heads an elite team of mercenaries known as "Poison", first appearing in 2017’s Wonder Woman (vol. 5) #13.

In other media

The original Princess Maru incarnation of the character made her first movie appearance in Wonder Woman (2017), played by Spanish actress Elena Anaya.^[1]

References

1. O'Hara, Helen (April 2017). "Alpha Female". Empire. pp. 60–67.

Other websites

• Doctor Poison Rapsheet
• Gay League Profile
• The Unofficial Doctor Poison Biography Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine