![]() In one event, Dinah’s husband, Larry Drake, was killed. When DC still had the multiverse, team-ups between the JLA of Earth-1 and the Justice Society of America of Earth-2 were annual events. Dinah Drake Lance jumps from Earth-2 to Earth-1 (1969). This provided Black Canary II with not only a legacy, but also mentorship and teachings from the JSA, an experience that made her unique among the new generation of heroes in the original Justice League of America.Ģ. Not only did this generational shift reverse the worst retcon ever (see below), but it made Canary a rare female legacy character, and explained her super-powered Canary cry as due to exposure to her super-powered “uncles” in the Justice Society of America. Image via DC Comics, art by Gary Frank.ĭinah Lance becomes two people: Dinah Drake Lance and Dinah Laurel Lance.ĭinah Drake is the Golden Age version whose daughter, Dinah Laurel, took up the mantle of Black Canary after DC fused its multiverse into one universe in the 1980s. Page for the first Birds of Prey miniseries, featuring Dinah Laurel Lance. (The television versions are a whole post on their own.)ġ. She’s also one of the tiny number of female heroes who’ve survived from the Golden Age to the current age of comics, to the point where she was revived along with the other Golden Age characters in the 1960s when the alternate reality, Earth-2, was first created.īut her characterization, background, history, and even identity have all changed at one point or another through various retcons and re-imaginings, of which this new version is the latest. Golden Age Black Canary was in the tradition of the classic heroines of film, played by Barbara Stanwyck and Rosalind Russell. She quickly became popular enough to join the Justice Society of America. When she first appeared, she was thought to be a villain, but ended up being undercover to catch the villains. She’s a female character with her own identity, rather than being spun off from a male superhero. I’ve been reading about Canary since at least 1975, but she’s been breaking the rules since she was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino. That’s not an easy thing to do, given her complicated history. However, the signs are there, and the killer artwork by Annie Wu and the attention to detail in the plotting and characters won me over. ![]() ![]() This new version isn’t quite the Dinah I know and love-not yet. Art by Adam Hughes, image via DC Comics.īlack Canary #1 featuring the sonic-powered heroine fronting a rock band is yet another unusual and unique turn for the heroine who’s been around since 1947.
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