Huntress
Huntress

Name: Huntress
Universe: Earth-2
Alter Ego: Helena Wayne
Occupation: Lawyer
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: Justice Society of America; Infinity, Inc.
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Known Relatives: Thomas and Martha Wayne (grandparents, deceased), Bruce Wayne (father, deceased), Selina Kyle (mother, deceased), Karl Kyle (uncle)
Height: 5 ft. 10 in.
Weight: 127 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: All-Star Comics #69

History:
Helena Wayne was the only child of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle Wayne, and grew up in the quiet household of Wayne Manor after her father's semiretirement and her mother's reformation. From birth Helena was trained to an extraordinary peak of physical and mental development, not because her parents had any special plan for her future life, but because they assumed such development was good for its own sake. At the same time she was exposed to the basics of crimefighting in stories her father told, and by watching the training he was giving his ward, Dick Grayson.

Helena completed law school at the age when most people graduate college. She was about to begin her career when two tragedies changed her life. Carnak, a former confederate of Selina Wayne's, surfaced and blackmailed Selina into one last crime. It was during this crime that Selina was killed by a bullet driven wild when Batman intervened. Bruce Wayne burned his costume at Selina's grave, and a few nights later Helena swore an oath of vengeance and became the Huntress.

The Huntress captured Carnak, and, unknown to her father, she embarked on a heroic career by joining her father's former comrades in the Justice Society of America. After Bruce donned his Batman costume one last time and laid down his life to save Gotham from a super-powered criminal, the Huntress, with the JSA, avenged Batman's death.

Now alone, the Huntress became Gotham's principal guardian and devoted far more energy to her secret identity than to her conventional career as a lawyer. Helena worked for Cranston, Grayson, and Wayne, a public-interest law firm that also counted Dick Grayson as a partner (although an inactive one). She later worked as a police department liaison officer with the district attorney. Coincidentally, Gotham D.A. Harry Sims was her lover.

Powers:
An olympic-level athlete, the Huntress is a master of many forms of physical combat, armed and unarmed, and is a skilled criminologist. She also possesses an unusual ability to pick locks and to utilize other criminal techniques.

The weapons in her arsenal include a cross-bow, dagger, and various items in her utility belt or bag. Like her father, she has never used a gun.


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