 Later comics appearances portray him as a more independent antagonist (with an array of divergent character designs), though his origins and associations have consistently been interpolated within the Greek mythology that informs the Wonder Woman mythos.The Duke of Deception first appeared in the summer of 1942 in "Wonder Woman" volume 1, issue #1, written by Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston.A psychologist, Marston conceived many of the villains for his early Wonder Woman stories as allegories for psychological motifs.