Waiting for a Superhero MD-2026 " 180 feet above the

" 180 feet above the Rotunda floor

The original ball was five feet in diameter

who created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- before closing in 1964 and being converted into office and retail space

Waiting for a Superhero MD-2026 " 180 feet above theA superhero sits in a movie theater, biding her time until she can leap onto the silver screen for long awaited glory. Artist Ben Wiseman was the creative force behind this illustration published with Waiting for Wonder Woman, a Times Sunday Review article on December 21, 2013. Illustrations have played an instrumental role in The Timess journalistic legacy since December 11, 1861, when we published our first drawings front page cartoons of James