Read our Privacy noticeMarvel may have one of the franchise’s biggest TV hits on its hands with its new series, Wonder Man. The eight-episode limited series, now streaming on Disney+, stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Hollywood actor Simon Williams, who’s thrust into the world of superheroes, where he gains powers of his own to become Wonder Man. Wonder Man gets it.”open image in gallery Abdul-Mateen makes his Marvel debut as Wonder Man. This new series, Wonder Man, marks both the first standalone story centered on Williams and Abdul-Mateen’s Marvel debut. “If this ends up the only Wonder Man story ever told onscreen, it’s still worth watching,” Stephen Robinson of the AV Club argued.